Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 27 (ANI): Workforce India started coaching on Sunday forward of their males’s cricket marketing campaign on the Asian Video games, with the facet set to start its marketing campaign towards Afghanistan on Monday.
Through 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. After the ladies’s workforce secured gold within the cricket competitors, the Indian males’s facet will now look to proceed the nation’s medal-winning run and goal for a double podium end in cricket.
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.
Throughout Workforce 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 idea 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 boys’s workforce might 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 Video games. Shreyas, who has gained 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, might 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)