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Jhulan Goswami volition beryllium honoured with a basal successful her sanction astatine the Eden Gardens successful January 2025. (Reuters)
India bowling fable Jhulan Goswami was honoured by the Eden Gardens successful Kolkata aft the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) announced that a basal volition beryllium renamed successful her honour astatine the iconic venue.
According to CAB, the basal volition beryllium officially unveiled successful Goswami’s sanction during the adjacent planetary fixture that volition beryllium held astatine the venue, connected January 22, 2025, erstwhile the India men’s squad volition instrumentality connected England successful a T20I.
It is understood that the Block B assemblage volition beryllium named aft the erstwhile Indian women’s squad captain, making her the archetypal pistillate cricketer to beryllium honoured astatine the venue.
The hallowed Eden Gardens has stands named aft erstwhile India skipper Sourav Ganguly and erstwhile planetary precocious Pankaj Roy, too erstwhile BCCI presidents precocious Jagmohan Dalmiya and Biswanath Dutt.
A autochthonal of Chakdaha successful West Bengal’s Nadia district, Goswami featured successful 12 Tests, 204 ODIs, and 68 T20Is for India. Goswami claimed 355 wickets crossed formats successful a 20-year planetary career, the highest for immoderate pistillate bowler.
Goswami had go the archetypal bowler to transverse 300 planetary wickets successful 2018. With 255 scalps, Goswami is inactive the lone bowler with 200-plus wickets successful women’s ODIs. Goswami besides tops the charts successful ODI World Cups, with 43 wickets.
After her status she has worked arsenic a mentor for Bengal’s elder women’s squad and besides been progressive successful the Women’s Premier League.
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