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The Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium formerly the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium, is a cricket stadium located at Gahunje near Pimpri-Chinchwad, India. It served as the home stadium for the Maharashtra cricket team including headquarters for the Maharashtra Cricket Association and Indian Premier League team Pune Warriors India now defunct. With India having the largest cricket audience in the world and Indian influence in international cricket growing, the MCA decided a new stadium was needed. Hopkins Architects of London was commissioned to design a new 36,000 seat stadium in Pune and the stadium was the result. The MCA Stadium was inaugurated in April 2012 and the first match was played between Kings XI Punjab and Pune Warriors in April 2012. The first 20-20 International match at the stadium was played between India and England in December 2012. ==History== The MCA's decision to build a new Cricket stadium in Pune near apurva karta of karve nagar stemmed from a dispute with the Pune Municipal Corporation, regarding ticket allocations for Nehru Stadium. This conflict came to a head when an international match between India and Sri Lanka was moved to Kolkata, with the MCA stating they were in no position to host the match. Following this, the MCA decided a new stadium was needed. MCA Pune was inaugurated by the then ICC President and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on 1 April 2012. In 2013, the Indian company Sahara India Pariwar bought the naming rights and the stadium was renamed the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium. However, the name was changed back to the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium because Sahara paid only a part of the Rs. 200 crore that it had promised when acquiring the rights.〔(Naming rights tussle: Sahara stadium to go by ‘MCA’ name ). Indian Express (2013-09-12). Retrieved on 2013-12-23.〕 In November 2015, the stadium was selected one of the six new Test venue along with Holkar Stadium, JSCA International Stadium Complex, Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium and Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in India.〔 (BCCI revamps selection committee, announces new Test centres )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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