No Indian cricket team at 2023 Asian Games: Report
FirstpostNew Delhi: India will not be sending its cricket team to the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China later this year. “We have entries in all sports except one – cricket isn’t going,” India’s chef de mission for the Asian Games, Bhupender Bajwa, told news outlet The Indian Express. We sent 3-4 emails to them but when we had to send entries to the organisers, they said they won’t go.” An anonymous BCCI official on its part said the board only received the email from India Olympic Association just “one day before the deadline.” According to the Future Tours Programme, India women are scheduled to play South Africa and New Zealand during that window. India had the possibility of fielding two national teams - an option that was used in 1998 when one team competed in the Sahara Cup and another travelled for the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.