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The Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced on Friday the men’s and women’s teams that will participate in the upcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou, which is scheduled to start from September 23 and end on October 8. The competition will run from September 28th to October 8th. Both competitions will be held in T20 formats.
The men’s team will be led by Ruturaj Gaikwad and boast the talents of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rahul Tripathi, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh and more. The likes of Yash Thakur, Sai Kishore, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda and Sai Sudharsan are on standby.
Rinku, whose exclusion from the Caribbean T20s series was questioned, made the cut while Dube, Jaiswal, Varma and Prabhsimran Singh were the others picked at the back of the stellar IPL. It was a season of maturity for Dube who helped CSK win a record equaling fifth title.
Jaiswal scored a hundred on his Test debut against the West Indies on Thursday before becoming only the third Indian to score 150 on his debut for India.
NEWS 🚨- Team India (Senior Men) 19th Asian Games Team: Ruturaj Gaekwad (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rahul Tripathi, Tilak Varma, Renko Singh, Jetch Sharma (WEEK), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Avish Khan , Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Shivam Mavi, Shivam…
– BCCI (BCCI) July 14, 2023
Tilak was also named in the squad that will face the West Indies in a five-match series from 3 August.
Gaikwad, who will lead the team in China, is currently with the Test squad in the Caribbean. Wicketkeeper’s batsman Jitesh Sharma and left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh are also part of the team.
Meanwhile, the women’s team will be captained by Harmanpreet Kaur with Smriti Mandana as her deputy. Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque and Pooja Vastrakar are in the standby list.
Young footballer Titas Sadhu, who impressed India in their title-winning campaign at the inaugural U-19 Women’s World Cup in South Africa, has also been added. The 18-year-old is not part of the Indian team who are currently in Bangladesh.
Rookier spinners Minnu Mani and Anusha Bareddy, who are found in Bangladesh, are included. Wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh, who was dropped from the Bangladesh tour, also returned on fitness pitches.
Cricket has been a part of two editions of Asia, in 2010 and 2014, but India did not field a team. After being left out of the 2018 Asian Championships in Jakarta, cricket has returned to the program for the Hangzhou Games, which were supposed to take place last year but were postponed due to China’s coronavirus policy.
Team – Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Amanjot Kaur, Devika Vaidya, Anjali Sarvani, Titas Sadhu, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Minnu Ahuja Mani, Kanika Uma Chhetri (week), Anusha Paredy
– BCCI Women (BCCI Women) July 14, 2023
In June, the Indian Express reported that the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry would take part in both men’s and women’s teams in the Asian Games.
The men’s team will be B-class because the main team will be in the midst of the 50-year World Cup at home.
Earlier, the Indian Governing Council cited past commitments as the reason for the men’s and women’s teams not entering the mega-continental event. “We have participations in all sports except one – (the) cricket team will not be attending,” Bhupender Bajwa, Indian chef for the Asian Games, said earlier. They said they are busy. We sent them about 3-4 emails but when we had to send entries to the organizers, they said they weren’t going.”
List of backup players: Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque, Pooja Vastrakar
– BCCI Women (BCCI Women) July 14, 2023
This is not the first time that the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry has sent two national teams. In 1998, an Indian team participated in the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur while another team faced Pakistan in the Desert Cup. Recently, in 2021, Shikhar Dhawan captained an Indian team from the second series to a series in Sri Lanka, while another team, captained by Virat Kohli, was in the UK ahead of a Test series against England.
Meanwhile, India has already fielded teams for big sports like shooting, boxing, shooting and badminton which have already been announced by the respective National Sports Federations (NSFs).
India men’s team: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rahul Tripathi, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jetch Sharma (WK), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Avish Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Shivam Mavi, Shivam Dobera, Prabash (week)
List of backup players: Yash Thakur, Sai Kishore, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Sai Sudarsan
India women’s team: Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (WK), Amanjot Kaur, Devika Vaidya, Anjali Sarvani, Titas Sadhu, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Uma Mani, Kanika Ahuja, Uma Mani , Kanika Ahuja (week), Anusha Paredy
List of standby players: Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque and Pooja Vastrakar
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