VVS Laxman, Hrishikesh Kanitkar appointed as Head Coach for Men’s and women’s team

Indian men’s and women’s cricket teams are participating in the Asian Games 2023 to be held in Hangzhou, China from September 3 to October 8. This is the first time that the Indian Cricket Team is participating in this sports event and two teams have already been announced for this sports event. VVS Laxman, Hrishikesh Kanitkar appointed as Head Coach for Mens’s and women’s team.

National Cricket Academy (NCA) chief VVS Laxman will travel to Hangzhou with the Ruturaj Gaikwad-led Team India as the head coach for the forthcoming Asian Games 2023, starting September 28. At the same time, former Indian all-rounder Hrishikesh Kanitkar will be the interim head coach of the Indian women’s team at the Asian Games 2023.

According to Time of India, Laxman will be accompanied by Sairaj Bahutule as the bowling coach and Munish Bali as the fielding coach. The NCA chief is currently overseeing a high-performance conditioning camp of India’s emerging layers at Alur, Bengaluru. Laxman is currently overseeing a high-performance camp of India’s emerging players at Alur near Bangalore.

Along with Laxman, the support staff of the Indian men’s team for the Asian Games will include ex-India leg-spinner Sairaj Bahutule as the bowling coach, and Munish Bali as the fielding coach. In the case of the Indian women’s team, the appointment of the new head coach and the support staff seems to have been deferred till the start of the new international home season in December.

For the women’s team, Rajib Dutta (bowling coach) and Subhadeep Ghosh (fielding coach) will be the other members of the support staff who will travel to China alongside Kanitakar. The former all-rounder was in charge of the Harmanpreet Kaur-led side in the Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa earlier this year.

India squads for Asia games 2023:

Men’s Team: 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).

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Standby list of players: Yash Thakur, Sai Kishore, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Sai Sudarsan.

Women’s 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 list of players: Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque, Pooja Vastrakar.