Rising star Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi will be looking to acclimatise to local conditions when the Indian cricket team faces Japan in a one-off T20I at the Sano International Cricket Ground on Tuesday.
The Japan vs India one-off T20I will be available to watch on live streaming and telecast. The JPN vs IND T20I match will start at 9:30 AM IST.
India will enter the contest as two-time reigning T20 world champions and are ranked second in the format while Japan are 41st.
Officially called the Suzuki Cup, the one-off T20I marks the teams’ first-ever meeting and the inaugural event under Sport 75 - an initiative aimed at promoting sporting exchanges and cooperation as the two countries celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Ravi Bishnoi, both members of the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League, will be looking to make the most of the opportunity and fine-tune their preparations before the men’s cricket campaign at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, begins.
India will arrive in Japan after a 3-0 T20I series sweep of Afghanistan in New Delhi.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who did not feature in any of the three matches against Afghanistan, will be hoping to get some gametime against Japan.
The 15-year-old prodigy heads into the series on the back of a breakout year on the international stage following a stunning IPL campaign with the Royals that saw him win the Orange Cap after amassing 776 runs in 16 matches at a strike rate of 237.30.
After becoming the youngest Indian to play international cricket earlier this year, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was the Men in Blue’s leading scorer during their 3-0 T20I series win in Zimbabwe in July, scoring 151 runs in three matches at an average of 50.33 and a strike rate of 196.10.
He struck 50 off 19 balls in the opening match before making a career-best 81 off 49 deliveries in the third T20I. Sooryavanshi finished the series with two fifties and was named Player of the Series.
Ravi Bishnoi, meanwhile, played two out of the three matches against Afghanistan recently and picked up four wickets, including finishing with figures of 3/26 in the last match of the series.
A former world No. 1 T20I bowler, Ravi Bishnoi has taken 71 wickets in 51 matches at an economy of 7.48.
Where to watch Japan vs India one-off T20I 2026 live
Live streaming of the Japan vs India T20 2026 match will be available on FanCode. The JPN vs IND T20I, also known as the Suzuki Cup, will be telecast live on the Star Sports 1 and Star Sports 1 Hindi TV channels in India.
Japan vs India T20 2026 squads
Japan cricket team: Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming (captain), Charlie Hara-Hinze, Benjamin Ito-Davis, Alester Kadowaki-Fleming, Kohei Kubota, Jake Kusuda-Nairn, Wataru Miyauchi (wicket-keeper), Reo Sakurano-Thomas, Alex Shirai-Patmore (wicket-keeper), Shoma Sugaya-Slater, Declan Suzuki-McComb, Tsuyoshi Takada, Ibrahim Takahashi, Makoto Taniyama, Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake.
Indian cricket team: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper), Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma (vice-captain), Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Yash Thakur, Vipraj Nigam.
