Ind vs Eng 3rd Test: Motera Stadium renamed to Narendra Modi Stadium; check list of cricket Stadiums named after Indian PMs: President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday inaugurated the world’s largest cricket stadium. It was also renamed after the current Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju were also in attendance on the occasion.
The Motera/Sardar Patel Stadium will be now known as Narendra Modi Stadium. The cricket’s largest stadium has a crowd capacity of 132,000 overtaking Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG, Australia) which allowed 1 lakh spectators. The stadium is oval in shape and as a result, whenever a match is played on any of the 11 pitches, the boundary size will remain the same on both sides.
Here’s a look at five other stadiums named after India Prime Ministers
Nehru Stadium (Kochi, Pune & Margao)
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium (Hyderabad)
Indira Gandhi Stadium (Vijayawada)
Rajiv Gandhi Int Stadium (Hyderabad)
Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium (Lucknow)
Narendra Modi Stadium (Ahmedabad)
On February 24, 2019, the then President of United States, Donald Trump had visited Motera Stadium for the ‘Namaste Trump’ event, and exactly one year later, the newly-built stadium will now be hosting its first international cricket match.