Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 24 (ANI): The Indian males’s group had an indoor web session forward of the beginning of their Asian Games cricket marketing campaign.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) posted a video of Sanju Samson and different group members sweating it out within the nets. Head coach VVS Laxman was additionally current for the session.
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India accomplished their title defence in girls’s cricket, with India beating Sri Lanka by 147 runs beneath the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur.
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 idea of being a higher-seeded group after the ultimate was washed out. The group was led by Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain and Indian middle-order batter Ruturaj Gaikwad.
Now, the boys’s group can be led by ‘Sarpanch Sahab’, Shreyas Iyer, India’s T20 captain and the ladies’s group can be led by Harmanpreet, who achieved her greatest career-defining second final 12 months by main India to their maiden 50-over World Cup on house soil, beating South Africa. The girls’s competitors commences on September 18 towards Japan within the quarterfinal, adopted by the boys’s event from September 24. The Indian group’s males’s cricket opener is undecided, with a qualifying event to determine their opponent.
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, can 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)