Laxman, Kanitkar to coach India's men's and women's teams at Asian Games

VVS Laxman and Hrishikesh Kanitkar will travel as the head coaches for India's men's and women's teams respectively to the 2023 Asian Games, which will be played in Hangzhou in China. Sairaj Bahutule will be the bowling coach for the men, while Munish Bali will be their fielding coach. For the women's team, Rajib Dutta will be the bowling coach and Subhadeep Ghosh the fielding coach.

The two groups will enter the opposition at the quarter-last stage. According to the most recent timetable, the India men's quarter-last coordinate is on October 3 with the semis likely on October 5, assuming that they qualify. The last is booked for October 7. The India ladies' group's quarter-last is booked for September 21, with their potential semi-last on September 23 and last on September 25. The games will be played at the Zhejiang College of Innovation's (ZJUT) Pingfeng grounds cricket ground.

Laxman, who is the top of the Public Cricket Foundation (NCA) in Bengaluru, has already excessively stepped in as lead trainer on men's visits when Rahul Dravid has been refreshed - just like the case as of late for the T20I series in Ireland. The India men's unit at the Asian Games will be a second-string crew, drove by Ruturaj Gaikwad, with the primary crew planning to play the World Cup that starts on October 5.

Kanitkar managed the ladies' group for the home T20I series against Australia in December last year and afterward the tri-series in South Africa followed by the T20 World Cup recently. The ladies' group has been without an extremely durable lead trainer since December last year, when Romesh Powar was moved to the NCA. Previous India bowler Nooshin Al Khadeer was selected in-between time lead trainer for the ladies' group's last task - a white-ball visit through Bangladesh. The BCCI's cricket warning advisory group had led interviews for the ladies' lead trainer position with three shortlisted names, yet there has been no report on any arrangement.

In the men's crew, there are questions about Tilak Varma's accessibility, as he could be approached to remain on in India on reserve for the World Cup, given Shreyas Iyer had experienced back fits not long before the Very Four conflict against Pakistan in the Asia Cup on Sunday.

The ladies' group will be driven by Smriti Mandhana to begin with. On the off chance that India really do come to the semi-finals, Harmanpreet Kaur, who had been given a two-match global boycott for disciplinary issues, will get back to lead in the last or the third-place season finisher.