IND Vs ENG, 3rd Test: Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium In Rajkot To Be Renamed After Niranjan Shah

The stadium in Khandheri will be rechristened as Niranjan Shah Stadium on the eve of the third Test between India and England, starting in Rajkot on February 15, a SCA media release said.

The inauguration of the new name of the stadium, 11 years after it hosted its first-ever game, will be done by BCCI Secretary Jay Shah.

Shah, who played 12 first-class games for Saurashtra from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, has been one of the senior cricket administrators in the country and continues to have significant influence in the SCA.

His son and former first-class cricketer Jaydev Shah, who also captained Saurashtra and played in the IPL, is the incumbent president of the local cricket governing body.