Smart Choice Moosa Stadium, private cricket stadium in Pearland, Texas, US
Smart Choice Moosa Stadium is a cricket facility in Pearland, Texas, with five fields built to international standards, a main grass pitch, and floodlights for evening play. The site also has practice areas, spectator seating, changing rooms, showers, and player recovery areas including ice baths.
The ground was built between 2013 and 2015 by Sakhi Muhammad and was the first privately owned cricket facility in the United States. In 2022, the International Cricket Council officially recognised it as a venue for One Day International matches, making it only the second stadium in the country to receive that status.
The stadium is named after the father of Smart Choice founder Sakhi Muhammad, making it a personal tribute rather than a corporate name. On match days, the ground draws large crowds from the South Asian community around Houston, for whom cricket is a central part of daily social life.
The ground sits south of Houston near Highway 288, and a car is the most practical way to get there since public transport connections are limited. Arriving early on match days is a good idea, as parking areas can fill up quickly when large crowds attend.
In 2015, this ground hosted the United States' first international cricket matches, played against Canada, before the venue had received any official international status. During the 2022 ODI series, a new individual scoring record of 130 runs was set here, along with the best bowling figures ever recorded in a US cricket match at that point.
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