Boosted by international recognition DY Patil Sports Academy is marching on. 

On Monday Rahul Dravid inaugurated their website www. dypsa.in and expressed a wish to play at least one international tie at the DY Patil Stadium before quitting the game.

“This place can be a training ground not only in cricket but for all disciplines and be a breeding ground for future sports people. I have no doubt that in future this will be the hub,” said Dravid.

The website highlights the facilities at the complex and its brief period of glory during the inaugural IPL when it hosted five games including the final. A British architecture journal in May rated it among the world’s top six cricket stadia.

The sports academy’s president, Vijay Patil, said sports federations, especially of swimming, tennis, squash and badminton, could utilise the facilities in the complex to conduct national level meets.

There are five tennis courts, two badminton courts and an Olympic-size swimming pool other than three glass-back squash courts, according to sports secretary and co-ordinator of the academy, Avinash Salvi.