On Virat Kohli's birthday, CAB plans to do THIS for IND vs SA at Eden Gardens

Star batter Virat Kohli will be playing against South Africa at the Eden Gardens on November 5. The match coincides with Kohli's 35th birthday. The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) is organizing a grand show to mark the star batter's birthday in Kolkata.

 

 

As per reports, CAB, headed by cricket legend Sourav Ganguly's brother, Snehasish Ganguly, will be distributing 70,000 masks of the Indian superstar among the spectators who will come to see the match. It has plans to have a cake-cutting ceremony before the start of the match and felicitate Kohli with a memento.

 

“We hope to get an approval from the ICC on this. We want to make the day special for Virat,” CAB president Snehasish Ganguly told PTI in Kolkata. “We want every fan in the stadium wearing Kohli masks as he walks in. We plan to distribute about 70,000 masks on that day,” he added on Monday.

 

The match is set to be a full house with all the tickets sold out much in advance. “We also plan to host a fireworks show during the mid-innings interval for Virat and the crowd. It will be our way of celebrating his birthday, and our way of saying that the entire Kolkata crowd is part of the celebrations. We are sure of a full house and everyone in the stands is a Virat fan. It is a gesture on behalf of all of them,” Snehasish added.