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Description:

The Dhyan Chand National Stadium is a field hockey stadium located near India Gate,New Delhi. It holds 25,000 people. It is named after former famous Indian field hockey player, Dhyan Chand.The national stadium is also well known for its Cricket coaching. The Dronacharya Award winner for Cricket, Sunita Sharma coaches cricket at this facility. It is also the venue for the 2010 Boxing Cup. It also served as the venue for the 1st Asian Games in 1951.

Tthe stadium has been used as a hosting ground of various rallies, marathons and march past held in Delhi. The national stadium is also well known for its Cricket coaching.

This stadium will host the Field Hockey event during the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

The Dhyan Chand National Stadium has many modern facilities like synthetics surface, electronic scoreboard, change room, 100-seated air-conditioned conference room and VIPS. Lounge.
With India as the hosts, the venue has also been chosen to organize the 2010 Hockey World Cup.

The Dhyan Chand National Stadium is only 3 km away from the Commonwealth Games Village. This Stadium is well connected to the Games village and other venues by roads. Very shortly, Delhi Metro is going to extend its network to connect major venues of The Commonwealth Games with Dhyan Chand National Stadium.The stadium often referred to as the “temple of Indian hockey”. The Dhyan Chand National Stadium, which is going to serve as one of the venues of the sporting events in the commonwealth games 2010.