Lack of depth? Here are 60 Players that can make it to Women’s T20 Challenge 2021

Last year, the Women’s T20 Challenge was played among three teams over six days at Sharjah. With Jio coming on board as title sponsor and Dream 11, Tata Altroz, Paytm, and CEAT extending their support, the tournament garnered popularity and viewership.

 

 

This year the Women’s T20 Challenge will be underway within a couple of weeks or so and will be played alongside the IPL. Talks and discussions about whether to have one more team in the tournament have taken the internet by storm as the fans and cricket pundits are voicing their opinions on social media.

There are mixed thoughts as one set of people do not feel the need to add another team citing a lack of quality players, while the other set is craving to have one additional team in the mix.

In this article, we will look to address the issue of the availability of quality players. But before that here is a quick look at the Indian players that featured in last year’s Women’s T20 Challenge:

1. Harmanpreet Kaur
2. Jemimah Rodrigues
3. Priya Punia
4. Anuja Patil
5. Radha Yadav
6. Taniya Bhatia
7. Poonam Yadav
8. Arundhati Reddy
9. Pooja Vastrakar
10. Ayushi Soni
11. Muskan Malik
12. Smriti Mandhana
13. Deepti Sharma
14. Punam Raut
15. Richa Ghosh
16. Dayalan Hemalatha
17. Nuzhat Parween
18. Rajeshwari Gayakwad
19. Harleen Deol
20. Jhulan Goswami
21. Simra Bahadur
22. Kashvee Gautam
23. Mithali Raj
24. Veda Krishnamurthy
25. Shafali Verma
26. Sushma Verma
27. Ekta Bisht
28. Shikha Pandey
29. Devika Vaidya
30. Sushree Dibyadarshini
31. Manali Dakshini
32. Murali Anagha
33. Meghna Singh

11 out of 15 players from each team were Indian while the remaining four were foreign. On conservative grounds and owing to the pandemic-like situation, if we assume that the Women’s T20 Challenge will be played only by the Indian players this year, then we would require a pool of 60 players if we want to have four teams.

Also Read: Why is it the right time to have 4 Team Women’s IPL ?

Since we already have 33 players, the question is of the remaining 27, to make it a total of 60 players, that is 15 per side.

Based on the on-going senior women’s one-day tournament and past domestic T20 fixtures, we have picked up 27 players, who are proficient and have the ability to play at the highest level. Here is the list of 27 players that ensures that we have enough bench strength and a 4 Team Women’s T20 Challenge is very much possible.

Sr. No.	Player	State	Proficiency
1	Divya Gnanananda	Karnataka	Batting
2	Sarika Koli	Sikkim	All-rounder
3	Bhakti Tamore	Pondicherry	Batting
4	Rinki Rajak	Sikkim	Batting
5	Ruchita Buley	Mizoram	All-rounder
6	Sayali Satghare	Mumbai	Bowling
7	Minnu Mani	Kerala	All-rounder
8	Mansi Joshi	India player	Bowling
9	MD Thirushkamini	Railways	Batting
10	Niranjana Nagarajan	Tamil Nadu	All-rounder
11	Sneh Rana	Railways	Bowling
12	Amruta Saran	Pondicherry	Bowling
13	Nupur Kohale	Vidarbha	Bowling
14	Lalita Sharma	Delhi	Bowling
15	Kanika Ahuja	Punjab	Bowling
16	Priti Yadav	Madhya Pradesh	Bowling
17	Madhusmita Behera	Odisha	Bowling
18	Sajana S	Karnataka	Bowling
19	Indrani Roy	Jharkhand	Batting
20	Bhawna Ohlan	Haryana	Batting
21	P P Paul	West Bengal	Batting
22	C H Jhansi Lakshmi	Andhra Pradesh	Batting
23	Bharati Fulmali	Vidarbha	Batting
24	S Shubha	Karnataka	Batting
25	Mamtha Kanojia	Hyderabad	Batting
26	S Meghana	Railways	Batting
27	Amanjot Kaur	Chandigarh	Batting

 

Through this article, we take the opportunity to invite you to contribute your 27 players, who according to you can make it to the Women’s T20 Challenge this year.

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