“Nagoya and Japan have written a proud new chapter in cricket’s history”: ICC Chairman Jay Shah congratulates Team India on Asian Games gold

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], October 3 (ANI): Team India celebrates a historic double on the Asian Games as the boys’s staff clinched the Gold medal in Nagoya, following the ladies’s staff’s Gold-winning marketing campaign final week. 

It is India’s second straight males’s cricket Gold on the Asian Games, because the Men in Blue continued their golden run in T20Is this 12 months, following their second consecutive ICC Men’s T20 World Cup title earlier this 12 months.

ICC Chairman Jay Shah, BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President PT Usha, amongst others, had been in attendance as Jay Shah introduced the Gold medals to Shreyas Iyer-led Team India.

“Nagoya and Japan have written a proud new chapter in cricket’s historical past. Congratulations to Team India on a marketing campaign worthy of this second, and heartfelt thanks to each competing nation, to the Olympic Council of Asia and organisers whose imaginative and prescient introduced us right here, and to the 1000’s of followers whose presence reminded us why cricket is so particular anyplace on the planet,’ ICC Chairman Jay Shah mentioned after Team India clinched the Asiad Gold.

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Following the ladies’s staff’s triumph, India’s males additionally defeated Pakistan by 19 runs within the gold medal conflict on the ongoing Asian Games on Saturday, with stellar performances from Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma and Axar Patel powering the staff to victory.

Chasing a large goal of 212, Pakistan’s Hasan Nawaz stood out as a lone warrior, smashing 96 off simply 51 balls. However, India’s bowlers saved the strain on, with Washington Sundar, Axar Patel and Shivam Dube claiming two wickets every. 

Earlier, India posted a commanding 211/6 in 20 overs within the males’s cricket closing of the 2026 Asian Games in Nisshin on Saturday.

Opener Abhishek Sharma offered a blazing begin with 61 off 28 balls, whereas Tilak Varma remained unbeaten on 51 off 22 balls and Shivam Dube contributed a fast 27 off 14 balls, powering India previous the 200-run mark. (ANI)