Gambhir visits Siddhivinayak, seeks blessings ahead of T20 World Cup

India caput manager Gautam Gambhir paid a sojourn to the Shree Siddhivinayak Temple connected Thursday, offering prayers to Lord Ganesha up of the team’s location T20 World Cup campaign. He was joined by batting manager Sitanshu Hargovindbhai Kotak during the visit.

The defending champions statesman their rubric defence connected Saturday erstwhile they instrumentality connected the United States of America astatine the Wankhede Stadium, a venue steeped successful Indian cricket history.

Gambhir has made it a constituent to question blessings during caller tours arsenic well. Earlier successful the season, helium visited the Kamakhya Temple successful Guwahati earlier the 3rd T20I of the five-match bid against New Zealand. Following that match, Gambhir and the Indian squad besides offered prayers astatine the Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha temple successful Simhachalam, Visakhapatnam, up of the 4th T20I. Led by Suryakumar Yadav, India participate the tourney arsenic 1 of the standout favourites. A palmy run would spot the Men successful Blue go the archetypal squad to support a men’s T20 World Cup title. With nary big federation ever having won the trophy, India person the accidental to execute thing unprecedented, and stopping them from reaching some landmarks would necessitate an exceptional effort. India’s extent and prime successful the shortest format acceptable them apart.

This squad is wide viewed arsenic stronger than the squad that went unbeaten crossed conditions successful the USA and West Indies 2 years ago. Their past T20I bid decision came successful August 2023, and since the erstwhile World Cup, they person recorded an awesome win–loss ratio of 6.5 successful a format known for abrupt swings. Preparation has besides been thorough. Under Suryakumar’s leadership, India precocious claimed five-match T20I bid victories implicit South Africa and New Zealand, further underlining their power implicit the Proteas. That dominance continued connected Wednesday with a 30-run triumph implicit South Africa successful the authoritative warm-up match, arsenic India look to transportation beardown momentum into their opening clash against the USA.