New Delhi [India], September 3 (ANI): Director of Cricket on the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence (CoE), VVS Laxman, goes to take cost of the Indian males’s group on the upcoming Asian 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 checklist of coaches launched by the Sports Ministry.
Laxman had additionally coached the Indian males’s group on the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, the place India received the gold medal.
Regular head coach Gautam Gambhir will likely be with the senior group for the house ODI collection towards the West Indies, with the primary ODI scheduled to be performed on September 27.
The cricket competitors on the Asian 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 ladies’s group. Muzumdar will likely be assisted by bowling coach Aavishkar Salvi and fielding coach Munish Bali.
The Indian ladies’s group will enter the competitors on the quarterfinal stage and face Japan, whereas the boys’s group will tackle the second-placed facet from Group A, comprising Afghanistan, Japan and Nepal.
In cricket, India will defend its males’s T20 Asian Games title underneath captain Shreyas Iyer, with teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi additionally a part of the squad. The Indian ladies’s group may also defend its title and will likely be led by Harmanpreet Kaur.
Indian cricket groups at Asian 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. (ANI)