Asian Games 2026: Ambassador Nagma Mallick welcomes Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in Tokyo

Tokyo [Japan], September 18 (ANI): Indian Ambassador to Japan Nagma Mallick welcomed Union Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports Mansukh Mandaviya in Tokyo on Friday morning. 

He is visiting Japan to guide India’s delegation to the twentieth Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.

India will look to construct on their record-breaking medal haul at Hangzhou 2023 when the twentieth Asian Games get underway in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on Saturday (September 19), with a robust contingent that includes Olympic medallists and reigning champions throughout a number of disciplines.

‘Ambassador Mallick was happy to welcome Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya @mansukhmandviya in Tokyo this morning. Minister Mandaviya is visiting Japan, main the Indian delegation for the twentieth Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. His go to can even be a lift to India-Japan cooperation in youth affairs, sports activities, and people-to-people ties,’ the Embassy of India in Japan wrote in an X put up.

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India can be in motion throughout cricket, gentle tennis and teqball on a busy Friday on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026.

The day will start with the Indian males’s gentle tennis workforce taking up Laos in Group C, earlier than going through Chinese Taipei and Mongolia. Indian athletes can even compete in girls’s singles and blended doubles in teqball, with occasions scheduled throughout the morning and afternoon.

The primary focus can be on the Indian girls’s cricket quarter-final in opposition to hosts Japan. 

India head into the Asian Games on the again of a record-extending eighth Asia Cup title, having defeated Sri Lanka within the ultimate final week, whereas Japan can be showing within the Asian Games cricket competitors for the third time. 

Ranked third within the T20I standings, India are the highest-ranked aspect within the eight-team girls’s competitors and can enter the event as one of many main contenders for the title. The match in opposition to Japan can even mark the first-ever assembly between the 2 sides.

Meanwhile, Japan face a tricky problem in opposition to a robust Indian aspect. Ranked thirty ninth within the girls’s T20I workforce rankings, Japan can be making their third look in cricket on the Asian Games. (ANI)