Ruturaj to lead India in Asian games

Ruturaj Gaikwad will lead a youthful India men's crew at the Asian Games, to be held in Hangzhou, the BCCI reported. With the games to be played in the briefest configuration, BCCI has picked to send a crew brimming with young people and players who dazzled at the current year's IPL. Any semblance of Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma and Shivam Dube took care of business alongside the Yashasvi Jaiswal who stowed the most significant player grant at the competition. The ladies' crew in the interim, will be an original capacity one, with Harmanpreet Kaur driving it and Smiti Mandhana named as her delegate. The ladies' group will play their games in a 10-day window between September 19 to 28 while the men's installations will trail behind from September 28 to October 8. All apparatuses will occur in the Zhejiang College of Innovation Pingfeng Cricket Field. The Asian Games, which was at first expected to occur in 2022 yet was deferred because of the Coronavirus pandemic, will start on September 19 and end on October 8, 2023. India Men squad: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), 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) Stand by players: Yash Thakur, Sai Kishore, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Sai Sudarsan.