Squad Announced: India Women's team for South Africa

BCCI selection committee on Thursday announced the Indian women’s squad for 3 Match ODI series and for the first 3 T20I games (out of 5 T20Is)

Mithali Raj to lead the ODI side in a 3 match series against South Africa in Baroda. Mithali Raj yesterday announced her retirement from T20I to focus more on the longer format.

India squad for first ODIs vs South Africa Women in Baroda:

Mithali Raj (C), Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (vc), Punam Raut, Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Taniya Bhatia (WK), Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey, Mansi Joshi, Ekta Bisht, Poonam Yadav, D Hemalatha, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Priya Punia.

India squad for first 3 T20Is vs South Africa Women in Surat:

Harmanpreet (C), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Poonam Yadav, Shikha Pandey, Arundhati Reddy, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav, Veda Krishnamurthy, Harleen Deol, Anuja Patil, Shafali Verma, Mansi Joshi

Squad for the remaining 2 T20Is to be announced later.

Fixtures for South Africa Women’s tour of India are as follows:

Warm-ups:

September 20: Board President’s XI vs South Africa, Surat
September 22: Board President’s XI vs South Africa, Surat

Also Read: Board President’s XI squad for two warm-up games against South Africa Women announced

5-Match T20I series:

24 September: 1st T20I: India vs South Africa, Lalbhai Contractor Stadium, Surat
26 September: 2nd T20I: India vs South Africa, Lalbhai Contractor Stadium, Surat
29 September: 3rd T20I: (D/N) India vs South Africa, Lalbhai Contractor Stadium, Surat
1 October: 4th T20I: (D/N) India vs South Africa, Lalbhai Contractor Stadium, Surat
4 October: 5th T20I: (D/N) India vs South Africa, Lalbhai Contractor Stadium, Surat

Also Read: ODI debut for 23-year-old Priya Punia on the cards

3-Match ODI series:

9 October: 1st ODI: India vs South Africa, Baroda
11 October: 2nd ODI: India vs South Africa, Baroda
14 October: 3rd T20I: India vs South Africa, Baroda