On Friday, the BCCI announced that Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur will be leading India women’s ODI and T20I teams respectively during team’s tour of the West Indies in November. Team India is scheduled to play three ODIs in Antigua and five T20Is in St Lucia and Guyana against the Caribbean team.
Shafali Varma, who recently became India’s youngest T20I debutant, has been included in the T20I squad. The squad was announced after the All-India Women’s Selection Committee met on Friday in Surat to finalized the squad for the tour. The India women’s team is currently playing a five-match T20I series against South Africa, following which they will play a three-match ODI series against the Proteas.
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Announcing the squad, BCCI in its press release said, “The All-India Women’s Selection Committee met on Friday in Surat to pick the Indian Women’s Cricket Team for their upcoming tour of West Indies. India will play three ODIs in Antigua and five T20Is in St Lucia and Guyana,” the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a press release.”
India won the first of the T20I match by 11 runs, with Deepti Sharma bowling an incredible spell of four over which included three maiden overs. She finished the matches with figures of 3/8. Harmanpreet Kaur top-scored for India with a 34-ball 43.
The second match, which was to be played in Surat, was washed out without a single delivery bowled and now the third T20I will also be played at the same venue.
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Indian Women’s ODI squad: Mithali Raj (capt), Harmanpreet Kaur (vice capt), Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Punam Raut, D. Hemalatha, Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey, Mansi Joshi, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Priya Punia, Sushma Verma
Indian Women’s ODI squad: Mithali Raj (Capt), Harmanpreet Kaur (vc), Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Punam Raut, D Hemalatha, Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey, Mansi Joshi, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Taniya Bhatia (wk),Priya Punia, Sushma Verma
— BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) September 27, 2019
Indian Women’s T20I squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Smriti Mandhana (vice capt), Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Harleen Deol, Deepti Sharma, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Poonam Yadav, Radha Yadav, Veda Krishnamurthy, Anuja Patil, Shikha Pandey, Pooja Vastrakar, Mansi Joshi, Arundhati Reddy
Indian Women’s T20I squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (Capt), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Harleen Deol, Deepti Sharma, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Poonam Yadav, Radha Yadav, Veda Krishnamurthy, Anuja Patil, Shikha Pandey, Pooja Vastrakar, Mansi Joshi, Arundhati Reddy
— BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) September 27, 2019
