For a really long time now, Vizag has been one of the underrated venues in the Indian cricket team scene. Despite having a good infrastructure, not much effort went into making the Vizag international Stadium a true destination for Cricket lovers.
But things started to change quickly after the onset of the NDA government in Andhra Pradesh as Lokesh took special interest in developing the Cricket infrastructure. Lokesh personally interacted with that BCCI president and current ICC chairman Jay Shah extensively to expand Cricket operations in Vizag.
This originally started with the hosting of the IPL games(Delhi Capitals games) in Vizag and this slowly expanded into International Cricket now.
The best thing here is that the Vizag Stadium hosted the best game of the ongoing women’s cricket