IN PHOTOS: Confirmed Indian squads for five sports at Asian Games 2023

Updated On: 31 July, 2023 09:32 PM IST | Raaina Jain

Indian sports players are all set to represent the country at Asian Games 2023 to be held in Hangzhou, China from September 23 to October 6. Several sports authorities have already announced participants for both individual and team events in the tournament. Here is a look at the confirmed Indian squads for five of these sports – cricket, badminton, tennis, table tennis and chess. (Pics: AFP)

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Cricket

Men’s cricket team: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Captain), Yashasvi 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)

Standby players: Yash Thakur, Sai Kishore, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Sai Sudarsan

Women`s cricket team: Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Amanjot Kaur, Devika Vaidya, Anjali Sarvani, Titas Sadhu, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Minnu Mani, Kanika Ahuja, Uma Chetry (wk), Anusha Bareddy

Standby players: Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque, Pooja Vastrakar

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Badminton

Men’s singles: HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth (individual/team), Lakshya Sen, Mithun Manjunath (team)

Men’s doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty, Dhruv Kapila/MR Arjun (individual/team)

Women’s singles: PV Sindhu, Ashmita Chaliha (individual/team), Anupama Upadhyaya, Malvika Bansod (team)

Women’s doubles: Gayatri Gopichand/Treesa Jolly, Ashwini Ponnappa/Tanisha Crasto (individual/team)

Mixed doubles: Rohan Kapoor/N Sikki Reddy, Sai Pratheek K/Tanisha Crasto

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Tennis

Men’s team: Rohan Bopanna, Sumit Nagal, Yuki Bhambri, Saketh Myneni, Mukund Sasikumar, Ramkumar Ramanathan; Captain: Rohit Rajpal

Women’s team: Rutuja Bhosle, Ankita Raina, Karman Kaur Thandi, Prarthana Thombare, Vaidehi Chaudhari, Sahaja Yamlapalli; Captain: Ankita Bhambri

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Table Tennis

Men’s singles: Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran

Women singles: Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula,

Men`s doubles: Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manav Thakkar/Manush Shah

Women`s doubles: Sutirtha Mukherjee/Ayhika Mukherjee, Sreeja Akula/Diya Chitale.

Mixed doubles: Manika Batra/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Sreeja Akula/Harmeet Desai

Men`s reserves: SFR Snehit, Sanil Shetty; Women`s reserves: Archana Kamath, Reeth Rishya

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Chess

Men: D Gukesh, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, P Harikrishna, R Praggnanandhaa

Women: Koneru Humpy, D. Harika, R Vaishali, Vantika Agrawal, Savitha Shri

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