NARENDRA MODI STADIUM
NARENDRA MODI STADIUM
Motera cricket stadium, the world’s largest cricket stadium, has been renamed from Sardar Patel Stadium to Narendra Modi Stadium.
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- Motera Stadium, is a cricket stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.India’s Test against England is the first match at the brand new Motera, the name of the place, after it was refurbished and converted into a 110,000-seater facility, making it the biggest cricket ground in the world in terms of capacity.
Important Info :
Name change
- Naming it after a politician was in line with a decades-old practice in Indian sport, especially cricket.
- Mumbai’s Brabourne and Wankhede Stadiums were named after individuals who were alive at the time. The same is the case with Navi Mumbai’s D Y Patil Stadium, Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium, and Chennai’s M A Chidambaram Stadium.
- Mohali’s PCA Stadium was renamed after former BCCI and Punjab Cricket Association president I S Bindra in 2015.
- The Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi was renamed Arun Jaitley Stadium in 2019.
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