Indian men’s cricket captain Suryakumar Yadav on Monday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ‘batting on the front foot’ against Pakistan, saying that his leadership boosted the cricketers’ confidence and made them play more ‘freely’. He was speaking a day after his team secured a five-wicket win over Pakistan in the final of the 2025 Asia Cup at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

Only minutes after India completed the win with Rinku Singh hitting the winning boundary in the last over, PM Modi took to social media to call it ‘Operation Sindoor on the game’s field’. He related the cricket triumph to the country’s army operation in May, where they tactically struck down terror infrastructure in Pakistan in retaliation for the Pahlgam attack in Kashmir, where gunmen brutally killed

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