The 2024 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup is knocking on the doors! The different countries have finally started to announce their squads. Therefore the BCCI has also disclosed the names of the players who are going to head towards Dubai for the grand tournament.
The squad looks quite similar to the squad of women’s T20 Asia Cup which was held in July this year. However, only Uma Chetry seems to miss as the wicketkeeper-batter gets replaced with Yastika Bhatia. Soon after the squad was announced the fans started questioning her inclusions amid her fitness issue as well as Shreyanka Patil’s comeback is also looking inappropriate since she’d suffered a fractur in her left hand’s finger in during an Asia Cup game against Pakistan.
Let’s delve into the complete details of this story.
Yastika Bhatia’s entry is subjected to fitness
Bhatia was Mumbai Indians’ third-highest run-scorer in WPL 2024 with 204 runs in eight outings. Since playing her the first T20I against Bangladesh in Sylhet in April the player has been out of the scene. For now, she’s recovering from a knee injury at BCCI’s National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. Therefore, her entry sparks immense controversies among cricket lovers.
Meanwhile, other wicketkeeper batters Uma Chetry, Tanuja Kanwar, who replaced Patil in the India squad for the Asia Cup, and fast bowler Saima Thakor are named non-traveling reserves.
India squad for Women’s T20 World Cup
Harmanpreet Kaur taking on the captain’s role with vice-captain Smriti Mandhana by her side. Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, and Deepti Sharma have also come back as the batting power, while Renuka Singh will continue to lead the fast-bowling unit. Here is the full list of the women’s squad:
Harmanpreet Kaur (capt)
Smriti Mandhana (vice-capt)
Yastika Bhatia* (wk) (Subject to fitness)
Shafali Verma
Deepti Sharma
Jemimah Rodrigues
Richa Ghosh (wk)
Pooja Vastrakar
Arundhati Reddy
Renuka Singh
D Hemalatha
Asha Sobhana
Radha Yadav
Shreyanka Patil* (Subject to fitness)
Sajeevan Sajana
Traveling reserves: Tanuja Kanwar, Uma Chetry, Saima Thakor.
Non-travelling reserves: Raghvi Bist, Priya Mishra
Indian women in the 2024 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup
Looking at the charts, the women in blue are placed in Group A at the World Cup along with Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
Indian women haven’t won any women’s T20 World Cup titles yet. Setting in Bangladesh originally the venue was later shifted to UAE last week in the aftermath of the countrywide anti-government riot.
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