India in the Asian Games 2023: Jun Yu, a cricket enthusiast from China, traveled 1200 km from Beijing to Hangzhou to see “Goddess Mandhana” compete at the 2023 Asian Games. Smriti Mandhana, the vice-captain of the Indian women’s cricket team, earned a historic gold medal in the 2018 Asian Games in Hangzhou. India’s women’s cricket team won their first-ever gold medal in cricket at the Asian Games after defeating Sri Lanka’s women’s cricket team (97/8) by 19 runs in the women’s T20I final. The top two batsmen were Smriti Mandhana (46) and Jemimah Rodrigues (42 runs), while 18-year-old bowler Titas Sadhu claimed three wickets.
Mandana Fan On India’s Gold Medal At Asian Games 2023
“I watched both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, thus I witnessed Jasprit Bumrah’s World Cup 2019 outing against Australia. They are the game’s all-time greats right now. Suryakumar Yadav and Jaspreet Bumrah are the next two. In the 2019 World Cup match against Australia, Bumrah was outstanding,” Yu said when PTI met up with him following the gold medal game.
“My Beijing university offers cricket instruction. I thus have some knowledge of it,” Yu remarked.
Yu provided some fascinating knowledge about the cricket stadium for the Games, which was once a flower garden.
There aren’t many cricket fields, players, or spectators in China, and many don’t even understand how it’s done. Only Guangzhou has a dedicated cricket stadium, where matches were played during the 2010 Asian Games. His explanation was historical.
Yu was one of the diverse group of people who showed up at the Pingfeng cricket pitch on the campus of Zhejiang University of Technology. The location is not a legitimate cricket stadium.
He said, “I don’t play cricket, despite my desire to do so. Additionally, no adequate ground exists. Before the Asian Games, this area of the field was a flowerbed. For the Asian Games, a cricket pitch was created there.”
He claimed that before the Asian Games, a few warm-up matches were played there.
Yu admires Tendulkar, but his favorite cricketer is a New Zealander. “My favorite player is Kane Williamson, but Sachin Tendulkar is a legend of the game,” said Yu, a master’s student in zoology at a Beijing university.
But when the Asian Games begin on Wednesday, Yu won’t wait for the Indian men’s team to participate.
