Sharjah Cricket Stadium

Sharjah Cricket Stadium records at a glance

At Sharjah Cricket Stadium, the highest Test team total is 690 by New Zealand in 2014; the highest individual score is 202 by Brendon McCullum in 2014; the highest successful chase is 302/5 by Pakistan in 2014.

At Sharjah Cricket Stadium, the highest ODI team total is 364/7 by Pakistan in 2014; the highest individual score is 189 by Sanath Jayasuriya in 2000; the highest successful chase is 285/4 by West Indies in 1993.

About Sharjah Cricket Stadium

By Vishal Jaiswal · Published 19 September 2026 · Updated 24 September 2026

No ground in the archive has staged more one-day internationals than Sharjah, with 249. The stadium was built in the desert in the early 1980s by the businessman Abdul Rahman Bukhatir and staged its first ODI during the 1984 Asia Cup. Through the late 1980s and the 1990s its tournaments, played in front of large expatriate crowds from India and Pakistan, made it the busiest one-day venue in the world: 108 of its ODIs came in the 1990s alone. Pakistan have played here 126 times, far more than anyone. Wasim Akram's 122 ODI wickets and Inzamam-ul-Haq's 2,464 runs are ground records, and Sachin Tendulkar's two hundreds against Australia in April 1998 are among the best-remembered one-day innings played anywhere. Sharjah has also staged nine Tests, the first in 2002, when Pakistan played the West Indies there as a neutral home. Pakistan's 364 for 7 against New Zealand in 2014 is the highest one-day total at the ground.

Sharjah Cricket Stadium in numbers

Sharjah Cricket Stadium, in Sharjah, the UAE, has staged 9 Tests and 249 one-day internationals in CricArcade's archives. The first was an ODI between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 1984, and the most recent international here was in 2024. The scorecards know it by 2 names: Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium (1984 to 2012) and Sharjah Cricket Stadium (2011 to 2024).

Tests at Sharjah Cricket Stadium

9 Tests, 2002 to 2016. The first was Pakistan v West Indies on 31 January 2002: Pakistan won by 170 runs.

First-innings totals by decade

ODIs at Sharjah Cricket Stadium

249 ODIs, 1984 to 2024. The first was Pakistan v Sri Lanka on 6 April 1984: Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets (with 15 balls remaining).

First-innings totals by decade

Closest finishes

• South Africa won by 1 run (2013)
• Afghanistan won by 1 run (2010)
• Match tied (1999)
• Match tied (1996)
• New Zealand won by 2 runs (1994)
• Pakistan won by 1 run (1991)

Most recent matches

• Afghanistan v Ireland (ODI, 12 March 2024): Afghanistan won by 117 runs
• Afghanistan v Ireland (ODI, 7 March 2024): Afghanistan won by 35 runs
• United Arab Emirates v West Indies (ODI, 9 June 2023): West Indies won by 4 wickets (with 89 balls remaining)
• West Indies v United Arab Emirates (ODI, 6 June 2023): West Indies won by 78 runs
• United Arab Emirates v West Indies (ODI, 4 June 2023): West Indies won by 7 wickets (with 88 balls remaining)
• Papua New Guinea v Nepal (ODI, 16 March 2022): Nepal won by 2 wickets (with 4 balls remaining)
• Papua New Guinea v United Arab Emirates (ODI, 15 March 2022): United Arab Emirates won by 7 wickets (with 33 balls remaining)
• United Arab Emirates v Namibia (ODI, 12 March 2022): United Arab Emirates won by 43 runs
• Namibia v Oman (ODI, 11 March 2022): Oman won by 7 wickets (with 23 balls remaining)
• United States v Scotland (ODI, 9 December 2019): United States won by 35 runs

Names in the scorecards

Grounds are renamed and sponsors change; the archive keeps the name each scorecard used. This page brings them together as one ground.