The MIG Cricket Club of Bandra recently conferred honorary life memberships to 14 cricketers, along with a billiards player. Sachin Tendulkar and young woman cricketer Jemimah Rodrigues are the two existing members of the MIG Cricket Club who have life memberships.
As a special gesture of appreciation for the contribution Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, and Yashasvi Jaiswal made toward the stunning win in the 2024 T20 World Cup., they have been elevated to honorary life membership by the MIG Cricket Club
Cricket Icons Honored by MIG Cricket Club in Bandra
The MIG Cricket Club has a rich history of turning out cricket talent. For generations together, the club has served as an academy for big names in cricket. It provides excellent facilities and a congenial atmosphere for practice. This gesture on the part of the cricket club has once again identified its role in the cricketing fraternity and its tradition of excellence by awarding life membership to such players.
Several other Indian cricketers have become honorary life members of the club. They include KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Prithvi Shaw, Irfan and Yusuf Pathan, Nilesh Kulkarni, and Subroto Banerjee, besides honoring former women’s cricketer Sulakshana Naik and billiards player Kamal Chawla.
The legendary Sachin Tendulkar once trained here at the MIG Cricket Club. Hardik Pandya and his brother Krunal have also shifted to Mumbai and reside in Bandra. They train at the club regularly. Krunal, a left-arm spin-bowling all-rounder, has also been conferred life membership.
These honorary life memberships are awaited to pay tribute to the dedicated service and exceptional performance of those players. The appreciation is not only for the way they performed on the ground but also for how much their play provided impetus for the growth of the sport. These players inspired many young talents in cricket and showed a fine example of how to play the game. Association with the MIG Cricket Club underlines this very ideal of nurturing cricketing talent and honoring it.
General secretary of the MIG Shrikant Shetty provided details of this honorary life membership and said it was to honor the contributions the players have made to cricket and billiards. The honorary members will use the club’s paper, all other facilities, special events, and community engagement.
The club is more than delighted to announce that it has been awarded life memberships. We feel honored to pass on this message to our cricket role models.
Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav Received MIG Club Recognition
The idea has been approved by the board of trustees and managing committee. It is also the club’s method of maintaining Indian cricket traditions and history. Hardik Pandya played a gigantic role in India’s win in the World Cup T20 2024 by scoring 144 at an average of 48, along with picking 11 wickets. He further captained the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League in 2024. Suryakumar Yadav scored 199 runs in his eight matches, and at the same time, he took some really good catches in the final.
It is this recognition that inspires young generations to come. Young cricketers training at the MIG Cricket Club can look up to these men as role models. The success stories of Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, and other players going all the way would help aspiring cricketers at the club work hard for their dreams. At the club, this proved that hard work, talent, and dedication were all that were required to reach the pinnacle of this game.
The honorary life memberships celebrate individual achievements but also build the community of cricket. This step by the MIG Cricket Club to felicitate Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and other players only proves the club’s seriousness toward the same game. It does celebrate the hard work, skill, and contribution of the aforementioned athletes, but it keeps motivating generations of cricketers at large.
