New Delhi. Team India is busy preparing for the Asia Cup as well as the ODI World Cup. The Asia Cup matches are scheduled to be held in Pakistan and Sri Lanka from August 30. At the same time, the World Cup will be played in India from October 5. Under the captaincy of Rituraj Gaekwad, Team India will be seen playing in the Asian Games for the first time. These matches are to be held in China from September 23 to October 8. Rahul Dravid will not accompany Team India as a coach for the Games. Meanwhile, the World Cup is going to be held. In such a situation, NCA chief and former Indian legend VVS Laxman has been entrusted with this responsibility.
According to the news of Times of India, VVS Laxman will go to China with the team as the chief coach. Apart from this, Sairaj Bahutule as the bowling coach and Munish Bali as the fielding coach will also be part of the Asian Games with the Indian team. As for the women’s team, Ritikesh Kaniktar has been appointed as the head coach of the women’s team for the Asian Games. Kanikatar has played 2 Tests and 34 ODIs for Team India. He was also with the team in the T20 World Cup in South Africa in February. Rajib Dutta as bowling coach and Subhdeep Ghosh as fielding coach will go to China with the women’s team.
Board AGM on 25 September
Meanwhile, the BCCI AGM is going to be held on September 25 in Mumbai. The last AGM was held on 18 October 2022. As for the Asian Games, the Indian women’s and men’s teams are participating in it for the first time. Cricket has been included in the Games for the third time. Matches are to be held here based on the T20 format. The Indian team has directly qualified for the quarter finals. Cricket was included in the Games for the first time in 2010. Then, in the men’s category, Bangladesh managed to win the gold and Afghanistan’s team managed to win the silver medal. Pakistan got bronze. Sri Lanka won the gold medal in 2014. Afghanistan got silver while Bangladesh got bronze medal.
Pakistan won 2 golds
If we look at the record of women category, Pakistan team has won gold medal in both 2010 and 2014. Both times, the Bangladesh women’s team won the silver medal. In 2010, Japan got success while in 2014, the Sri Lankan team managed to win the bronze medal. Talking about total 12 medals in both categories in Asia Games, Bangladesh got 4 medals and Pakistan 3 medals. Sri Lanka and Afghanistan have won 2 medals each. Japan got a medal.
Indian team for Asian Games
Men’s Team: Rituraj Gaikwad (c), Yashshwi Jaiswal, Rahul Tripathi, Tilak Verma, Rinku Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Shivam Mavi, Shivam Dubey, Prabhasimran Singh (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan Arshdeep Singh.
Women’s Team: Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shefali Verma, Jemima Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Anjali Sarwani, Titas Sadhu, Richa Ghosh, Amanjot Kaur, Devika Vaidya, Irajeshwari Gaekwad, Meenu Mani, Kanika Ahuja, Uma Beredi, Anayase.
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Tags: Asian Games, Rahul Dravid, Team India, vvs Lakshmana
First published: August 27, 2023, 11:20 IST