India and Japan are set to face off in opposition to one another for the primary time in worldwide cricket in a historic males’s T20I.
The Japan Cricket Affiliation (JCA) and the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed in an announcement that the 2 males’s groups will sq. off in a T20I on September 22 on the Sano Worldwide Cricket Floor in Tochigi Prefecture.
Either side are resulting from function within the males’s cricket event on the Asian Games 2026.
Whereas Japan will function within the group levels, India are resulting from seem straight within the quater-final spherical.
Having clinched the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup title earlier this 12 months, India will see the competition as a vital warm-up forward of the Asian Video games, the place they gained gold medal in males’s cricket competitors 4 years in the past, whereas Japan will look to achieve invaluable expertise from the conflict in opposition to among the world’s finest gamers.
