Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 27 (ANI): Threat of rains looms over India’s Asian Games marketing campaign opener in opposition to Afghanistan on Tuesday, in line with Cricinfo. Â
Shreyas Iyer’s males and back-to-back T20 World Cup champions India will probably be eyeing the profitable defence of their Asian Games gold medal and a double medal in cricket for India on the second successive Asian Games version.Â
However, there may be heavy rain anticipated at Nisshin on Monday with an opportunity that the sport might face an entire washout. In that case, India will attain the semifinals due to increased seeding on the premise of their T20I Ranking. The final two matches on the bottom, performed on Friday, between Malaysia and Oman (full washout) and Japan versus Nepal (no end result) have been additionally affected by rain.Â
Team India started coaching on Sunday forward of their males’s cricket marketing campaign on the Asian Games, with the facet set to start its marketing campaign in opposition to Afghanistan on Monday.
During the coaching session, left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh, Shivam Dube, Ishan Kishan, skipper Shreyas Iyer and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi have been among the many gamers current.
India accomplished their title defence in ladies’s cricket, with the Harmanpreet Kaur-led facet beating Sri Lanka by 147 runs to clinch the gold medal.
During Team India’s earlier go to to the Asian Games in Hangzhou, a few of India’s future T20 World Cup-winning stars introduced the gold medal to India, beating Afghanistan on the premise of being a higher-seeded workforce after the ultimate was washed out.
The workforce was led by Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain and Indian middle-order batter Ruturaj Gaikwad. Now, the boys’s workforce will probably be led by ‘Sarpanch Sahab’, Shreyas Iyer, India’s T20 captain.
The presence of a number of of India’s main worldwide gamers makes this one of many nation’s strongest cricket contingents on the Asian Games. Shreyas, who has received an Indian Premier League (IPL) title with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), a Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) for Mumbai as a captain and led Delhi Capitals (DC) and, in 2025, Punjab Kings (PBKS) to the IPL finals, will probably be aiming to get one other accolade as a captain.
*India males’s cricket squad for Asian Games 2026: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper), Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma (vice-captain), Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Vipraj Nigam, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Yash Thakur, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. (ANI)