the BCCI on Friday introduced the ladies’s workforce which is able to participate within the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Games, scheduled to start out from September 23 and finish on October 8. The girls’s cricket competitors will happen from September 19-28 within the T20 format.
The workforce will likely be led by 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 was a part of two editions of the Asiad, in 2010 and 2014, however India didn’t discipline a workforce. After being unnoticed of the 2018 Asiad in Jakarta, cricket has returned to the programme for the Hangzhou Games, which have been presupposed to be held final 12 months however have been postponed attributable to 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 Women (@BCCIWomen) July 14, 2023
In June, the Indian Express had reported that the BCCI will discipline their males’s and girls’s groups on the Asian Games.
The males’s workforce will likely be a B squad as a result of the primary workforce will likely be within the midst of the 50-over World Cup to be performed at dwelling.
Earlier, the Indian board had cited prior commitments as the explanation for not coming into the lads’s and girls’s groups for the continental mega occasion. “We have entries in all sports except one – cricket (team) isn’t going,” India’s chef de mission for the Asian Games, Bhupender Bajwa had instructed The Indian Express earlier. “They said they are preoccupied. We sent around 3-4 emails to them but when we had to send entries to the organisers, they said they won’t go.”
Standby listing of gamers: Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque, Pooja Vastrakar https://t.co/s8Xsjkwgkc
— BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) July 14, 2023
This shouldn’t be the primary time the BCCI will likely be fielding two nationwide groups. In 1998, one Indian workforce competed on the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur whereas one other confronted Pakistan within the Sahara Cup. More not too long ago, in 2021, Shikhar Dhawan led a second-string Indian workforce for a collection in Sri Lanka whereas one other workforce, captained by Virat Kohli, was within the UK forward of a Test collection towards England.
Meanwhile, India has already despatched squads for giant sports activities reminiscent of taking pictures, boxing, archery and badminton have already been introduced by the respective nationwide sports activities federations (NSFs).
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
Standby listing of gamers: Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque, Pooja Vastrakar
