Indian Cricket group lands in Japan for historic one-off T20I towards hosts, Asian Games 2026 marketing campaign

Tokyo [Japan], September 21 (ANI): The Indian group arrived in Japan for his or her historic one-off T20I recreation towards Japan and their Asian Games males’s cricket match, with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) sharing the arrival visuals on Monday. 

Posting on their X, BCCI posted the video of the Indian males’s group, that includes stars like Ishan Kishan, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Iyer, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi amongst others reaching Japan and being welcomed warmly by followers, a few of who additionally obtained to click on photos with the gamers. 

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Ishan Kishan was captured saying, ‘Konnichiwa and Arigato’, which is Japanese for ‘Hello and Thank you’. 

India, which clinched the Gold medal within the earlier version of the Asian Games beneath captaincy of Ruturaj Gaikwad, will play their first match on the 2026 version on September 28 within the quarter-final stage.

The Suzuki Cup, the identify for the historic India-Japan T20I celebrating India’s 75 years of diplomatic relations with Japan, 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)