National Stadium (Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town)

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The National Stadium is a cricket stadium in Karachi. It is home to Pakistan's national and Karachi's domestic cricket teams. It has a capacity of 40,000. It has been widely criticised that a city with a population of 15 million people has a small capacity stadium like this. There have been recent proposals to expand its seating capacity to 50,000.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Stadium,_Karachi
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Coordinates:   24°53'43"N   67°4'53"E

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  • Karachi, Pakistan's largest and most populous city, presents an interesting and colourful combination of the old and new. The National Stadium became Karachi's fifth and Pakistan's 11th first-class ground. The inaugural first-class match was played at NSK between Pakistan and India on April 21-24, 1955, and it became a fortress of Pakistan cricket. In 34 Tests between that first match and December 2000, Pakistan won 17 and were never beaten. Their only Test defeat on the ground came in the gloom against England in 2000-01. The first ODI at the National Stadium was against West Indies on November 21, 1980, and it went down to the last ball as Gordon Greenidge drove Imran imperiously to the cover boundary with three needed. It also staged a quarter-final match in the 1996-97 World Cup. The stadium is able to hold over 40,000 spectators, making it the second largest stadium in Pakistan after Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. However, taking Karachi's size (about 15 million) into consideration, the National Stadium is considered too small by many locals. Other cities of similar size in cricketing nations such as Kolkata or Melbourne have much larger stadiums. There have been numerous plans to increase the capacity of the stadium
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