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Hans India
2 days ago
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- Hans India
Radha Yadav to replace injured Shuchi in India's squad for England series
Mumbai: All-rounder Radha Yadav will replace injured Shuchi Upadhyay in India's squad for the upcoming white-ball tour of England, starting later this month. India will play five T20Is and three ODIs against England, who have a new captain and head coach in Nat Sciver-Brunt and Charlotte Edwards respectively. "The Women's Selection Committee has named Radha Yadav as a replacement for Shuchi Upadhyay in Team India's squads for the England tour," the BCCI said in a statement. "Shuchi was ruled out of the tour after sustaining a left shin injury, which was diagnosed during the pre-tour camp at the BCCI Centre of Excellence (COE) in Bengaluru," it added. Shuchi was among the three newcomers along with Sree Charani and Kranti Goud to be named in the T20I side. She made her ODI debut against South Africa in the Women's Tri-Series last month which remains her only match in India colours. India's squad announcement for the tour was headlined by Shafali Verma who made her comeback into India's T20I team. Though Shafali was only named for the T20I leg of the tour, pacer Sayali Satghare made it to both squads, adding some heft to India's fast bowling stocks, depleted due to Renuka Singh Thakur and Titas Sadhu's injuries. Shafali had been out of the national set-up after last year's T20 World Cup in the UAE, where India failed to enter the semi-finals. After strong showings in the domestic 20-over and 50-over matches, Shafali amassed 304 runs from nine innings with a strike rate of 152.76 for Delhi Capitals (DC) in WPL 2025 and finished in fourth place in the run-scorers charts. That strong showing in this year's WPL has propelled the Neetu David-led selection committee to bring back Shafali into the shortest format scheme of things. For the ODIs, barring Sayali's addition, the selectors retained the side which won the recent tri-series in Sri Lanka, which featured South Africa as the third team. The three ODIs against England provide ample chances for India to fine-tune their combinations ahead of this year's ODI World Cup, to be held on their home soil in September-October. India's five T20Is against England will be held at Trent Bridge, Bristol County Ground, The Oval, Old Trafford and Edgbaston from June 28 to July 12. The three ODIs between the two teams are slated to take place in Southampton, Lord's and Chester-le-Street from July 16-22. India's updated T20I squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (WK), Yastika Bhatia (WK), Harleen Deol, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Sree Charani, Amanjot Kaur, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Sayali Satghare, Radha Yadav. India's updated ODI squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (WK), Yastika Bhatia (WK), Tejal Hasabnis, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Sree Charani, Amanjot Kaur, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Sayali Satghare, Radha Yadav.
Hindustan Times
15-05-2025
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- Hindustan Times
Shafali returns to India squad for England tour
Chandigarh: Swashbuckling opening batter Shafali Verma returned to the national team on Thursday with selectors ending her seven-month exile for the upcoming T20I series in England. The five-match series will be followed by three ODIs with in-form Delhi batter Pratika Rawal keeping Shafali out in the 50-over format. India will take on England in five T20Is set to be played from June 28 to July 12. The three ODIs will be played on July 16, 19 and 22. The T20I series will begin in Nottingham and the tour ends on July 22 in Chester-le-Street. In Shafali's absence from the limited-over formats, Uma Chetry and Rawal opened alongside Smriti Mandhana in T20Is and ODIs respectively. While Rawal retained her spot, Chetry has been replaced by Shafali who not only had a successful run in domestic cricket but also excelled for Delhi Capitals in the third edition of Women's Premier League (WPL) where her tally of 304 runs at a strike rate of 152.76 helped DC reach the final. Shafali was dropped from the Indian team last November after a string of poor performances. Later, she slogged hard in the domestic circuit and emerged as the leading run-getter in the Senior Women's One Day Trophy (527 runs, 152.31 strike rate, 75.29 average) and the Senior Women's One Day Challenger Trophy (414 runs, 145.26 strike rate, 82.80 average) while captaining Haryana. Meanwhile, Rawal grabbed her chance in the ODIs and has since been a consistent performer. With the ODI World Cup due later this year, it looks like Rawal has been