The Indian males’s and ladies’s cricket squads for the Asian Games have been introduced by the BCCI on Friday. Ruturaj Gaikwad was captain of the lads’s squad for the Hangzhou Asian Games with IPL star Rinku Singh additionally getting his due. Rinku, whose exclusion from the T20I sequence within the Caribbean was questioned, has made the lower for the Asian Games scheduled from September 23 to October 8.

The continental video games coincide with the beginning of the ODI World Cup and that’s the reason a B group has been named. Shivam Dube, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma and Prabhsimran Singh are the others who’ve been picked behind a stellar IPL. It was a coming of age season for Dube who helped CSK win a file equalling fifth title.

Jaiswal scored 100 on his Test debut towards the West Indies on Thursday earlier than happening to develop into solely the third Indian to attain 150 in his first sport for India.

Tilak has additionally been named within the group which is able to face the West Indies in a five-match sequence from August 3. Former India captain and coach Ani Kumble feels that the chosen gamers are out of ODI World Cup competition (which begins on October 5) not less than for now.

“I think in the starting line-up yeah. There’s still time from now till October so anything can happen. If there is any injury concern or any niggle I am sure players can be pulled in from the squad into the World Cup. I don’t think anything is written in stone. At least for now these set of players won’t be available for the World Cup because both are clashing,” Anil Kumble stated on Jio Cinema.

“It will be great experience. Being part of the Asian Games, being part of the Games village.”

Team India (Senior Men) squad for nineteenth Asian Games: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rahul Tripathi, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Shivam Mavi, Shivam Dube, Prabhsimran Singh (wk).

Standby listing of gamers: Yash Thakur, Sai Kishore, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Sai Sudarsan

India ladies’s squad for nineteenth Asian Games: 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.

(With PTI inputs)