2 min readUpdated: Jun 6, 2026 02:45 PM IST
Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah will be part of the Indian squad for the 2026 Asian Games that will be held in Aichi-Nagoya from September 19 to October 4 later this year, BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia and chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar announced on Saturday. The pair had also announced Shreyas Iyer as the new captain of the Indian T20I team and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s selection for their upcoming tours of Ireland and England. Both players are in the squad for the Asian Games as well, with Iyer leading the side.
The women’s teams for the cricket event is yet to be announced.
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.
