{"id":479633,"date":"2026-02-14T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/479633\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T14:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:13:13","slug":"dravid-kumble-rangaswamy-to-have-stands-named-after-them-at-chinnaswamy-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/479633\/","title":{"rendered":"Dravid, Kumble, Rangaswamy to have stands named after them at Chinnaswamy Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former India captains Rahul Dravid<\/a>, Anil Kumble<\/a> and Shantha Rangaswamy<\/a> will have stands named in their honour at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium<\/a> in Bengaluru, the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Kumble is India’s highest wicket-taker in Tests and ODIs, with 619 and 337 wickets, respectively. Dravid remains India’s second-highest run-scorer in Tests after Sachin Tendulkar, amassing 13,288 runs in 164 matches in the format, apart from scoring 10,889 runs in 344 ODIs.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a second home to me,” Dravid said of the Chinnaswamy Stadium during a KSCA event marking 50 years of the ground. “And it’s been a place where… we’ve probably spent more time than we have in our houses. It’s been a place of great happiness, and sometimes great disappointment as well.<\/p>\n

“But it’s also a place that has truly given me everything I am today. I can never be grateful enough for what the KSCA and this great, iconic ground have given me in my life. I’m truly thankful that Venkatesh Prasad [the KSCA president] and his committee have decided to name an end after me. It means a lot.<\/p>\n

“I know this would mean a lot to my family. My father, as many of you may know, loved the game. He was instrumental in nurturing the love for the sport that I have. He brought me here to so many matches – not only Test matches, but also Ranji Trophy games. Whenever he took leave, he would bring me here. As a young boy, we would attend at least one day of every match. He would be so proud today to know that his son has an end named after him.”<\/p>\n

Rangaswamy, a pioneer in women’s cricket, was India Women’s first captain in 1976, and the first to lead the team to a Test series win. She was also the first woman to receive a lifetime achievement award from the BCCI. Rangaswamy scored India’s first Test century in women’s cricket. This is only the fourth time in India that a stadium stand or gate has been named after a woman cricketer, following similar honours for Jhulan Goswami in Kolkata, Mithali Raj in Visakhapatnam, and Anjum Chopra in Delhi.<\/p>\n

“What makes me even more proud is that I’m sharing this occasion and this honour with some people who I truly admire and respect – [like] to be honoured alongside Shantha Rangaswamy today, someone who has made a huge contribution to women’s sport, to women’s cricket,” Dravid said.<\/p>\n

“Not only just cricket, but I think when you look at how women’s sport in all fields has progressed today, I think a huge credit should go to the pioneers like Shantha Rangaswamy for what they did when it was very, very difficult to play sport and to play cricket in this country.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former India captains Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble and Shantha Rangaswamy will have stands named in their honour at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-479633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}