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The '''National Sports Council of Assam Ground''', also known as the '''National Sports Council of Assam Stadium''', is a former [[first-class cricket]] ground in [[Jorhat]], Assam.

==First-class matches==
Ten first-class matches were played at the ground between 1953 and 1974, eight of them by [[Assam cricket team|Assam]] in the [[Ranji Trophy]]. In all ten matches the home team lost. There were many low innings totals and some notable bowling figures.

===1953–54===
*[[Commonwealth XI cricket team|Commonwealth XI]] 393 for 7 declared defeated Assam Governor's XI 121 and 151.
[[Paul Gibb]] made 154, which remained the highest score on the ground. He and [[Ken Meuleman]] (79) put on 211 for the first wicket.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/20/20927.html| title = Assam Governor's XI v Commonwealth XI 1953–54| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>

===1954–55===
*[[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]] 81 and 107 defeated Assam 53 and 89.
[[S.K. Girdhari]] took six wickets in each innings for Assam and [[Bimal Bose]] took six in each innings for Bihar. Bose's 12 for 47 remained the best match figures on the ground; Girdhari took 12 for 66. Girdhari also top-scored for Assam in each innings, with 14 and 46.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/21/21370.html| title = Assam v Bihar 1954–55| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>

===1956–57===
*[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]] 505 defeated Assam 54 and 245.
[[Premangsu Chatterjee]] took 10 for 20 for Bengal in the first innings, which remain the best first-class figures ever taken outside England and Wales. [[Dattu Phadkar]] took 7 for 65 in Assam's second innings. For Assam, S.K. Girdhari took 7 for 157, Assam's best figures on the ground, and made 100, Assam's only century on the ground.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22337.html| title = Assam v Bengal 1956–57| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>

===1958–59===
*Bengal 164 and 151 for 6 declared defeated Assam 68 and 60.
In his first first-class match, [[Jyoti Dutta]] took 7 for 18 and 3 for 21 for Bengal.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23237.html| title = Assam v Bengal 1958–59| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>
*[[East Zone cricket team|East Zone]] 106 and 39 lost to [[West Indies cricket team|West Indians]] 162.
[[Wes Hall]] took 7 for 54 in the first innings, [[Eric Atkinson]] 6 for 10 in the second.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23301.html| title = East Zone v West Indians 1958–59| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>

===1966–67===
*Assam 53 and 148 lost to Bengal 346 for 8 declared.
[[Jiban Ghosh (cricketer, born 1946)|Jiban Ghosh]] took 7 for 15 in Assam's first innings. [[Pankaj Roy]] made 140 for Bengal.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/28/28588.html| title = Assam v Bengal 1966–67| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>
*Assam 86 and 125 lost to Bihar 261.
[[Anand Shukla]] took 5 for 14 and 5 for 36.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/28/28593.html| title = Assam v Bihar 1966–67| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>
*The match scheduled for the ground between [[Orissa cricket team|Orissa]] and Assam could not be played as Orissa were unable to get to Jorhat.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/28/28553.html| title = Assam v Orissa 1966–67| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>

===1974–75===
*Orissa 150 and 140 for 7 declared defeated Assam 62 and 111.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/34/34799.html| title = Assam v Orissa 1974–75| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>
*Bihar 155 and 308 defeated Assam 56 and 88.
Anand Shukla took 5 for 15 and 2 for 26, giving him 17 for 91 in two matches on the ground.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/34/34816.html| title = Assam v Bihar 1974–75| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>
*Bengal 350 for 6 declared defeated Assam 35 and 33.
[[Ambar Roy]] made 126. [[Dilip Doshi]] took 6 for 6 in Assam's first innings; [[Aloke Bhattacharjee]] took 7 for 7 in the second innings, for match figures of 12.2–6–11–10. For Assam, [[Nandan Bezbarua]] top-scored in each innings with 11 and 8 not out; he [[Carry the bat|carried his bat]] in the second innings.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/34/34829.html| title = Assam v Bengal 1974–75| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>

===Statistics===
In the eight Ranji Trophy matches, Assam scored 1366 runs for the loss of 159 wickets, at an average of 8.59 runs per wicket. Assam's opponents scored 2718 runs for 106 wickets at an average of 25.64.

==The ground==
[[Sujit Mukherjee]], who was in the Bihar squad in December 1954 but did not play in the match, described the ground:
<blockquote>The cricket ground was a winsomely green oval surrounded by grass banks and large leafy trees. Because of the trees, playing hours were set between nine-thirty and four-thirty, otherwise long shadows overcast the wicket. Until nearly nine in the morning the ground would be shrouded in mist; then it suddenly dispersed and the arena was bathed in sunlight like the stage of an amphitheatre.<ref>Sujit Mukherjee, ''Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer'', Ravi Dayal, Delhi, 1996, p. 93.</ref></blockquote>

==Assam home grounds==
Assam had previously played a Ranji Trophy match in Jorhat in 1949–50 on the Conamara Ground.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/0/17/First-Class_Matches.html| title = First-class matches played by Assam| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref> Since 1974–75 no matches have been held in Jorhat, although a number of other centres in the state have hosted matches from time to time. Most of Assam's games are now staged in the state's largest city, [[Guwahati]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/14/1070.html National Sports Council of Assam Ground, Jorhat] at CricketArchive

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