This Is Why One Seat At Eden Park Is Painted Green While All Others Are In Grey

When one runs his or her eyes across the seating arrangement at the Eden Park in Auckland, a green seat surrounded by thousands of grey seats is bound to catch the attention. In the entire stadium, all but one seats are painted with grey colour. That remaining one seat is painted in green colour and that is not a mistake by the workers who painted the stands.

The cameras showed the seat on Friday too when India locked horns against New Zealand in the first T20I. Well, that particular seat holds a very special place in the history of New Zealand cricket. It is the same seat where Grant Elliott’s famous six landed during the 2015 World Cup semifinal. The former New Zealand batsman hit the six when his side needed 5 runs from 2 balls against South Africa.

Elliott dispatched the legendary Dale Steyn for the maximum to power the Black Caps to their first-ever World Cup final where they lost to Australia. And later, the Eden Park management decided to paint the seat green where that famous six landed. Last year, the Eden Park management and The New Zealand Herald joined hands to find out the seat and they eventually found out that it was Seat 12, row T, section 318.

The stadium’s management decided to immortalize the spot as the Grant Elliot Seat. The management also placed a plaque below it that reads:

“Here Lies the Resting Place of Grant Elliott’s Mighty Six That Propelled the Blackcaps on March 24, 2015 into their maiden World Cup Final”.

A memorable start at Eden Park:

India, meanwhile, beat New Zealand by six wickets at the Eden Park to take the lead in the five-match series. Asked to bat first, the hosts scored 203 for 5 in the allotted 20 overs with Colin Munro, Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor scoring fifties.

In reply, India chased down the total with an over to spare. KL Rahul set the platform for the chase with a fifty before Shreyas Iyer took the team over the line by playing an unbeaten knock of 58 from just 29 balls.

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