No Indian cricket team at Asian games 2023.

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BCCI has cited prior commitments for not sending either men's or women's cricket teams to the mega event.

India will not be sending indian men’s and women’s cricket team to the asian games in Hangzhou, China later this year.
Cricket will be the only sport not be represented in the continental event scheduled to take place between 23 september and 8 october.

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the governing body for cricket in India, has cited prior commitments for not sending either men’s or women’s teams to the mega event.

An anonymous BCCI official on its part said the board only received the email from India Olympic Association (IOA) just “one day before the deadline.”

Cricket has been included in two Asian Games in the past – 2010 and 2014 – and India skipped both. After being left out of Jakarta Games in 2018, the sport returns to the programme in Hangzhou.

The decision is been taken because indian women’s are scheduled to play new zealand and south africa in that window. The men’s team,however, wil be in action at the ODI World cup at their home soil.

vishnu

Atleast women's team should play asian games.
men's team have a world cup year so there is no chnace for them.

shubham

This tournament is a great way to encourage and promote cricket in other Asian nations as well.
India's participation should have benefited.

raman

India is participating in all the other games in asian games except cricket so it is ok.
every sport has value, not participating in one sport due to tight schedule doesn't bother me.

harsh

India never participated in asian games (cricket). they should have participate, it is better than playing srilanka, bangladesh,
zimbave in a bilateral series.