50 years ago on this day, M Chinnaswamy Stadium turned a Test venue thanks to the relentless efforts of men who dreamt big and pushed the boundaries to realise them. TOI traces the journey of the stadium from a rocky patch of land to a state-of-the-art facility.
BENGALURU: In the early 1900s, Krishna Building, near Gandhinagar, was the unlikely setting for the birth of a dream, one which eventually shaped the history of Karnataka cricket. It housed offices of lawyers, including the firm of a certain M Chinnaswamy and SA Srinivasan.