identified to open with Mandhana while Verma gets to play the T20 format. The 21-year-old has 1,203 runs from 15 innings across three different domestic competitions at a strike rate of over 150. India recently beat Sri Lanka in the final of the tri-nation series which also included South Africa. Veteran all-rounder Sneh Rana's Player of the Series performance in the tri-series has earned her a place in both the ODI and T20I squads. Rana makes it to the India T20 team for the first time since the 2023 Women's T20 World Cup. Fast-bowler Kashvee Gautam lost her place in the ODI team owing to an injury. Seam-bowling all-rounders Kranti Goud and Sayali Satghare and left-arm spinners N Shree Charani and Shuchi Upadhyay have received their maiden T20I call-ups. India women have not played T20Is since December when they hosted West Indies at home. India Women T20I squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Harleen Deol, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Sree Charani, Shuchi Upadhyay, Amanjot Kaur, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Sayali Satghare. India Women ODI squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Tejal Hasabnis, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Sree Charani, Shuchi Upadhyay, Amanjot Kaur, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Sayali Satghare.
Indian Express
15-05-2025
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- Indian Express
India's women's squads for England tour: Shafali Verma makes a comeback in T20Is, Sayali Satghare returns in both formats
With still more than a month left for the matches, India announced their white-ball squads on Thursday for the women's T20I and ODI series in England, starting at the end of June 2025. While the One Day International squad is largely similar to the one that won the Women's Tri-Nation Series recently in Sri Lanka, opener Shafali Verma makes a comeback to the T20 International scheme of things, after having been out of reckoning in the recent months. In the ODI squad – potentially a crucial indicator of the team's plans ahead of the home World Cup starting at the end of September – Mumbai's seam-bowling allrounder Sayali Satghare makes a return too. She replaces Kashvee Gautam, who made her debut in the Tri-Series but got injured midway and was replaced by Kranti Gaud. The latter, who also made her debut in Sri Lanka, retains her place in both squads. Harmanpreet Kaur's side were clinical in the series against South Africa and Sri Lanka, suffering a solitary surprise defeat against Sri Lanka in the round-robin phase but otherwise dominant on their way to lifting the trophy. During the series, India handed out as many as four caps—to pacers Kashvee and Kranti, and left-arm spinners Sree Charani and Shuchi Upadhyay. Along with Kranti, the two spinners have retained their ODI spots too and earned their T20I call-ups as well. In the T20Is canvas, Shafali's return is the headliner. The swashbuckling opener was dropped last November after an inconsistent run in India colours, but has since been in stellar form in domestic cricket and had another solid season with the Delhi Capitals in the Women's Premier League. 'It's not easy to get over (being overlooked for selection). I didn't want to reveal because my father had a heart attack about two days before I got dropped from the team. I hid the news from him till he got better. He was in the hospital. I told him a week later,' Shafali had told The Indian Express in an interview. While India's batting largely worked well as a unit in Sri Lanka, there was a school of thought that someone with Shafali's intent could shake things up in an otherwise homogenous top order. But it seems her return to the ODI scheme of things will have to wait. The bigger question however, is the status of injured players before the World Cup. In the press release for the Tri-Series it was mentioned that Renuka Singh Thakur and Titas Sadhu were injured and were not considered for the selection. Renuka, especially, has been India's strike bowler in recent times and has a good record in England. Then there are the curious cases of Shreyanka Patil and Asha Sobhana, both ruled out before RCB's WPL season, but still not back in the reckoning for India. Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (WK), Yastika Bhatia (WK), Harleen Deol, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Sree Charani, Shuchi Upadhyay, Amanjot Kaur, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Sayali Satghare India's ODI Squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (WK), Yastika Bhatia (WK), Tejal Hasabnis, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Sree Charani, Shuchi Upadhyay, Amanjot Kaur, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Sayali Satghare
