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• 1982 Gujarat allots the land at Motera Ahmedabad, India The state government granted 50 acres on the bank of the Sabarmati to the Gujarat Cricket Association, which raised the money and built the ground in nine months.
• 1983 Sardar Patel Stadium opens Ahmedabad, India The Motera ground, built in nine months and holding 49,000. It saw Sunil Gavaskar's 10,000th Test run and Kapil Dev's record-breaking 432nd wicket.
• 1983 The first Test at Motera Ahmedabad, India India played the West Indies in the ground's first Test, in a season that had begun with India winning the World Cup at Lord's.
• 1986 The first one-day international Ahmedabad, India Motera began hosting limited-overs cricket, a format India had adopted with an enthusiasm the rest of the world took years to match.
• 1987 Gavaskar's ten thousandth run Ahmedabad, India Sunil Gavaskar became the first batsman in history to reach 10,000 runs in Test cricket, on the old Motera ground.
• 1994 Kapil Dev's record wicket Ahmedabad, India Kapil Dev took his 432nd Test wicket here, passing Richard Hadlee to become the leading wicket-taker in Test history.
• 1996 World Cup matches Ahmedabad, India The ground hosted fixtures in the tournament co-hosted by India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the second World Cup held in the subcontinent.
• 1999 Sachin Tendulkar's double century Ahmedabad, India Tendulkar made 217 against New Zealand at Motera, his first Test double hundred.
• 2006 A pitch rated poor Ahmedabad, India An ODI against England was played on a surface the match referee criticised, part of a run of complaints that led to relaying the square.
• 2009 The record partnership Ahmedabad, India Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene and Thilan Samaraweera put on 351 for the fourth wicket against India, the highest stand ever made at the ground.
• 2011 World Cup quarter-final Ahmedabad, India India beat Australia at Motera to reach the semi-finals, on the way to winning the World Cup at home — the last international the old ground would stage in a global tournament.
• 2015 The rebuild is announced Ahmedabad, India The Gujarat Cricket Association, then led by Narendra Modi as president, approved demolishing the ground entirely rather than expanding it.
• 2016 Sardar Patel Stadium demolished Ahmedabad, India Pulled down entirely rather than expanded, to make room for a stadium more than twice its size on the same site.
• 2017 Construction begins Ahmedabad, India Populous designed a circular bowl with no columns and 76 corporate boxes, on a footprint more than twice that of the stadium it replaced.
• 2020 Namaste Trump Ahmedabad, India The rebuilt stadium's first major event was a political rally for the visiting American president, attended by well over 100,000 people, held before any cricket was played on it.
• 2020 Narendra Modi Stadium opens Ahmedabad, India The largest stadium in the world, holding 132,000 — more than the Rungrado in Pyongyang and 24,000 more than Michigan Stadium. Built on the site of the Motera ground it replaced.
• 2020 The largest cricket ground in the world opens Ahmedabad, India At 132,000 seats it passed the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which had held the record for decades, and became the largest stadium of any kind.
• 2021 Axar Patel's eleven wickets Ahmedabad, India In only his second Test, Axar Patel took 11 wickets in the day-night match, the best figures recorded at the ground.
• 2021 Renamed, and a Test that lasted two days Ahmedabad, India The ground was renamed from Sardar Patel Stadium during a day-night Test against England that finished inside two days on a turning pitch, one of the shortest completed Tests in modern history.
• 2021 The pink-ball Test that lasted two days Ahmedabad, India India beat England inside five sessions on a turning pitch, the shortest completed Test in India's history and one of the shortest anywhere since 1935.
• 2021 The renaming Ahmedabad, India The stadium was renamed from Sardar Patel to Narendra Modi during a ceremony attended by the president, while the wider complex kept the Sardar Patel name.
• 2022 The IPL final Ahmedabad, India Gujarat Titans won the Indian Premier League in their first season, in a final played at their home ground in front of over 100,000.
• 2023 Cricket World Cup final Ahmedabad, India Australia beat India by six wickets in front of 92,453 — the largest crowd ever to watch a cricket match.
• 2023 India play Pakistan in the World Cup Ahmedabad, India A group match drew a crowd of over 130,000, the largest ever to watch a cricket match, in a fixture the two countries no longer play in bilateral series.
• 2023 The Border-Gavaskar Test and two prime ministers Ahmedabad, India India and Australia played a Test attended by Narendra Modi and Anthony Albanese, who were driven around the boundary in a chariot before play.
• 2023 The World Cup final Ahmedabad, India Australia beat India by six wickets in front of 92,453, ending India's unbeaten run in the tournament in the last match.
• 2024 Coldplay and the concert business Ahmedabad, India The stadium began hosting large-scale concerts, using a capacity no indoor venue in India could approach.
• 2025 Part of a wider Olympic bid Ahmedabad, India The ground was placed at the centre of the Sardar Patel Sports Enclave, built to support Ahmedabad's candidacy to host the 2036 Olympic Games.