the BCCI on Friday introduced the ladies’s crew which can participate within the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Video games, scheduled to begin from September 23 and finish on October 8. The ladies’s cricket pageant will happen from September 19-28 within the T20 structure.
The crew can be led via captain Harmanpreet Kaur with Smriti Mandhana as her deputy. Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque and Pooja Vastrakar are within the standby listing.
Cricket used to be a part of two editions of the Asiad, in 2010 and 2014, however India didn’t box a crew. After being overlooked of the 2018 Asiad in Jakarta, cricket has returned to the programme for the Hangzhou Video games, which have been intended to be held final yr however had been postponed because of China’s zero-Covid coverage.
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 Mani, Kanika Ahuja, Uma Chetry (wk), Anusha Bareddy https://t.co/kJs9TQKZfw
— BCCI Ladies (@BCCIWomen) July 14, 2023
In June, the Indian Specific had reported that the BCCI will box their males’s and girls’s groups on the Asian Video games.
The boys’s crew can be a B squad since the major crew can be in the course of the 50-over Global Cup to be performed at house.
Previous, the Indian board had cited prior commitments as the cause of now not coming into the lads’s and girls’s groups for the continental mega tournament. “We’ve got entries in all sports activities excluding one – cricket (crew) isn’t going,” India’s chef de challenge for the Asian Video games, Bhupender Bajwa had advised The Indian Specific previous. “They mentioned they’re preoccupied. We despatched round 3-4 emails to them but if we needed to ship entries to the organisers, they mentioned they gained’t move.”
Standby listing of gamers: Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque, Pooja Vastrakar https://t.co/s8Xsjkwgkc
— BCCI Ladies (@BCCIWomen) July 14, 2023
This isn’t the primary time the BCCI can be fielding two nationwide groups. In 1998, one Indian crew competed on the Commonwealth Video games in Kuala Lumpur whilst some other confronted Pakistan within the Sahara Cup. Extra lately, in 2021, Shikhar Dhawan led a second-string Indian crew for a sequence in Sri Lanka while some other crew, captained via Virat Kohli, used to be in the United Kingdom forward of a Take a look at collection towards England.
In the meantime, India has already despatched squads for large sports activities reminiscent of capturing, boxing, archery and badminton have already been introduced via the respective nationwide sports activities federations (NSFs).
Workforce: 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 Mani, Kanika Ahuja, Uma Chetry (wk), Anusha Bareddy
Standby listing of gamers: Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque, Pooja Vastrakar