Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has decided to auction the two seats where Dhoni's ball landed in 2011.
Indian cricket has seen many historic moments in it's time and one such monumentous moment was none other than MS Dhoni's 2011 World Cup final match winning six that he hit against Sri Lanka at the Wankhede stadium. (More Cricket News)
Now, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has decided to auction the two seats where Dhoni's ball landed in 2011.
‘Dhoni finishes off in style… To eternalize the glory of this moment, the two seats where the ball landed at the Wankhede Stadium after MS Dhoni struck the ICC World Cup 2011 winning six will be auctioned by the MCA,” the MCA tweeted on Thursday.
Earlier this year, MS Dhini spoke about the match-winning six, saying "it was a sense of satisfaction to get the job done."
He said, "To me, it was not the winning moment, it was 15-20 minutes ago when emotionally I was very high. And at the same time, I wanted to get done with it. We knew that we would win this from here, and it was very difficult for us to lose. So yes, you know it was more of a sense of satisfaction, job done, let’s move on from here.”
The 2011 triumph was India's first World Cup in 28 years since the 1983 World Cup that they won under Kapil Dev.
“The best feeling was 15-20 minutes (before the winning moment). We didn’t need a lot of runs, the partnership was well-placed, there was a lot of dew. And the stadium started to sing Vande Mataram. That atmosphere I feel is very difficult to recreate – maybe in this [upcoming 2023] World Cup, there is a similar scenario, once the stadium, the fans start contributing. You know, it’s a very difficult (atmosphere) one to replicate. But it can only be replicated if the occasion is similar to that (in 2011) and there are like 40, 50 or 60,000 people who are singing,” Dhoni had said earlier this year.
The 2023 World Cup starts on October 5 and India will look to repeat the heroics of Dhoni back in 2011.