The Indian ladies’s cricket crew will begin the three-match T20 collection towards Bangladesh from Sunday. All eyes shall be on India’s younger gamers on this tour. Many senior gamers are usually not a part of the squad on this collection on account of damage. In such a scenario, the crew will count on new faces to benefit from the alternatives and on the identical time would love the ‘finishers’ to enhance their sport. This is the primary worldwide match for the Harmanpreet Kaur-led crew in 4 months. After this T20 collection, the Indian crew can even play a three-match ODI collection in Bangladesh from July 16. At the worldwide degree, the Indian ladies’s crew final appeared within the T20 World Cup in South Africa, the place they narrowly misplaced to Australia within the knockout stage.

Team India want to take away these shortcomings

Indian ladies’s crew gamers have gotten lots of time to enhance on their sport. Earlier, Indian gamers have been seen in motion throughout the Women’s Premier League as nicely. The Indian ladies’s crew, nonetheless, has didn’t take its sport to the subsequent degree regardless of having all of the amenities. The crew wants to enhance in lots of elements together with health, bowling and lack of a ‘finisher’ function. All these items are essential for this format of the sport.

The crew will go with out these star gamers

Fast bowler Renuka Thakur and wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh, who’ve carried out exceptionally nicely for the crew within the final 12 months, won’t be seen with the crew on this tour. If Renuka is injured then Richa can be not part of this crew on account of health causes. Their absence will give new faces an opportunity to impress. In Richa’s absence, the skilled Deepti Sharma shall be anticipated to play the function of ‘finisher’. At the identical time, Pooja Vastrakar and Amanjot can even should contribute by scoring runs shortly on the finish of the innings. Yastika Bhatia and ‘uncapped’ Uma Chhetri are the 2 wicket-keeping choices within the crew. Although the Indian gamers mustn’t face a lot bother from the Bangladesh crew, the stress shall be on opener Shafali Verma, who has struggled towards the quick ball.

Apart from these, the absence of left-arm spinners Radha Yadav and Rajeshwari Gaikwad may give debuts to 20-year-old Anusha Bareddi and Rashi Kanojia. The collection shall be essential for Monika Patel and Meghna Singh by way of their comebacks as they might look to cement their place within the crew after being out for a lot of the final season. Noushin Al Khadeer, who guided India’s Under-19 crew to the World Cup title, has been appointed because the interim coach. This put up is vacant after the departure of Ramesh Pawar. All the matches of Bangladesh tour shall be performed at Shere Bangla National Stadium.

This is the squad of each the groups

India: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Shefali Verma, Jemima Rodrigues, Yastika Bhatia (wicketkeeper), Harleen Deol, Devika Vaidya, Uma Chhetri (wicketkeeper), Amanjot Kaur, S. Meghna, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Anjali Saravani, Monika Patel, Rashi Kanojia, Anusha Bareddi, Meenu Mani.

Bangladesh: Nigar Sultana (c, wk), Nahida Akhtar, Dilara Akhtar, Shathi Rani, Shamima Sultana, Shobhana Mostari, Murshida Khatoon, Shorna Akhtar, Ritu Moni, Disha Biswas, Marufa Akhtar, Sanjeeda Akhtar Meghla, Rabia Khan, Sultana Khatoon, Salma Khatoon Fahima Khatoon.

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