The stadium is equipped with 9 playing pitches and full length boundary as per international dimensions, flood lights for night matches, practice ground and practice facility including indoor training centre, swimming pools, sauna bath, modern gym, dressing rooms for teams, match officials, anti doping requirements etc., washrooms with facilities like Jacuzzi tech., conference rooms, media rooms and 30 corporate boxes.
[2] [3][4] The stadium is situated at Shankargarh, Magnet City in Gwalior West on Mumbai Agra Highway.
[5] This stadium has been named after Madhavrao Scindia who was the BCCI president and Union Minister for Railways and Civil Aviation in the Government of India under PV Narasimha Rao's cabinet.
He was a member of the Indian National Congress, and was the son of Jiwajirao Scindia, the last ruling Maharaja of the erstwhile Gwalior State.
This stadium will host the opening T20I between India and Bangladesh scheduled on October 6, thus marking the inaugural international fixture at the city's new stadium, first in the city since the historic India-South Africa ODI in 2010, where Sachin Tendulkar became the first cricketer to score a double century in ODIs.