BCCI announces Indian squad for Women's T20 World Cup: Two Malayali players included

MUMBAI: BCCI has announced the Indian squad for the Women's Twenty20 World Cup. It is very remarkable that there are two Malayalee players in the team. Asha Shobhana and Sajana Sajeev are the Malayalis in the 15 squad. This is the first time that two Malayali players are included in the Indian cricket team for the World Cup at the same time. Harmanpreet Kaur is the captain. Smriti Mandana will also be the captain of the team. The tournament runs from October 3rd to 20th. The matches will be held in Dubai and Sharjah.

Team members

Led by senior player Harmanpreet Kaur, the team includes Smriti Mandana, Shefali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemima Rodriguez, Richa Ghosh, Yastika Bhatia, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Shodhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil and Sajana Sajevan.

There will be a total of 23 matches in the tournament. The groups are as defined earlier. Apart from defending champions Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are in Group A. South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh and Scotland are in Group B. Each team in the group will compete against each other.