Forward of the high-voltage India-Australia Ladies’s ODI World Cup 2025 match, the Andhra Cricket Affiliation (ACA) will inaugurate the Mithali Raj Stand and the Ravi Kalpana Stand on the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Sunday, October 12.
That is stated to be the first-of-its-kind tribute to girls cricketers on the stadium.
The choice was taken after Indian girls’s cricketer Smriti Mandhana had prompt to Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh to call two stands on the Vizag cricket stadium after Mithali and Raavi.
As per ACA officers, the choice was fast-tracked following the star batter Smriti’s request through the “Breaking Boundaries” fireplace chat in August 2025 with Lokesh, the place she highlighted the absence of stadium stands named after main Indian girls cricketers, together with at Vizag.
She talked about that the renaming of such stands would honour the contribution of girls cricketers, whereas additionally spotlighting their contributions to the sport. It might additionally encourage the following era of girls to enter cricket as a career.
Performing on Smriti’s attraction, Lokesh instantly consulted the ACA, resulting in a immediate decision to honour girls’s cricket icons by naming stands after them on the Vizag venue.
Lokesh stated, “Smriti Mandhana’s considerate suggestion captured a wider public sentiment. Translating that concept into quick motion displays our collective dedication to gender parity and to acknowledging the trailblazers of girls’s cricket.”
Revealed on Oct 06, 2025