Asian Games: Bumrah, Sooryavanshi in; Iyer captain of India men’s squad

Bumrah has been rested for the T20Is to be played in Ireland and England. He takes the place of Mohammed Siraj, who is the squad for the tours but not for the Asian Games. Tilak Varma will be vice-captain of the team. Sooryavanshi will be competing for a top-order spot in a squad that includes Sanju Samson, Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan.

This will be the fourth instance of cricket being played at the Asian Games. The 10 teams that will compete apart from India are Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Japan, Nepal, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Oman. It will be a T20I tournament, with India going into it as defending champions in both the men’s and women’s events.

The tournament begins with preliminary qualifiers from September 24 to 26. This will be followed by the quarterfinals on September 28 and 29, the semifinals on October 1 and the matches for the bronze and gold medals on October 3. The Games will hence clash with India’s men’s ODI series against the West Indies, which is to be played from September 27 and October 3, followed by five T20Is from October 6.

India squad for Asian Games: Shreyas Iyer (C), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma (vc), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Jasprit Bumrah.