V V S Laxman, the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence chief, is about to educate the Indian males’s cricket group on the Asian Video games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
IMAGE: V V S Laxman had coached the Indian males’s group on the 2023 Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China, the place India received the gold medal. {Photograph}: BCCI
Key Factors
- VVS Laxman will function head coach for the Indian males’s cricket group on the Asian Video games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
- Laxman beforehand coached the gold-winning Indian males’s group on the 2023 Asian Video games.
- Gautam Gambhir will coach the senior group for the West Indies ODI sequence, whereas Amol Muzumdar leads the ladies’s group.
- Each Indian males’s and girls’s cricket groups will defend their T20 Asian Video games titles.
BCCI’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) chief V V S Laxman, goes to take cost of the Indian males’s group on the upcoming Asian Video games 2026 to be held n Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, later this month.
Laxman will likely be assisted by Sunil Joshi, Hrishikesh Kanitkar and Subhadeep Ghosh, as per the record of coaches launched by the Sports activities Ministry.
India’s Teaching Workers And Title Defence
The batting nice had additionally coached the Indian males’s group on the 2023 Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China, the place India received the gold medal.
Common head coach Gautam Gambhir will likely be with the senior group for the house ODI sequence in opposition to the West Indies, with the primary ODI scheduled to be performed on September 27.
The cricket competitors on the Asian Video games will start on September 24, with India set to play its opening match 4 days later.
Amol Muzumdar will proceed as the top coach of the Indian girls’s group. He will likely be assisted by bowling coach Aavishkar Salvi and fielding coach Munish Bali.
The Indian girls’s group will enter the competitors on the quarter-final stage and face Japan, whereas the lads’s group will tackle the second-placed aspect from Group A, comprising Afghanistan, Japan and Nepal.
In cricket, India will defend its males’s T20 Asian Video games title underneath captain Shreyas Iyer, with teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi additionally a part of the squad. The Indian girls’s group may also defend its title and will likely be led by Harmanpreet Kaur.
India’s cricket groups at Asian Video games 2026:
India males’s group: Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.
Indian girls’s group: Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Pratika Rawal, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh, Gunalan Kamalini, Bharti Fulmali, Sree Charani, Renuka Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Radha Yadav, Nandani Sharma.
