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Players like Bumrah and Iyer will not be able to play in the ODI series.Image Credit source: PTI

The schedule of the Indian cricket team is gradually becoming busier. After completing the tour of Ireland and England, the T20 series is currently being played in Zimbabwe. After this there will be a tour of Sri Lanka and from there again matches will be played continuously in different formats and countries. But during this time, a series is also going to happen in which Team India will have to play without some of its big players. Many big players including Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan may sit out of the India-West Indies ODI series as all of them have been selected in the Asian Games 2026 team.

Asian Games 2026 is to be organized at the end of September, which will be held in Japan. This time also a cricket event has been organized in these games, in which the Indian team is also participating. In the last games, India had won the gold medal. Although, then India had sent a very young team, but this time BCCI has selected a very strong team under the leadership of new captain Shreyas Iyer, which also includes stars like Jasprit Bumrah.

The teams for these games had already been announced but the schedule of the matches was announced on Friday 24th July. Cricket matches in the Asian Games will run from 24 September to 1 October, in which India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have got direct place in the quarter finals. In such a situation, the Indian team will present its claim to win the gold medal in this Asian Games.

But this will affect the ODI series between India and West Indies, which will be played during this period. A series of 3 ODI matches is to be played between the two countries, which will start from 27th September and will continue till 3rd October. That means there is a direct conflict between the schedules of the Asian Games and the ODI series, due to which Team India will have to enter the ODI series without big players.

If we talk about those players who can stay away from this ODI series, then it includes some very important names, who have been part of the ODI format team in recent times. Apart from vice-captain Shreyas Iyer and star pacer Bumrah, prominent names like wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan, Akshar Patel, Washington Sundar, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh are included in this. All these players are part of the T20 squad. Now all eyes are on whether BCCI makes any changes in the squad regarding this or gives priority to Asian Games.

Sumit Sundriyal

Presently I am working as Assistant News Editor (Sports) in TV9 Hindi (Sports 9). Reaching here started from 2009, when I took admission in Mass Media Honors Course (2009-12) at Jamia Millia Islamia. Then in 2013, he completed Post-Graduation Diploma in Hindi Journalism from Indian Institute of Mass Communication. It was from here in 2013 that he entered professional journalism for the first time and first made a place in News 18 India TV channel. Before taking entry in digital journalism, he spent about 6 years in the TV industry, where he worked on the assignment desk. While at the assignment desk, gathering information is the most important task and it is the responsibility to check every aspect of that news and take it forward. Did the same thing while working at News 18 India. After this, the fascination with sports and sports news turned towards digital journalism and a new journey began. It started during IPL 2019, when Quint joined Hindi. After writing sports news with Quint for a year, he established a relationship with TV9 Hindi to achieve a new position in this work. For the last 3 years, I have been bringing every small, big, serious and funny sports news to you here and am constantly trying to present it in a better way.

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