Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 24 (ANI): The Indian males’s workforce had an indoor web session forward of the beginning of their Asian Video games cricket marketing campaign.
The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) posted a video of Sanju Samson and different workforce 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 ladies’s cricket, with India beating Sri Lanka by 147 runs below the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur.
Throughout Crew India’s earlier go to to the Asian Video 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 Tremendous Kings (CSK) captain and Indian middle-order batter Ruturaj Gaikwad.
Now, the lads’s workforce shall be led by ‘Sarpanch Sahab’, Shreyas Iyer, India’s T20 captain and the ladies’s workforce shall be led by Harmanpreet, who achieved her greatest career-defining second final yr by main India to their maiden 50-over World Cup on house soil, beating South Africa. The ladies’s competitors commences on September 18 towards Japan within the quarterfinal, adopted by the lads’s match from September 24. The Indian workforce’s males’s cricket opener is undecided, with a qualifying match 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 Video 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, shall be aiming to get one other accolade as a captain.
*India males’s cricket squad for Asian Video 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)
