New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): India males’s cricket staff head coach Gautam Gambhir on Monday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and expressed gratitude for his time and steering.
Sharing photos of the assembly on social media platform X, Gambhir wrote, ‘A heat assembly with Hon’ble Home Minister Shri @AmitShah ji. Grateful for his time and steering. Wishing him continued good well being and well-being.’
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Meanwhile, the India males’s cricket staff will put on the BCCI jersey for its historic One-Off T20I match in opposition to Japan, whereas the staff has obtained its official Asian Games equipment for the rest of the event, a Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) supply advised ANI on Saturday.
‘Team India will put on the BCCI jersey for the match in opposition to Japan. The staff has obtained its Asian Games equipment for the remainder of the event, and the problem has been resolved,’ the MYAS supply mentioned.
The twentieth Asian Games are being held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from September 19 to October 4, with India taking part throughout 36 sports activities. India, which clinched the Gold medal within the earlier version of the Asian Games, will play their first match on the 2026 version on September 28 within the quarter-final stage.
The MYAS supply additional clarified that the match in opposition to Japan is a pleasant fixture and isn’t a part of the Asian Games competitors, which is why the staff will play in its common equipment.
‘The staff will play the match in opposition to Japan of their regular equipment because the match would not belong to the Asian Games; it is a pleasant match. But for the remainder of the event, the scale concern has been resolved, and so they have obtained their equipment for the event,’ the MYAS supply added.
The clarification comes after issues over the provision and sizing of the official equipment for the Indian staff forward of its marketing campaign on the continental multi-sport occasion. The Suzuki Cup will happen on the Sano International Cricket Ground in Tochigi Prefecture on September 22.
India’s squad for the Japan T20I & the Asian Games: Shreyas Iyer (C), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (WK), Ishan Kishan (WK), Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma (VC), Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Yash Thakur, Vipraj Nigam. (ANI)