On Thursday, October 17, the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) introduced the sturdy 16-member squad of the India Girls’s Nationwide Cricket Workforce for the upcoming One Day Worldwide (ODI) sequence in opposition to the New Zealand Girls’s Nationwide Cricket Workforce.
The squad introduced by the BCCI for the matches in opposition to the White Ferns is alongside the anticipated strains. Nonetheless, there have been three main adjustments to the India Girls’s Nationwide Cricket Workforce.
Richa Ghosh Out Of New Zealand ODIs Due To twelfth Board Exams
Harmanpreet Kaur, whose captaincy has come underneath hearth in current occasions, will proceed to steer the aspect within the matches in opposition to New Zealand with the star batter Smriti Mandhana serving as her deputy.
The star gamers Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, and Shreyanka Patil are current within the squad whereas Yastika Bhatia and Uma Chetry are two wicket-keeping choices.
India’s star wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh has not been included within the ODI squad as a result of she made herself unavailable for choice. The 21-year-old is unavailable for nationwide responsibility as a result of she is specializing in her research and can seem for her twelfth commonplace board exams when India Girls’s tackle New Zealand Girls’s.
Asha Sobhana and Pooja Vastrakar may even miss the sequence in opposition to the White Ferns. Pooja has been given a much-needed relaxation, whereas Sobhana has been dominated out of the sequence with an harm.
Asha Sobhana had acquired injured forward of the essential match of the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup 2024 in opposition to Australia Girls’s Nationwide Cricket Workforce on the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Sunday, October 13. She was initially picked within the India XI however she suffered a knee harm on the sidelines of the toss and acquired dominated out of the match.
“Ms. Richa Ghosh was unavailable for choice attributable to her twelfth commonplace board exams. Ms. Asha Sobhana is at present nursing an harm and was unavailable for choice. Ms. Pooja Vastrakar has been rested for the sequence,” the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) said.
India Girls’s squad for 3 ODIs in opposition to New Zealand:
Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, D Hemalatha, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Yastika Bhatia (wk), Uma Chetry (wk), Sayali Satgare, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Tejal Hasabnis, Saima Thakor, Priya Mishra, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil.
India Girls’s Had been Extraordinarily Poor In T20 World Cup 2024
The Harmanpreet Kaur-led India Girls’s Nationwide Cricket Workforce delivered a poor efficiency within the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup 2024 and crashed out of the group stage itself.
Heading into the competitors, India Girls’s had momentum on their aspect as they beat West Indies and South Africa fairly comfortably within the warm-up matches. Nonetheless, they weren’t in a position to replicate that efficiency in the primary event.
India opened their marketing campaign with a 58-run loss to New Zealand Girls’s, earlier than profitable by 6 wickets and 82 runs in opposition to Pakistan Girls’s and Sri Lanka Girls’s. The Girls In Blue then misplaced to Australia Girls’s by 9 runs and finally acquired eradicated from the event.
Coming again to the New Zealand Girls’s tour of India 2024, the matches are set to be held on October 24, 27, and 29 on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
