Sydney Cricket Ground: cricket results and records

Sydney Cricket Ground appears in 176 recorded matches, the first on 2 January 2003 and the latest on 15 February 2026. The matches are 79 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 49 in One Day Internationals, 25 in Test matches and 23 in Twenty20 Internationals. The competitions seen most often are Big Bash League (70 matches), India tour of Australia (11 matches) and VB Series (10 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Australia (88 matches), Sydney Sixers (77 matches), India (26 matches) and England (20 matches).

Of the 176 matches, 157 produced a winner, 7 were drawn, 4 were tied and 8 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 705/7 by India against Australia on 2 January 2004.

The lowest completed total is 61 by Melbourne Stars against Sydney Sixers on 5 December 2021.

In the 139 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 76 (54.7%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are SPD Smith (3,184 runs in 60 innings), DA Warner (2,202 runs in 49 innings), MJ Clarke (1,709 runs in 42 innings), RT Ponting (1,662 runs in 40 innings) and ML Hayden (1,352 runs in 30 innings).

The leading wicket takers are SA Abbott (94 wickets), JR Hazlewood (72 wickets), B Lee (71 wickets), NM Lyon (68 wickets) and MA Starc (66 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 329* by MJ Clarke against India on 3 January 2012, 241* by SR Tendulkar against Australia on 2 January 2004 and 215 by M Labuschagne against New Zealand on 3 January 2020.

The best bowling figures are 8 for 141 by A Kumble against Australia on 2 January 2004, 7 for 94 by AR Caddick against Australia on 2 January 2003 and 6 for 41 by Mohammad Asif against Australia on 3 January 2010.

The first innings of 25 Test matches matches here averaged 382.4 runs.

In 47 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 275.5 and the side batting second 217.1.

In 23 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 163.7 and the side batting second 129.3.

In 76 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 157.8 and the side batting second 138.7.

The toss is recorded in 176 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 73 (41.5%) and to bat in 103.

Among the 157 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 82 times (52.2%).

Batters at the ground hit 7,606 fours and 1,355 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 10.9 balls; 50.0% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 62%, bowled 17%, lbw 9%, run out 6% and caught and bowled 3% of the 2,713 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 67%, bowled 18%, lbw 9%, caught and bowled 3% and stumped 3% of the 2,532 times.

That is 50.9 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2000s (30), 2010s (82) and 2020s (64).

The competitions that have used the ground are Big Bash League (70 matches), India tour of Australia (11 matches), VB Series (10 matches), Women's Big Bash League (9 matches), Commonwealth Bank Series (8 matches), ICC Men's T20 World Cup (7 matches), The Ashes (4 matches) and ICC Cricket World Cup (4 matches).