BCCI Announces Ruturaj Gaikwad As India’s Captain For Asian Games 2023, Rinku Singh Receives Maiden Call-Up

BCCI has officially announce the squad for for Asian Games 2023. Ruturaj Gaikwad will be the Indian captain for the tournament.

BCCI has ended the rumors about Shikhar Dhawan leading Team India in Asian Games 2023 as they officially announced Rituraj Gaikwad as the Indian captain for the upcoming tournament set to take place in Hangzhou.

Kolkata Knight Rider’s star finisher Rinku Singh and Punjab Kings’ wicket-keeper batter Prabhsimran Singh have received their maiden Team India call-ups for the quadrennial event which will take place from 28th September to 8th October in a T20 format.

BCCI made the announcement from their official Twitter handle

NEWS 🚨- Team India (Senior Men) squad for 19th 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…

— BCCI (@BCCI) July 14, 2023

The Men’s competition will be held at the Zhejiang University of Technology Pingfeng Cricket Field. The selection committee also announced the women’s squad which will be led by Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana will be the deputy in charge. Richa Ghosh will be returning to the side too.

India’s Squads For Asian Games 2023

India Men: 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 list of players: Yash Thakur, Sai Kishore, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Sai Sudarsan

India Women: 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

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