In a first of sorts and a rare meeting of its kind, the Indian cricket team met the Indian Air Force's Suryakiran Aerobatic team at Nagpur on Saturday. The Board of Control for Cricket in India posted pictures of the Indian team members shaking hands with the daredevils pilots of the IAF in Nagpur at the VCA stadium.

The pictures showed coach Ravi Shastri, opener Shikhar Dhawan and wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant shaking hands with the pilots and interacting with them.


Photographs of Pant and Shastri with the pilots were also posted along-with those of bowling coach Bharat Arun, Shardul Thakur, Shubman Gill and Manish Pandey.

India are set to take on Bangladesh in the decisive third T20I in Nagpur on Sunday. Bangladesh won the first match by seven wickets -- their first ever win over India in the shortest format of the game. However, India bounced back by hammering Bangladesh by eight wickets in the second match and thus leveled the series.