The prominent Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) housed at the renowned Lord’s cricket ground, on Wednesday, provided ‘Life Membership’ to World Cup winning captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni together with 4 other prominent India internationals. The other consist of, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, previous females’s nationwide captain Mithali Raj and the famous Jhulan Goswami.
The MCC revealed calling 19 brand-new honorary life members who represented 8 Test-playing nations.
The club’s cricket committee thinks about the election of gamers for life subscription as acknowledgment to the ‘impressive global professions for a few of the greats of the video game’.
The subscription is likewise provided to those people who have actually made an ‘remarkable contribution’ to the club or the sport.
“Five Indian gamers have actually been acknowledged with Honorary Life Membership. Jhulan Goswami, who bailed out from internationals in the England v India Women’s One-Day International at Lord’s in 2015, is the leading wicket-taker in ladies’s ODIs whilst Mithali Raj heads the run-scoring list with 7,805 in 211 innings,” stated the MCC on its site.
“MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh were both essential parts of the India side which won the 2007 ICC Men’s World T20 and the 2011 ICC Men’s World Cup, and Suresh Raina scored over 5,500 ODI stumbles upon a 13-year profession,” the note included.
The CEO and secretary of the MCC, Guy Lavender stated, “We are enjoyed have the ability to reveal our latest friend of Honorary Life Members of MCC, as we get ready for the brand-new global summer season.
“The names that have actually been revealed today are a few of the best global gamers of modern-day times, and we are fortunate to now count them as valued Members of our Club.”
The others who were honoured with the subscription are Merissa Aguilleira from the West Indies, Jenny Gunn, Laura Marsh, Anya Shrubsole, Eoin Morgan and Kevin Pietersen from England, Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez, Bangladesh’s Mashrafe Mortaza, South Africa’s Dale Steyn, Australia’s Rachael Haynes and New Zealand’s Amy Satterhwaite and Ross Taylor.
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