Why Indian Team wearing black armbands today during T20 World Cup match vs Namibia

Gurpreet Singh | 08/11/2021
Why Indian Team wearing black armbands today during T20 World Cup match vs Namibia

Why Indian Team wearing black armbands today?: Indian cricketers are seen wearing black armbands during their final  2021 World T20 match 

The Super 12, Group 2 match of the 2021 ICC T20 World Cup between India and Namibia at the Dubai International Stadium is underway with India skipper Virat Kohli winning the Toss and deciding to bowl first in what is a dead rubber game for both the teams.

“We’ll bowl first. The tosses have been a big factor, and when I’ve won a couple we’ll do what we wanted to do from Day 1. Rahul Chahar comes in for Varun Chakravarthy for today’s game,” Kohli said at the toss.

Why Indian Team wearing black armbands today versus Namibia?

As both the teams walked towards the park for singing their respective national anthems, the Indian team players were seen donning the black armbands. They did so to pay homage and respect to the legendary cricket coach from Delhi- Mr. Tarak Sinha, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 71 after a battle with cancer.

Sinha is renowned for coaching players across generations and the list comprises Surinder Khanna, Manoj Prabhakar, Ajay Sharma, Atul Wassan, Ashish Nehra, Sanjeev Sharma, Aakash Chopra, Shikhar Dhawan, Anjum Chopra and Rishabh Pant.

Tarak Sinha was the renowned coach from Delhi’s famous Sonnet Cricket Club. Mr Sinha was conferred with the lifetime Dronacharya Award in 2018.

“It is with heavy heart we have to share this tragic news of Shri Tarak Sinha, the founder of Sonnet Club, has left us for heavenly abode at 3 am on Saturday after a brave battle with lung cancer for two months,” the Sonnet Cricket Club had said in a statement on Saturday.
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Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

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