New Delhi, Sept. 21 -- Japan would be hosting three-time T20 World Cup winners India in a historic one-game bilateral encounter on Tuesday, at the Sano International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. The match scheduled at Sano, 100 km from Tokyo, which is now deemed as "Japanese Cricket Capital", will be an experience of a lifetime for the 11 players, most of whom are second generation Japanese citizens of dual heritage.

Watching from the stands will be two Indian-origin Japanese cricketers Abhishek Anand and Sabaorish Ravichandran, who would blaming their luck to be not being able to rub shoulders in the middle with some of the individuals whom they cheer for on television screens.

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