Down with ankle injury, Anwar Ali misses cut in Asian Cup probables

India will be missing its key central defender Anwar Ali because of his ankle injury in the upcoming AFC Asian Cup in Qatar starting from January 12Down with a fractured right ankle the 23yearold leftfooted central defender has been excluded from the 50member India probables named on ThursdayA key member of head coach Igor Stimacs defence Anwars injury will upset the Croats plans as he has taken a gamble to include midfielder Jeakson Singh in the probableAlso ReadWomens World Test Championship Smriti Mandhana backs Womens WTC but Englands Tammy Beaumont feels long way to goThe Kerala Blasters footballer too is down with an injury shoulder as it remains to be seen if he makes the final cut of 23 ahead of their Asian Cup opener against Australia on January 13Also ReadIrfan Pathans take on Rohit Sharma ahead of South Africas Test seriesIn the absence of Anwar the defence is expected to be helmed by Sandesh Jhingan Pritam Kotal and Subhasish Bose Anwars Mohun Bagan teammate Ashique Kuruniyan who is down with an ACL injury has not been named in the probables on expected linesIndia 102 in the FIFA rankings is the lowest rung side in its Group B as Stimacs task is cut out to make the Round of 16After taking the world No 25 the Stimaccoached Blue Tigers will face Uzbekistan January 18 and Syria January 23 The side will be pruned to 25 members before they head to Doha for the national camp beginning on December 30India ProbablesGoalkeepers Gurpreet Singh Sandhu Amrinder Singh Vishal Kaith Dheeraj Singh Moirangthem and Gurmeet Singh ChahalDefenders Naorem Roshan Singh Bikash Yumnam Lalchungnunga Sandesh Jhingan Nikhil Poojary Chinglensana Singh Pritam Kotal Hormipam Ruivah Subhasish Bose Asish Rai Akash Mishra Mehtab Singh Rahul Bheke Narender Gahlot and Amey RanawadeMidfielders Suresh Singh Wangjam Rohit Kumar Brandon Fernandes Udanta Singh Kumam Yasir Mohammad Jeakson Singh Thounaojam Anirudh Thapa Sahal Abdul Samad Glan Martins Liston Colaco Deepak Tangri Lalengmawia Ralte Vinit Rai Ninthoinganba Meetei and Naorem Mahesh SinghForwards Sunil Chhetri Rahim Ali Farukh Choudhary Nandhakumar Sekar Siva Sakthi Narayanan Rahul KP Ishan Pandita Manvir Singh Kiyan Nassiri Lallianzuala Chhangte Gurkirat Singh Vikram Partap Singh Bipin Singh Thounaojam Parthib Gogoi and Jerry MawihmingthangaThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever