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Sunil Gavaskar Honored With Yet Another Stadium Under his Name in England Leicester

Sunil Gavaskar Honored With Yet Another Stadium Under his Name in England Leicester

Sunil Gavaskar Honored With Yet Another Stadium Under his Name in England Leicester: One more pride bought to India by Sunil Gavaskar who is batting legend of India. He is yet again honored to have another stadium under his name. Sunil Gavaskar who is 73 has yet added one more legend added to him. After the stadiums of Kentucky, US and Tanzania’s Zanzibar, he added the stadium of England’s Leicester under his name.

Gavaskar will be the first Indian to have a stadium named after him anywhere in Europe. Gavaskar will be travelling to Leicester to unveil his name plaque at the ground. This belongs to Bharat Sports and Cricket Club.

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The stadium is a 5-acre ground. A giant image of Gavaskar has already been painted on the wall of the stadium. The stadium will hold a ceremony on 23rd July, Saturday. Keith Vaz, who is UK’s longest serving MP belonging to Indian origin came up with the idea.

Gavaskar told TOI in his statement, “I am delighted and honoured that a ground in Leicester is being named after me. Leicester is a city with possibly the strongest supporters of the game, especially Indian cricket, and therefore it is a huge honour indeed.”

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Sunil Gavaskar Honored With Yet Another Stadium Under his Name in England Leicester

Sunil Gavaskar

Vaz is of her interviews showed how delighted they were to have Gavaskar agreeing to the idea. Gavaskar is the first batsman to have gone past the record of 10,000 runs in Test Cricket. He also held records for most runs and most centuries in test cricket. Gavaskar has played a total of 125 Test matches for India where he holds 34 centuries that he made. He also played 108 ODI matches for India.

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