The Asian Games 2022 will be hosted in Hangzhou China, from 23 September to 8th October 2023. The quadrennial event was supposed to take place in 2022, but has now been rescheduled to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Asian Games features cricket this time around and India will be participating in the same. The BCCI has announced the squad that would compete at the Asian Games. The squad features young and second-string players, as BCCI has decided to use the event for player development.
Senior players like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma etc., won't be part of the set-up as they will be busy with the 2023 Cricket World Cup preparations.
In this article, we give you the latest update on the squad release for the 2022 Asian Games.
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India's Cricket Squad for the 2022 Asian Games
Maharashtra-born Ruturaj Gaikwad will lead the young group of players at the 2022 Asian Games. The BCCI has announced a second-string 15-man squad along with five stand-by players to play at the Hangzhou Games.
Team India: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rahul Tripathi, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wicket-keeper), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Shivam Mavi, Shivam Dube, Prabhsimran Singh (wicket-keeper)
Standby players: Yash Thakur, Sai Kishore, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Sai Sudarsan
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What is the India's schedule at the 2022 Asian Games?
India will directly feature in the Quarter Final stage of the competition. They will play their first game of the tournament on October 5. The fixtures have not been officially announced yet, and we will update the information in due course.
Where will the cricket matches be played at the 2022 Asian Games?
The cricket matches at the 2022 Asian Games will be played at the Zhejiang University of Technology Cricket Field, Hangzhou.
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