BCCI approves India’s participation in Asian Games

India’s males’s and girls’s cricket groups are set to compete within the Asian Video games for the primary time, with the BCCI’s apex council approving their participation within the upcoming Video games in Hangzhou in September-October. Cricket has featured twice within the Asian Video games earlier than – in 2010 and 2014 – however India did not participate both time.

As within the 2010 and 2014 editions, T20 would be the format of the cricket occasion in Hangzhou.

“We’re going to take part within the Asian Video games,” BCCI secretary Jay Shah confirmed on Friday. “The Apex Council has accredited the participation of our males’s and girls’s groups.”

With the Males’s ODI World Cup, which is scheduled to start on October 5, two days earlier than the tip of the Asian Video games cricket competitors, the BCCI is predicted to ship a second-string males’s staff to the Video games, and a full-strength ladies’s staff.

Bangladesh (2010) and Sri Lanka (2014) received the lads’s gold medals within the earlier editions of the Video games, whereas Pakistan received the ladies’s gold each instances.

As issues stand, Indian cricketers can solely function in abroad leagues if they’re not concerned in worldwide cricket or in BCCI-run tournaments together with the IPL. Whereas solely a handful of Indian gamers have to this point gone on to play in abroad leagues after their retirements, the mushrooming of leagues all over the world has raised the priority that gamers might retire early to play in these new tournaments.

“We’ll come out with a coverage to stop the development of pre-determined retirement,” Shah mentioned. “The office-bearers will make a coverage and ship it again for approval.”