Along with the Raj Singh Dungarpur Gate, the Cricket Club of India (CCI) will now also have an entrance named after Vijay Merchant, the late ex-India and Mumbai batsman. It is learnt that a gate on Dinshaw Vaccha Road at Churchgate will be inaugurated in the presence of prominent cricketing personalities on August 8.

The honour for Vijay Merchant is undoubtedly deserving from an on-field and off-field point of view. He scored 19 first-class centuries at the club's Brabourne Stadium turf and according to Vasant Raiji (India's oldest living first-class cricketer at 99) and departed ace statistician Anandji Dossa's 1987 book on the CCI and Brabourne Stadium, 4976 out of Merchant's 13,248 first-class runs were scored at India's second Test venue.