{"id":9243,"date":"2025-09-30T21:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=642714"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:09:57","slug":"gill-and-gambhir-return-to-test-preparations-after-asia-cup-triumph-bcci-announces-rs-21-crore-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/gill-and-gambhir-return-to-test-preparations-after-asia-cup-triumph-bcci-announces-rs-21-crore-reward\/","title":{"rendered":"Gill and Gambhir return to Test preparations after Asia Cup triumph, BCCI announces Rs 21 crore reward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"190\" data-end=\"453\">Just two days after lifting the Asia Cup trophy in Dubai, India captain Shubman Gill and head coach Gautam Gambhir were spotted at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on September 30 as preparations began for the upcoming Test series against the West Indies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"455\" data-end=\"929\">India clinched their ninth Asia Cup title on September 28 with a thrilling five-wicket win over Pakistan. While the victory itself drew celebrations, the bigger surprise came in the form of prize announcements. The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) awarded India USD 300,000 (\u20b92.6 crore) as official winners\u2019 purse. Soon after, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced a massive \u20b921 crore reward for the champions \u2014 nearly eight times the official prize money.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"931\" data-end=\"1258\">The swift transition from celebrations in Dubai to red-ball focus in Ahmedabad highlights India\u2019s packed cricketing calendar. Gill and Gambhir\u2019s presence in the Test camp signals an early shift in attention to the West Indies challenge, marking the start of a new era in Indian Test cricket under the young captain-coach duo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two days after lifting the Asia Cup trophy in Dubai, India captain Shubman Gill and head coach Gautam Gambhir\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":31933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}