KATHMANDU: Ambassador of India to Nepal Naveen Srivastava handed over professional sporting equipment, including 20 cricket bats to Nepal cricket team captain Rohit Paudel.
The equipment was handed over on behalf of B.P Koirala India-Nepal Foundation and the SJVN Ltd., a public sector undertaking of the Government of India.
The Nepal cricket team also presented to the Ambassador a signed jersey of the Nepal Cricket Team.
Ambassador Srivastava congratulated the Nepal national Cricket team on its gritty performance, especially in the recently held Asia Cup and Asian Games.
He added that the handing over would add a new strand to robust people-to-people ties between India and Nepal.
The ambassador wished the cricket team good luck for the upcoming tri-nation T20 Cup Finals and the ICC-T20 World Cup Qualifiers scheduled to begin at the end of the month.
The Embassy of India in Kathmandu, previously, provided a bus to the Cricket Association of Nepal in 2013 and vide the B.P. Koirala India-Nepal Foundation supported the Nepal Deaf Cricket Team for its participation in a triangular cricket tournament in Kolkata in April-May 2023.
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