India introduced the squads for the Asian Games 2023 on Friday and stunned everybody by naming Ruturaj Gaikwad as the brand new T20I captain. Very few had predicted this as Shikhar Dhawan was tipped to return to the nationwide workforce setup to guide the Indian workforce within the multi-sport occasion in China’s Hangzhou beginning on September 2023.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is sending squads to Asian Games occasions for the primary time. But the event’s schedule collides with the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 in India which is able to kick off from October 5. So, the BCCI is sending males’s second-string aspect and girls’s senior workforce to Hangzhou.
Gaikwad has already featured for India in each white-ball codecs and is presently half of the continued Test collection in opposition to West Indies. He made his worldwide debut through the T20I collection in opposition to Sri Lanka in July 2021 however as a result of intense battle for high-order locations, he has been restricted to solely 9 T20Is and one ODI recreation to date.
The 26-12 months-previous batter from Maharashtra first grabbed the eye when he bagged the Orange Cap award in Indian Premier League 2021 with Chennai Super Kings. He was the main run-scorer for his workforce within the 2022 version after which once more dominated the event by scoring 590 runs within the not too long ago concluded season.
Gaikwad’s promotion to captain Indian workforce flooded Twitter with followers’ reactions. Many are predicting future captaincy for CSK star and MS Dhoni‘s potential successor on the most profitable IPL workforce.Â
India’s 15-member squad additionally options Rinku Singh and Prabhsimran Singh for the primary time. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Tilak Varma, who’re half of India’s T20I squad for the upcoming collection in opposition to West Indies, are additionally included in a star-studded workforce.
Team India squad for Asian Games: 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)
Standby record of gamers: Yash Thakur, Sai Kishore, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Sai Sudarsan
