Mumbai, Nov 14 (PTI) The Indian Men's Rugby XVs teamis set to compete at the Asia Rugby Championship – Divison 2Rugby XVs - to be held in Taiwan from November 15 to 18.
The team, supported by Societe Generale, isparticipating under the aegis of the Indian Rugby FootballUnion (IRFU).
A total of four countries from across Asia, includingSingapore, Thailand, India and host Chinese Taipei, will viefor top honours, a media release issued here said.
The players, shortlisted to join the Indian nationaltraining camp, were selected during The Senior National RugbySevens Championships (men and women) held in Patna and the84th All India & South Asia Rugby XVs Championship which washeld at the Calcutta Cricket & Football Club in October.
The 25 players selected to represent India are - MohitKhatri, Prince Khatri Neeraj Khatri, Vikas Khatri, SourabhDubal, Deepak Punia, Bhupendra Bokan (all from Haryana),Hitesh Dagar, Bharat Dagar, Mukesh Mankotia, Nitin Dagar,Gautam Dagar, Monu Yadav (all from Delhi), Anand Godiwala,Pappu Todkar (all from Maharashtra) Parvender Singh,Shokendar, Surinder Singh, Sujai Lama Suresh Sajwan, SamserSingh (all services –SSCB), Muna Murmu (Odisha)Suraj Prasad, Suraj Veer Sharma (all from West Bengal) andRoshan Lobo (Karnataka).
Coach Henry Paul is former England Rugby Union player.
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