MUMBAI: Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s well-known 2011 World Cup-winning six, etched within the reminiscence of all Indian cricket enthusiasts, is ready to search out its everlasting position within the Wankhede Stadium,
At a gathering of its Apex Council on Monday, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) determined to make a ‘memorial’ on the spot within the stands at the back of long-on, the place the ball fell after Dhoni hit Sri Lankan pacer Nuwan Kulasekara for the utmost to seal India’s triumph on April 2, 2011.
The MCA will even felicitate the mythical India captain on Saturday when the Mumbai Indians play Chennai Super Kings on the Wankhede in an IPL 2023 sport.
“We are making plans to make a small memorial on the spot the place Dhoni’s 2011 World Cup-winning six landed. No one is aware of the precise seat the place that shot landed, so we’re going to perhaps block 3-4 seats in that ‘tentative house’ within the stands completely for the memorial. We’ve were given a design and a construction in thoughts and it will have to be in a position by the point we host the ODI World Cup in October-November. The concept was once proposed through me, seconded through Ajinkya Naik (MCA secretary) and handed through the Apex Council. We will finalize the entirety quickly,” MCA president Amol Kale told TOI.
“We’re additionally making plans to felicitate Dhoni through presenting a souvenir to him on Sunday, when MI play CSK,” Kale added.
The concept was once first mooted through Naik in August 2020.
Stadiums in India and around the globe have devoted stands within the names of legends. The Wankhede Stadium has stands named after Sunil Gavaskar, Vijay Merchant and Sachin Tendulkar, whose life-sized statue too is ready to return up within the premises of the venue. Dhoni additionally has a complete pavilion named after him on the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) stadium in Ranchi. This will, alternatively, be the primary time {that a} memorial has been constructed for an individual for a particular shot that he/she hit.
New Zealand Cricket venerated Grand Elliot through naming a seat after him on the Eden Park in Auckland, the place the South Africa-born hit a six off Dale Steyn to assist safe the Black Caps’ first-ever World Cup ultimate look in 2015. In Australia, a seat was once painted yellow on the famed Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1993 to commemorate Simon O’Donnell’s 122-metre six for Victoria over New South Wales.
At a gathering of its Apex Council on Monday, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) determined to make a ‘memorial’ on the spot within the stands at the back of long-on, the place the ball fell after Dhoni hit Sri Lankan pacer Nuwan Kulasekara for the utmost to seal India’s triumph on April 2, 2011.
The MCA will even felicitate the mythical India captain on Saturday when the Mumbai Indians play Chennai Super Kings on the Wankhede in an IPL 2023 sport.
“We are making plans to make a small memorial on the spot the place Dhoni’s 2011 World Cup-winning six landed. No one is aware of the precise seat the place that shot landed, so we’re going to perhaps block 3-4 seats in that ‘tentative house’ within the stands completely for the memorial. We’ve were given a design and a construction in thoughts and it will have to be in a position by the point we host the ODI World Cup in October-November. The concept was once proposed through me, seconded through Ajinkya Naik (MCA secretary) and handed through the Apex Council. We will finalize the entirety quickly,” MCA president Amol Kale told TOI.
“We’re additionally making plans to felicitate Dhoni through presenting a souvenir to him on Sunday, when MI play CSK,” Kale added.
The concept was once first mooted through Naik in August 2020.
Stadiums in India and around the globe have devoted stands within the names of legends. The Wankhede Stadium has stands named after Sunil Gavaskar, Vijay Merchant and Sachin Tendulkar, whose life-sized statue too is ready to return up within the premises of the venue. Dhoni additionally has a complete pavilion named after him on the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) stadium in Ranchi. This will, alternatively, be the primary time {that a} memorial has been constructed for an individual for a particular shot that he/she hit.
New Zealand Cricket venerated Grand Elliot through naming a seat after him on the Eden Park in Auckland, the place the South Africa-born hit a six off Dale Steyn to assist safe the Black Caps’ first-ever World Cup ultimate look in 2015. In Australia, a seat was once painted yellow on the famed Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1993 to commemorate Simon O’Donnell’s 122-metre six for Victoria over New South Wales.