M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Cricket field in Bangalore, India

M. Chinnaswamy Stadium is an oval cricket ground in central Bengaluru, beside Cubbon Park and Queen's Road. A tan earth pitch sits at its centre, ringed by a low boundary wall with a yellow and black band and tiered yellow and red seating. Two lattice floodlight towers rise above the roofline, and the ground has 40,000 seats.

The ground opened in 1969 and hosted its first test match in 1974 between India and the West Indies. Over the following decades, the facility underwent several expansions and upgrades to meet international standards.

The stadium is named after M. Chinnaswamy, a Mandya-born lawyer and founding member of the Mysore State Cricket Association who served the KSCA for four decades and was BCCI president from 1977 to 1980. The ground was painted in red and yellow, the colours of the Royal Challengers and of the Karnataka flag. It hosted the 1996 Miss World pageant, the first held in India.

The nearest metro stop at Cubbon Park sits within walking distance and provides direct access to the grounds. During major matches, arriving early helps avoid crowding around the entrance gates as streets fill quickly.

The solar installation was a ₹4.5 crore, 400 KW project begun by the KSCA in February 2015, inspired by the solar-powered Freiburg football stadium in Germany. The KSCA calls it the world's only solar-powered cricket stadium. A water purification plant followed in 2016, and by January 2017 an aeration and drainage system was in place to prevent wet-outfield delays.