Asian Games: VVS Laxman and Hrishikesh Kanitkar to be coaches for Team India

Former legendry batsman VVS Laxman and all-rounder Hrishikesh Kanitkar will join the Indian team as coaches for the upcoming 19th Asian Games to be held at Hangzhou in China.

As head coach Rahul Dravid will be busy with the World Cup team, the onus will be on Laxman and Kanitkar to guide the team.

As per reports, apart from Laxman, the support staff of the Indian men’s team for Asiad will include former India leg-spinner Sairaj Bahutule as the bowling coach and Munish Bali as the fielding coach.

Promising batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad will be leading the team in the competition.

As the schedule of the competition is clashing with the ODI World Cup, team India is sending their B cricket team. BCCI has already announced the team for the competition. The competition was scheduled to be played in 2022. However, it was postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

The squad: 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).