Nisshin (Japan): India won the toss and elected to bowl against Japan in the women’s cricket quarterfinal of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games here on Friday.
Cricket is being played in the T20 format in the Asian Games and India are the defending champions.
The match is also India’s first-ever contest against Japan in women’s cricket.
Teams:
India Women: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Gunalan Kamalini, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Bharti Fulmali, Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Shree Charani, Shreyanka Patil, Kranti Gaud, Nandani Sharma.
Japan Women: Haruna Iwasaki, Akari Nishimura Kano (wk), Mai Yanagida (c), Erika Oda, Ahilya Chandel, Shimako Kato, Ayaka Kato-Stafford, Ayumi Fujikawa, Hinase Goto, Erika Toguchi Quinn, Nonoha Yasumoto.
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