NEW DELHI: Legendary cricketers Anil Kumble and Venkatesh Prasad have reached Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh to attend the Ram Temple ‘Pran Pratishtha’ ceremony on Monday. The star-studded visitor record for the occasion consists of Sachin Tendulkar, World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev, the ‘little grasp’ Sunil Gavaskar, in addition to Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Sourav Ganguly, Virendra Sehwag, and Indian cricket coach Rahul Dravid.
In anticipation of this big day, South Africa’s star spinner Keshav Maharaj conveyed a stupendous message to the Indian neighborhood a day earlier than the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha ceremony.
Maharaj shared a video message on social media, expressing his sentiments.
“Namaste everybody. I simply wish to want Mahesh (diplomat) and the Indian neighborhood right here in South Africa all the very best for the inauguration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya tomorrow. Might it convey peace, concord and non secular enlightenment to all,” Maharaj mentioned.
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For Maharaj, the Durban-born cricketer of Indian origin, Lord Ram is his best power.
“For me, God’s been my best blessing and if I get a chance it is the least I can do and it will get you within the zone and get that respect from different gamers. Respecting faith and tradition is vital nevertheless it’s a pleasant feeling to listen to ‘Ram Siya Ram’ being performed within the background,” Maharaj had mentioned in the course of the sequence towards India.
It is a uncommon incidence to have devotional music taking part in at a cricket floor, however when Maharaj made his entrance in the course of the India-South Africa Take a look at and white-ball sequence, the in-stadia DJ obtained a particular request: the ‘Ram Siya Ram Jai Jai Ram’ tune.
Surprisingly, the request had come immediately from the South African left-arm spinner, which even prompted India skipper KL Rahul to humorously ask him, “Each time you enter, they play that tune.”
In the course of the Cape City Take a look at, as Maharaj stepped as much as bat, a touching scene unfolded with Virat Kohli standing with folded palms, including a non secular observe to the cricketing environment.
“It was clearly one thing I put ahead to the media girl and requested that tune to be performed,” Maharaj had mentioned.
India wicketkeeper batsman KS Bharat, who’s the a part of the India squad for the five-match Take a look at sequence towards England, just lately notched up a century towards England Lions.