Mumbai: After Sakshi Malik and P V Sindhu, Anjum Chopra has brought another proud moment for India. The 39-year-old Indian women cricketer will be awarded with lifetime membership of Marleybourne Cricket Club (MCC). She is honoured along with Zaheer Khan and Virender Sehwag (as reported in this website earlier).
Anjum expressed her desire to receive the honour in a recent interview, she said “It’s been an honour. Two months back I got a mail from the Lord’s office asking me whether I would like to accept the honorary life membership of MCC. After I replied, they sent me an acceptance letter. Two days back when Zaheer’s name came up as the new MCC Life Member, I saw the list and found my name there.”
“It feels good when you see the names of the Indian cricket’s legends like Sunil Gavaskar, Gundappa Viswanath, who have been bestowed with the honour of life membership of MCC,” she added.
Anjum had an 11 year long career where she featured in 11 tests, 127 ODIs and 18 T20 internationals. Also she is the first Indian woman cricketer to play 100 ODIs.
India’s daughters are definitely making the nation proud. After the immense success of Sakshi Malik and P V Sindhu in the Rio Olympics, Anjum Chopra has now again made the nation proud.