Tendulkar was invited by MCA president Amol Kale on Tuesday morning to resolve the place the place his statue will be put in. He picked a spot simply reverse the MCA lounge.

“The committee guided me, and in the area outside the MCA lounge, there will be a roundabout which will be created, and the statue will come up there. The background of it will be the stadium and all our action happened there (inside the ground). It is one spot, a crowd can come and get pictures clicked, and at the same time it is accessible,” Tendulkar stated after finalising the place.

He was proven three spots, one outdoors the BCCI headquarters, one contained in the upcoming MCA museum floor flooring constructing, and the opposite outdoors the MCA lounge which is subsequent to the Garware Pavilion. Tendulkar was accompanied by his spouse Anjali.

Sachin Tendulkar alongwith his spouse Anjali and MCA president Amol Kale on the Wankhede Stadium. Tendulkar will resolve the place his statue might be put in categorical picture by Deepak Joshi

“My journey started from here only, I had come to the stadium to support Shardashram (Vidyamandir) senior team. I left my match and it was then that Achrekar sir reprimanded me, the journey began from there,” the previous Mumbai batsman recalled.

“Those children who used to do well in Mumbai cricket, they were kept as ball boys. I was a ball boy here too. I played Mumbai first-class cricket here and all my big moments happened at the venue. For me, the biggest moment in my life came in the 2011 World Cup and it happened on this ground. My retirement also happened here, with this ground, I have an emotional attachment towards it and I can’t compare it with anything,” he added.

Tendulkar might be turning 50 on April 24 and the MCA was planning to honour him for his service in the direction of cricket. “It was a pleasant surprise, the president Mr (Amol) Kale is here. The idea was shared to me and I was surprised. I’m still 25 years old with 25 years of experience (laughs),” he quipped.

MCA president Kale said that the statue might be positioned in the course of the ICC ODI World Cup which is scheduled to happen in India in October-November later this 12 months. “We wanted to keep it on Sachin’s 50th birthday but the statue will take some time to be ready. So, most probably, his statue will be unveiled during the World Cup,” Kale knowledgeable.

Tendulkar would be the first participant from Mumbai to have his statue contained in the stadium premises.

Tendulkar performed 200 Test matches, 463 ODIs and one T20 for India. He holds the report for many variety of a whole bunch in worldwide cricket (100) and likewise has probably the most variety of runs in worldwide cricket.