Punjab, Sept. 15 -- India's women's cricket team opens its Asian Games campaign against hosts Japan in a quarter-final on Friday, 18 September, at 10:30 AM IST - 2 PM local time. Harmanpreet Kaur captains for a second successive Games, with Smriti Mandhana as deputy.
The squad
Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shafali Verma, Pratika Rawal, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Gunalan Kamalini (wk), Bharti Fulmali, Sree Charani, Renuka Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil (subject to fitness), Radha Yadav and Nandni Sharma.
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