Asia Cup Indian Women Cricket Team, Indian Women Cricket Team: Sudden announcement of Indian team for Asia Cup, this player gets the command – women asia cup 2024: India announces 15-member squad, harmanpreet kaur to lead – 2024-07-07 12:22:11

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2024-07-07 12:22:11
Mumbai: Harmanpreet Kaur will lead the 15-member Indian team for the Women’s T20 Asia Cup to be held in Sri Lanka from July 19. Harmanpreet is currently playing in the ongoing T20 series against South Africa in Chennai. Opener Smriti Mandhana, who is in great form in the series against South Africa, has been made the vice-captain. Apart from the 15 players of the main team, Shweta Sehrawat, Saiqa Ishak, Tanuja Kanwar and Meghna Singh have been included as reserve players. The top two teams from each group will advance to the semi-finals, the final will be played on July 28. India has been placed in Group A of the tournament, which includes arch-rivals Pakistan (July 19), United Arab Emirates (July 21) and Nepal (July 23). All matches will be played at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium.

Asia Cup Indian women’s team schedule

datevsPlace19 JulyPakistanDambulla21 JulyUAEDambulla23 JulyNepalDambullaIndian team is the defending champion
India are the defending champions and have won the competition a record seven times. The tournament will serve as a full dress rehearsal for the Women’s T20 World Cup to be held in Bangladesh from October 3 later this year. The Indian women won the trophy in the last edition in 2022. India are also the most dominant team in the tournament, with Bangladesh being the only other winner in 2018.

Indian Women’s Team Squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shefali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Uma Chhetri (wicketkeeper), Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Shobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil and Sajna Sajeevan.

reserve:
Shweta Sahrawat, Saiqa Ishaque, Tanuja Kanwar and Meghna Singh.

(With inputs from agency)

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