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After defeating New Zealand by 96 runs on Sunday (8 March), Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav and head coach Gautam Gambhir reached a Hanuman temple in Ahmedabad along with ICC Chairman Jay Shah with the trophy. Former cricketer Kirti Azad had raised questions regarding this.
Coach Gautam Gambhir scolded former cricketer Kirti Azad for raising questions on taking the trophy to the temple.
New Delhi. Team India's head coach Gautam Gambhir has given a befitting reply to former Indian all-rounder Kirti Azad. He had criticized the team's decision to visit the temple after India's victory in the final of the ICC T20 World Cup 2026. After defeating New Zealand by 96 runs at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday (March 8), Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav and head coach Gautam Gambhir reached a Hanuman temple in Ahmedabad with the trophy along with ICC Chairman Jay Shah.
Kirti Azad, who was a member of the team that won the World Cup for India in 1983, criticized this move by tweeting. He wrote, “When we won the World Cup in 1983 under the captaincy of Kapil Dev, there were Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians in our team. We brought the trophy not to our religious places, but to our country India. After all, why is the Indian cricket trophy being dragged? Why only temples? Why not mosques? Why not churches? Why not Gurudwaras?
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When we won the World Cup under Kapil Dev in 1983, we had Hindu Muslim Sikh and Christian in the team.
We brought the trophy to our religious birth place our motherland India Bharat Hindustan
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