Jhulan Goswamithe previous India and Bengal quick bowler, can have a stand named in her honour within the ‘B’ Block of Eden Gardens in Kolkata, following a proposal by the Cricket Affiliation of Bengal (CAB).
“I by no means imagined one thing like this may come to fruition. I’d undoubtedly love to observe a match from there,” Goswami mentioned. “For any cricketer, the final word dream is to symbolize her district, state or nation, however receiving an honour like that is really monumental.
“A devoted stand is a large, important honour, and it is solely doable due to the CAB’s imaginative and prescient to advertise girls’s cricket. Phrases cannot do justice to this recognition.”
Goswami completed her worldwide profession with 44 wickets in 12 Exams, a world-record 255 wickets in 204 ODIs, and recorded one other 56 dismissals in 68 T20Is. With 355 wickets, she additionally has the report for probably the most wickets in girls’s worldwide cricket.
Eden Gardens additionally has stands named after former India captain Sourav Gangulyand former worldwide cricketer Pankaj Roy. There are additionally stands named for 2 former BCCI presidents, Jagmohan Dalmiya and Biswanath Dutt.