Director of Cricket on the BCCI‘s Centre of Excellence (CoE), VVS Laxman, will take cost of the Indian males’s group on the upcoming Asian Games, which will probably be held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, later this month. Amol Muzumdar will proceed as the top coach of the Indian ladies’s group.
This would be the second time Laxman has served as coach of the Indian males’s group on the Asian Video games, following his involvement in 2022, in Hangzhou, China, when the nation received the gold medal.
Laxman may have Sunil Joshi, Hrishikesh Kanitkar and Subhadeep Ghosh as his help coaches through the Asiad, in keeping with the discharge by the Sports activities Ministry.
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Common Indian males’s group coach Gautam Gambhir won’t be obtainable for the journey to Japan, as he will probably be with the ODI group at dwelling for the collection towards West Indies, which begins on September 27.
The cricket match on the Asian Video games will start on September 17. The boys’s occasion will get underway per week later, on September 24, with India to play their first match on September 28.
Muzumdar will proceed as the ladies’s group head coach for the Asian Video games, and will probably be assisted by bowling coach Aavishkar Salvi and fielding coach Munish Bali. The ladies’s occasion will get underway on September 17, with India, defending champions, to tackle Japan within the quarters.
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 ladies’s group will even defend its title and will probably be led by Harmanpreet Kaur.
Indian cricket groups at Asian Video games 2026:
Indian males’s cricket 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 ladies’s cricket 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.
