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Home»Cricket»Sunil Gavaskar, different Mumbai captains felicitated as MCA kicks off Wankhede Stadium’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations

Sunil Gavaskar, different Mumbai captains felicitated as MCA kicks off Wankhede Stadium’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations

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Sunil Gavaskar, different Mumbai captains felicitated as MCA kicks off Wankhede Stadium’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations
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The Mumbai Cricket Affiliation (MCA) commenced the fiftieth anniversary celebratory week of the Wankhede Stadium with a grand felicitation ceremony honoring former captains of the Mumbai cricket workforce, each males’s and ladies’s. The occasion, held on the stadium, was graced by cricketing legends, together with Sunil Gavaskar, who was additionally a member of the Indian workforce that performed the inaugural Check match on the Wankhede Stadium in opposition to the West Indies in 1974.

Gavaskar expressed his heartfelt sentiments in the course of the ceremony. “It’s so good to be again at this iconic venue, a venue that has given Indian cricket such nice moments. As we speak is the beginning of the fiftieth anniversary celebration week of the enduring Wankhede Stadium and as a gap batter, I couldn’t miss the beginning. I lengthen my heartfelt needs to the MCA and categorical my profound gratitude for the alternatives they supplied me from my faculty days. I owe my success to the help and encouragement I obtained from the MCA,” he acknowledged.

The felicitation ceremony occurred within the presence of the MCA President Ajinkya Naik together with MCA Vice President Sanjay Naik, Secretary Abhay Hadap, Treasurer Arman Mallick, Jt Secretary Deepak Patil and former President Vijay Patil.

The ceremony was attended by a bunch of cricketing stalwarts, together with Sanjay Manjrekar, Wasim Jaffer, Raju Kulkarni, Chandrakant Pandit, Lalchand Rajput, Shobha Pandit, and Arundhati Ghosh who all contributed to the wealthy legacy of Mumbai cricket. The Sports activities Journalists Affiliation of Mumbai (SJAM) was additionally felicitated for his or her help and contribution to Mumbai cricket.

As a part of the week-long celebrations, two thrilling cricket matches had been held, that includes groups represented by Mumbai Cricket Affiliation (MCA), Sports activities Journalists Affiliation of Mumbai (SJAM), Consul Generals, and IAS Officers. Within the first match, MCA defeated the Sports activities Journalists Affiliation of Mumbai by 5 runs whereas IAS Officers Workforce received in opposition to the Consul Generals Workforce within the second match by 20 runs.

Talking on the event, MCA President Ajinkya Naik mentioned: “Wankhede Stadium’s fiftieth anniversary is a special day for us. As we speak was the beginning of the grand celebration and our major purpose behind this week-long occasion is to tell the subsequent technology about Mumbai’s cricket historical past and contributions of males’s and ladies’s gamers who performed for Mumbai and encourage the younger technology to take ahead this legacy.”

The fiftieth anniversary celebrations will proceed all through the week. MCA will felicitate the groundsmen of MCA’s golf equipment and grounds and organise Polly Umrigar Well being Camp and particular lunch for them on January 15 adopted by felicitation of the members of the Mumbai workforce which performed the primary first-class match on the Wankhede Stadium in 1974.

The grand present is on January 19, 2025 and tickets for the grand present is obtainable on District by Zomato and Insider.in. Beginning at ₹300, tickets will provide followers a chance to be a part of the historic celebration and witness an thrilling night.

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