Mumbai has two world-class cricket venues in the Wankhede Stadium and the DY Patil Stadium besides of course the Brabourne Stadium — all three situated within a 35 km corridor. 

However, the country’s commercial capital is an infrastructure-saturated zone. And due to this, pushing for a new one-lakh capacity cricket stadium in Thane — as proposed by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis — risks creating a geographical white elephant that could remain underutilised for most part of the year.