Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Friday proficient his Australian counterpart Marise Payne a cricket bat signed via way of means of cricketer Virat Kohli for the duration of a go to to the enduring Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Mr Jaishankar, who attended the critical assembly of Quad Foreign Ministers, visited Australia’s biggest and maximum respected sports activities stadium at the side of Ms Payne, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa, in a “becoming cease to a hectic day”.
Ms Payne hosted the Quad Foreign Ministers’ assembly.
“Quad FMs go to the @MCG. Presented @MarisePayne with a bat signed via way of means of @imVkohli,” Mr Jaishankar, who’s in Australia on his first journey to the united states as External Affairs Minister, stated on Twitter at the side of a photo.
“A message of honest play and policies of the game,” Mr Jaishankar added, in an obvious message to China, that’s flexing its muscle tissues withinside the Indo-Pacific region.
Virat Kohli, the 33-year-antique famous person whose country wide captaincy tenure currently ended after he relinquished Test leadership, is India’s batting mainstay throughout formats. He is the maximum a hit Indian Test skipper with forty wins in sixty eight games.
The MCG, mounted in 1853, much less than two decades after the founding of Melbourne, has been the house of Australian soccer considering the fact that 1859, and become the birthplace of Test cricket in 1877 and one-day worldwide cricket in 1971.
The stadium, which has a seating capability of over 1,00,000, is Australia’s largest carrying facility. The MCG is nestled in Yarra Park, approximately a 10-minute stroll from the coronary heart of Melbourne city.
Mr Jaishankar is journeying Australia on the invitation of his Australian counterpart Ms Payne.
He kicked off his authentic go to with a assembly with Australia’s Defence Minister Peter Dutton.