Indian Women’s Squad For ICC World Cup 2017 Announced
Mar 2, 2019 at 1:07 PM
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday announced the squad for the 11th ICC Women’s World Cup, to be held between June 24 and July 23.
The All-India Women’s Selection Committee met earlier today to select the India Women’s Cricket Team for the upcoming ICC Women’s World Cup 2017.
February saw matches for qualification in ICC women’s world cup. The final was contested between India and South Africa, with India winning by 1 wicket. Along with the two finalists, both Sri Lanka and Pakistan have qualified for the 2017 Women’s Cricket World Cup. As well as the four qualifiers for the Cricket World Cup, Bangladesh and Ireland kept their ODI status until 2021 by virtue of them reaching the Super Six stage of the tournament. Mona Meshram replaced Smriti Mandhana in India’s squad after Mandhana was injured during a match in the 2016-17 Women’s Big Bash League, but now the 20-year-old Smriti makes a comeback. Later, both Jhulan and Sukanya were also ruled out of India’s squad due to injury. They were replaced by Soni Yadav and Mansi Joshi respectively.
On 8 February 2016, the ICC announced the five venues for the 2017 Women’s World Cup. Lord’s will host the final, and other matches will be played at the home grounds of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Somerset and Gloucestershire.
Veteran batswoman Mithali Raj will captain the side that will compete in the eight-team competition Britain.
Mithali Raj (Captain), Harmanpreet Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy, Mona Meshram, Punam Raut, Deepti Sharma, Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey, Ekta Bisht, Sushma Verma, Mansi Joshi, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav, Nuzhat Parveen, Smriti Mandhana.