NEW DELHI: Rahul Narwekar, speaker of the state legislature, said in the House on Thursday that four Mumbai players participating in the
T20 World Cup
cricket team would be honored on Friday at the Maharashtra
Vidhan Bhavan
complex in Mumbai.
Mumbai natives
Rohit Sharma
,
Suryakumar Yadav
,
Shivam Dube
, and
Yashasvi Jaiswal
were all in India's T20 World Cup team.
An 11-year drought for an
ICC trophy
came to an end on June 29 as the
Indian cricket team
won the nation's second T20 world title.
India's most recent ICC championship came from winning the
Champions Trophy
in 2013 while captained by
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
.
Sena Shiv MLA Pratap Sarnaik brought up the matter on Thursday during the Mumbai players' assembly that was previously honored at Vidhan Bhavan, according to PTI.
The city's players will be honored on Friday afternoon in the Vidhan Bhavan, according to Speaker Narwekar.
On Thursday morning, the triumphant Indian squad from the T20 World Cup arrived back in New Delhi from Barbados to an ecstatic reception.