Tendulkar Drive, Wasim Akram Way : Town in Australia Has Streets Named After Legendary Players

[MenInG]

Estate developers in the suburb of Victoria, Australia, have found a new way to lure potential customers -- by naming the streets on the name of the cricketers. Now owning a house in 'Kohli Crescent' or Tendulkar Drive', or maybe own a villa at the 'Kallis Way' or 'Dev Terrace' might be possible.

Rockbank, the western suburb in Melton City Council, has streets named after these legends and the inquiries have doubled ever since this development.

"As soon as we announced street names after cricketers, inquiries doubled," property developer Varun Sharma was quoted as saying by SBS Hindi.

"Who would not like to live on 'Kohli Crescent? You never know Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli might drive by the street when he is in Melbourne this December,"Sharma added, referring to India's upcoming tour of Australia.

Apart from the Indian legends, other streets named after cricketers included (Steve) Waugh Street, (Gary) Sobers Drive, (Richard) Hadlee Street and (Wasim) Akram Way.

City of Melton Mayor, Cr Lara Carli, was quoted as saying, "Street names in our city are usually submitted by developers and approved by Council if they meet Office of Geographic Names guidelines. It seems these cricket-themed names are already popular with cricketer fans in our community and beyond."

This is not the first time a street has been named after an Indian cricketer. Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, has a street in the name of Sunil Gavaskar -- the 'Gavaskar Place'. It is situated in a locality called Khandala.

https://www.news18.com/cricketnext/...ts-named-after-legendary-players-2666959.html

 

[ManFan]

Hadlee; what a tortured genius.

 

[sweep_shot]

Not a bad idea.

Seems cool.

 

[MenInG]

Guess "Drive" suits names of batsmen - so Tendulkar Drive would be interesting place to live in

Wonder how bowlers can be recognized?

 

[Mamoon]

The U-turn on the street should be named after Imran Khan.

 

[Robert]

North London has a Worrall Lane, Morris Avenue, Gatting Way and Brearley Close.

 

[Hitman]

The U-turn on the street should be named after Imran Khan.

) You never cease to deliver.

 

[Varun]

The U-turn on the street should be named after Imran Khan.

Talk about a one-track mind!

 

[Varun]

Something with a steep incline should be named after Afridi.

A path with potholes should be Akmal Avenue.

 

[MenInG]

Am wondering if these guys have paid money to each of the cricketers for using their names? Names like SRT/Kohli would cost a lot?!

 

[MenInG]

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[Majid Khan]

If they had some space next to Sobers Drive, I would suggest a small corner mansion named Hafeez Edge.

 

[topspin]

Afridi Duck Park would complete this.

 

[Majid Khan]

Afridi Duck Park would complete this.

Or Afridi Tower , a skyscraper.

 

[Varun]

Inzamam Boulevard can be the name of a wide looking avenue.

 

[khan-92]

Mushy Googly Avenue
Waqar Swing St

 

[OMB]

A Wide avenue - Broad Street
Longest street - Olonga Street (Henry)
Bypass road - Border Road

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

Streets named after Kohli, Tendulkar, Laxman, Kapil, Akram, Miandad in Melbourne!

Melbourne is the unchallenged ‘Sports Capital of Australia’ and is also sometimes referred to as the ‘Sporting Capital of the World.’ Sporting culture is woven into the fabric of the Capital of the State of Victoria and Sports is part of the Melburnian way of life. Australian Rules Football, Rugby Union and League, Tennis Grand Slam, Formula One Grand Prix, Cricket, Horse Racing, Soccer, Netball and Basketball - every sport boasts of a Stadium of its own with the city unrivalled in spectator support.

When it comes to Cricket, cricket enthusiasts might not have missed the fact that Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) hosts all the major cricket tournaments in Australia as the grand final venue. Every year, the day following Christmas on ‘Boxing Day,’ a public holiday, a Test Match commences at the MCG between host nation Australia and an opposing national cricket team that would be touring the land Down Under, referred to as ‘Boxing Day Test Match,’ which this year involves India. The iconic Victorian landmark ‘The G’ was the world’s biggest cricket stadium from 1853 to 2019, until it was outdone by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Motera) Stadium in Ahmedabad, India.

In the Melburnian temple town of Rockbank
Nineteen roads adorn the ‘Cricketing Greats’
Names of eleven type of street variations
Assembled from six cricket playing nations

Among them - three Indian streets popularly jive
Kohli Crescent, Dev Terrace and Tendulkar Drive!

There is pleasant news for the cricket crazy fans across the globe. If you were ever dreaming of living in a residential address named after your favourite cricketer, it is up for grabs. Welcome to Rockbank: the rural-urban fringe in the Melton City Council, approx. 37 kms from Melbourne CBD in the State of Victoria, Australia!

Located in the growth corridor of west Melbourne, ‘Accolade Estate’ (a housing estate broadly means a residential area in which the houses have all been planned and built as a single development) proudly boasts of having its streets named after cricketing greats from 6 cricket playing nations as depicted below. This ‘Estate of Fame’ is bestowed to have all the nineteen streets named after famed cricketers of the world spanning a few generations - Laurie Nash (1932) to Virat Kohli (2020). Aussie great bowler of yesteryears Glen McGrath attended the initial launch of the Project in November 2019.

The Directors Anthony Braunthal and Khurram Saeed of ‘Resi Ventures,’ the Developers of the estate initiated this unique idea of imparting Cricketing legend’s names to the streets upholding their Company’s chiming slogan ‘bringing land back to life’ and as many as 60 names were submitted to the Council for approval . Anthony is the grandson of Aussie sporting legend Laurie Nash and Khurram of Pakistani origin who migrated to Australia at the age of ten is an avid cricket fan, having played cricket all his life.



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[hoshiarpurexpress]

I love how Kohli Crescent is next to Akthar Avenue.
The people living on those streets must say the choicest of Punjabi Sweet words to people passing by as a requirement.