Birmingham

There was no Indian team competing in 3x3 basketball as the T20 version of the sport made its debut in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games on Friday.

However, a person with connection to India still made history, by scoring the first basket in the new sport that is getting a lot of attention in recent times and was even included in the Tokyo Olympics.

Bikramjit Gill, a Canadian of Indian origin etched his name in the history books by scoring the first basket in the Commonwealth Games' first ever 3x3 basketball match.

Canada beat Kenya 15-12 in the opening men's Pool A match at.

Gill had recently grown his hair as a symbol of his Sikh faith after trimming it for many years to gel with the local crowd in Malton, Ontario.

He is the only Sikh-Canadian basketball player competing at the professional level.

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He comes from a family of basketball players as his father played for the Indian national team while his older brother played at the university level.