Bengal seamer Akash Deep was on Saturday named as a replacement for the injured speedster Shivam Mavi in the Indian men's squad for the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou starting on September 23. (More Cricket News)
The Indian cricket ▨board (BCCI)ꦐ on Saturday announced Akash’s inclusion at the expense of Shivam Mavi, who has been ruled out of the tournament.
“Mavi is suffering from a back injury and is ruled out of the tournament. The men’s cricket competition will take place from 28th Septemb♔er to 8th October in a T20 format,♔” the BCCI said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the women's 💯selection committee named Pooja Vastrakar as a rꦕeplacement for Anjali Sarvani.
Vastrak🎉ar was a part of the standby list of players.
Left-arm pacer Sarvani has been rul𒈔ed out with 🌠a knee injury.
The women's cricket competition will take pla🌞ce from September 19-28 in the T20 format at Zhejiang University of Technology Pingfeng Cric🏅ket Field.
Indian men's squad
Ruturaj Gaikwad (🦩c), Ya♛shasvi 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), Akash Deep.
List of standby players: Yash Thak💝ur, Sai Kishore, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda and Sai Sudarsan.
Indian women's squad
Harmanpreet K𒀰aur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc),ꦆ Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Amanjot Kaur, Devika Vaidya, Titas Sadhu, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Minnu Mani, Kanika Ahuja, Uma Chetry (wk), Anusha Bareddy, Pooja Vastrakar.
List of standby players: Harleen Deol, Kashvee♌ Gautam, Sneh Rana,ꦿ Saika Ishaque.
