President Murmu hails India Women’s cricket group’s historic Asian Games gold

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 22 (ANI): President Droupadi Murmu congratulated the Indian ladies’s cricket group on profitable the gold medal in Women’s T20 Cricket within the ongoing Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya.  

She described the victory as a historic achievement that secured India’s first gold medal of the Games, bringing immense delight to the nation.

President Murmu praised the group’s distinctive efficiency, dedication and spirit of teamwork, saying their achievement serves as an inspiration to the nation’s youth, notably younger women and girls.

India defeated Sri Lanka by 147 runs within the ladies’s T20 cricket closing on Tuesday to assert their second successive Asian Games gold medal. The victory additionally gave India its first gold of the continuing version. 

‘My heartiest congratulations to all of the members of Team India on profitable the Gold Medal in Women’s T20 Cricket on the Asian Games 2026. Your historic victory has secured India its first Gold Medal on this version of the Games and introduced immense delight to the nation. Your distinctive efficiency, group spirit and dedication are a supply of nice inspiration for our youth, particularly our daughters,’ President Murmu wrote in an X submit. 

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International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Jay Shah and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay additionally hailed India ladies’s cricket group for profitable gold. 

Shah stated the achievement highlights the rising power of ladies’s cricket and its readiness for main multi-sport occasions forward of the game’s return to the Olympics at LA28.

‘Congratulations to India ladies’s group for profitable the Asian Games gold! And nicely performed, Sri Lanka, on clinching silver in Japan after a robust marketing campaign. As we look forward to cricket’s return to the Olympics at #LA28, spectacles like this show that the ladies’s recreation is able to command the most important multi-sport levels,’ Shah wrote in an X submit. 

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Tamil Nadu CM Vijay additionally congratulated the Indian group and particularly praised Gunalan Kamalini, hailing from Madurai, who was a part of the gold-medal-winning squad. 

In recognition of her achievement, the Tamil Nadu authorities introduced a money award of Rs 75 lakh for Kamalini. Vijay stated the federal government would proceed supporting proficient sportspersons and expressed hope that Kamalini’s success would encourage younger individuals and ladies throughout Tamil Nadu.

‘I lengthen my heartfelt congratulations and appreciation to the Indian ladies’s group, who’ve achieved a historic feat by profitable the gold medal within the ladies’s cricket class on the twentieth Asian Games at present going down in Japan, and to the sportswoman Kamalini from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, who’s a member of that group. Appreciating the good achievement of cricketer Kamalini, on behalf of the Government of Tamil Nadu, a prestigious money award of Rs.75 lakhs will likely be given,’ as per an announcement from the Tamil Nadu CMO. 

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‘The Government of Tamil Nadu will at all times stand as agency assist for all proficient sportspersons like her. This victory of Kamalini will present new inspiration and confidence to the youth and ladies of Tamil Nadu. I want her many extra achievements!’ the assertion additional added. 

Both groups comfortably reached the ultimate, with India defeating Japan within the quarter-finals and Bangladesh within the semi-finals, whereas Sri Lanka beat Malaysia and Pakistan of their respective knockout match.

The Women in Blue clinched the gold medal on the 2023 version after defeating Sri Lanka by 19 runs within the closing in Hangzhou. (ANI)