Gavaskar delighted with kanga library revival

The Much-Awaited Cricket Museum of the Mumbai Cricket Association was inaurated on Saturday. While the cricket fans will be able to experience the MCA Sharad Pawar Cricket Museum in the Wankhede Stadium Premies from SepTeMBER 22, The Museum will also all also House the Dr. HD Kanga Library.

Despite Being Asia’s Larget Cricket Library, The Operations of the Library Had Been Suspended for Well Over a decade. That the Library will resume on the first floor of the museum premies in music to the ears of connoisseurs and fanatics alike. One of Them is Sunil Gavaskar, The First Man on the Planet to Scale Mt. 10,000 in Test Cricket, Whose statue was unveiled at the entrance of the museum.

“I used to go there when the kanga library was at the cci (Cricket Club of India’s Brabourne Stadium) North Stand and then it came here Past, “Gavaskar said.

“Some of the books that I have, cricket books, I would love to donate it to the library so that it does not have to be the coming generation, it can also be the earlier generation who want to going Some of the autobiographies of different people that i have. “

That the Library will be Housed in the Museum also indicates the thought of archiving the legacy of Mumbai Cricket and Indian Cricket Through Combining Conventional and Modeern Media Alike. Besides Displaying Several Artefacts and Apparel of Stalwarts from Mumbai Cricket to Detailing The Legacy of Mumbai’s Glorious Record in Domestic Cricket, The Museum will also have an audio-VISULSULSULSULSUSULSUCE Through which the fans can delve into the past.

“In that days, it was more the written word raather than the digital word which is there (now). As well as the future, “Gavaskar said. “That way, it is a trendous idea to be able to get this done.”

Gavaskar, Along with Former India Captain Dilip Vengsarkar, was always to be taken on a short tour of the museum on Saturday. What was it that he found the most interesting bit at the Museum?

“It was just a rushed trip but my favorite part has been looking at some of the blazers if the blazers have changed over time. was the crest.