--- title: "Cricket Database: One Name for Each Ground, After Venue Names Were Standardised on 5,145 Older Matches" slug: cricket-venue-names-standardised-nov2026 date_published: 2026-11-05T03:13:00.000Z original_url: https://www.tigzig.com/post/cricket-venue-names-standardised-nov2026 source: fresh processed_at: 2026-11-05T03:13:00.000Z --- # Cricket Database: One Name for Each Ground, After Venue Names Were Standardised on 5,145 Older Matches Cricsheet has standardized venue names across its whole archive. The same ground used to appear under several spellings, so a query for Eden Gardens or the Gabba missed part of the record. On 4 Nov the cricket database picked up the new names, on 5,145 older matches. The count of distinct venue names went from 609 to 382. Every major ground now has one name across all formats. Eden Gardens is "Eden Gardens, Kolkata" on all 152 matches. "Kennington Oval" and "The Oval" are now one ground. The three spellings of the Gabba are now "Brisbane Cricket Ground". The same holds for Lord's, the MCG, the SCG, Wankhede, Chepauk, Dubai, Sharjah and the other big grounds. Grounds that share a name are now told apart by the city. "County Ground" is Bristol or Northampton, and "National Stadium" is Karachi or Hamilton. In the older names these sat together under one label. A few grounds still appear under two names, and each split follows a real rename on a date. Older matches keep the name the ground had at the time. Chinnaswamy is Bangalore up to 2014 and Bengaluru after. Feroz Shah Kotla became Arun Jaitley Stadium in 2019. Port Elizabeth became Gqeberha, and Chittagong became Chattogram. If you want one ground across its whole history, include both names in your filter. Nothing else in the match details changed. The names are cricsheet's, as published, and the database takes them as they come. 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