German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday visited the M Chinnaswamy cricket stadium right here and interacted with women and men gamers of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru workforce. Scholz spoke to the officers of the Karnataka State Cricket Affiliation (KSCA), RCB women and men workforce members for about quarter-hour. The Chancellor understands that cricket is India’s primary ardour in terms of sports activities, a German Embassy official stated. “In Germany, cricket just isn’t as well-liked. Though greater than 200,000 Indians in Germany are popularising the game there,” he stated. So, Scholz wished to acclimatise himself in regards to the sport and what cricket means to India, the official added.

We had the acute honour and privilege of internet hosting the Hon’ble Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany at Namma Chinnaswamy Stadium. His Excellency referred to as on RCB’s WPL camp immediately. #PlayBold #WPL2023 pic.twitter.com/A9ax81K115

— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) February 26, 2023

“Furthermore, he wished to grasp what the RCB, each the boys’s and girls’s workforce, imply to the town, particularly because the RCB girls’s workforce embark on the primary season of the Girls’s Premier League,” the official additional stated.

Earlier, the German Chancellor arrived on the Kempegowda Worldwide Airport within the afternoon. Karnataka Well being Minister Okay Sudhakar, together with the German Consulate officers and Bengaluru Police Commissioner C H Pratap Reddy acquired him.

Later, Sudhakar tweeted: “Welcomed the Chancellor of Germany, His Excellency @OlafScholz to Bangalore at Kempegowda Worldwide Airport immediately. That is the primary go to from a Chancellor of Germany to India, since 2011, when the Inter-Governmental Session (IGC) was arrange between our two nations.” Scholz is on a two-day journey to India. On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral talks with the visiting German Chancellor in Delhi. PTI GMS HDA

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