{"id":22197,"date":"2023-04-25T03:45:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T03:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/cricket-sharjah-stadium-renames-stand\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T03:49:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T03:49:21","slug":"cricket-sharjah-stadium-renames-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/cricket-sharjah-stadium-renames-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Sharjah Stadium renames stand after Sachin Tendulkar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211;     The Sharjah Cricket Stadium has honoured India batting great Sachin Tendulkar on his 50th birthday by naming a stand after him.<\/p>\n<p>The venue in the United Arab Emirates held a ceremony for the former India captain on Monday, announcing that the &#8216;West Stand&#8217; had been renamed the &#8216;Sachin Tendulkar Stand&#8217;.  <\/p>\n<p>Tendulkar smashed 143 runs against Australia at the stadium in April 1998 in a One-Day International dubbed &#8216;Desert Storm&#8217; after play was disrupted for 25 minutes due to a sand storm. <\/p>\n<p>His knock guided India to the tri-series final against Australia, which India won by six wickets with Tendulkar striking 134 runs on his 25th birthday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t forget his birthday celebrations,&#8221; said Khalaf Bukhatir, the chief executive of Sharjah Cricket. &#8220;It mesmerised the whole audience and I feel lucky to have been there. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That day is not just special to Sachin but special to everyone who witnessed it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sydney Cricket Ground also paid tribute to Tendulkar on Monday, unveiling a set of gates named after him and West Indies batsman Brian Lara.<\/p>\n<p>Tendulkar retired from the professional game in 2013 after notching a still unmatched 100 international centuries in a glittering 24-year career.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/cricket-sharjah-stadium-renames-stand\/file-photo-sachin-tendulkar\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O034-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O034-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The Sharjah Cricket Stadium has honoured India batting great Sachin Tendulkar on his 50th birthday by naming a stand after him. The venue in the United Arab Emirates held a ceremony for the former India captain on Monday, announcing that the &#8216;West Stand&#8217; had been renamed the &#8216;Sachin Tendulkar Stand&#8217;. Tendulkar smashed 143 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O034-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22199,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22197\/revisions\/22199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}