Former India batter and Director of Cricket on the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence, VVS Laxman, is about to journey with the Indian males’s workforce to Japan and can take cost as head coach within the absence of Gautam Gambhir for the 2026 Asian Video games in Aichi-Nagoya later this month.Gautam Gambhir will stay with the senior aspect for India’s house ODI sequence towards the West Indies. The primary ODI is scheduled to be performed on September 27.Laxman shall be assisted by former India spinner Sunil Joshi, Hrishikesh Kanitkar and Subhadeep Ghosh, in accordance with the checklist of coaches launched by the Sports activities Ministry. The development was earlier reported by TimesofIndia.com in July.Laxman has earlier Asian Video games expertise, having coached the Indian males’s workforce on the 2023 version in Hangzhou, China, the place India received the gold medal.
India to defend Males’s and Girls’s Asian Video games cricket titles
The cricket competitors on the Asian Video games will start on September 24, with India scheduled to play its opening males’s match on September 28. India will defend its males’s T20 title beneath captain Shreyas Iyer, with teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi additionally a part of the squad. The boys’s workforce will face the second-placed aspect from Group A, which contains Afghanistan, Japan and Nepal.The Indian girls’s workforce may also enter the match as defending champions and shall be led by Harmanpreet Kaur. The ladies’s aspect will enter the competitors on the quarterfinal stage and face hosts Japan. Amol Muzumdar will proceed as the pinnacle coach of the ladies’s workforce, with bowling coach Aavishkar Salvi and fielding coach Munish Bali finishing his assist workers.
Indian cricket groups for Asian Video games 2026
Indian males’s workforce: 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 workforce: 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.
