Blades of Glory Cricket Museum is a cricket
memorabilia museum located in
Pune,
Maharashtra
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,
India. It was founded by Rohan Pate, a former U-19 Maharashtra cricket player, and formally inaugurated by
Sachin Tendulkar in 2012. The museum has over 51,000 cricket items, and more than 450 International Players have visited the place.
About the gallery
The gallery has many cricket items such as bats signed by the captains of the World Cup winning team; personal cricket items signed and used by Sir Donald Bradman,
Kapil Dev,
Mahendra Singh Dhoni,
Desmond Haynes,
Sir Alastair Cook , Sir Viv Richards, Ricky Pointing, Imran Khan, Sunil Gavasakar, Wasim Akram, Jaques kallis,
Sourav Ganguly and
Virat Kohli; bats signed by each member of World Cup winning team; world T20 team; and a pair of trousers that Sachin Tendulkar wore in test cricket in his 50th century and world cup 2011 winning used and signed shirt.
The gallery is 5000 sq.ft long with a large collection of autographs of cricketers in various themes.
References
External links
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Blades of Glory - World’s Biggest Cricket Museum, Pune, Maharashtra Collected 50,000+ Cricket Memorabilia in World Record of India
Museums in Pune
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