Jemimah Rodrigues, Pooja Vastrakar named in India squads, topic to health

Batter Jemimah Rodrigues and allrounder Pooja Vastrakar have been named in India’s Take a look at and white-ball squads for the upcoming dwelling collection towards South Africa, however their choice is topic to health.

Rodrigues had missed the five-match T20I collection in Bangladesh in April-Might with a again damage and underwent rehab on the Nationwide Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru. Vastrakar, nevertheless, had performed all 5 video games in Bangladesh and the BCCI media assertion didn’t specify the character of her damage.

Uncapped wicketkeeper-batter Uma Chetry was additionally included in all three squads. She changed Yastika Bhatia who was out injured after taking part in only one T20I in Bangladesh. Chetry had additionally been a part of the India’s Asian Video games squad that beat Sri Lanka to win gold in Hangzhou in 2023.High-order batter Priya Punia, who final performed for India in July 2023, earned a call-up to the Take a look at aspect. Medium-pacer Arundhati Reddy, who has performed 26 T20Is to date, was referred to as as much as the Take a look at and ODI squads as effectively. Nonetheless, quick bowler Titas Sadhu, who was a part of the T20Is towards Bangladesh in addition to India’s final ODI and Take a look at assignments (towards Australia final 12 months), missed out.Following a good run within the WPL 2024, the place she picked up eight wickets in 9 video games for Delhi Capitals, Reddy impressed with each ball and bat within the Senior Ladies Inter Zonal Multi-Day Trophy in April. She scored 174 runs, together with two fifties, and took two wickets, in two video games for South Zone.Legspinner S Asha, who had made her T20I debut in Bangladesh, earned her maiden ODI call-up whereas D Hemalatha, who had made her comeback in that collection in Bangladesh, may return to ODI motion after virtually two years. Hemalatha additionally retained her place within the T20I squad.Harleen Deol, who was a part of the squad for the ODIs and one-off Take a look at towards Australia in December-January, was ignored. She had picked up a knee damage early in WPL 2024 and underwent surgical procedure in March. The opposite absentee from the ODI squad towards Australia is left-arm spinner Mannat Kashyap.South Africa’s all-format ladies’s tour of India will start with a three-match ODI collection, then transfer to the one-off Take a look at, and finish with the three T20Is. The ODIs, in addition to a one-day warm-up sport for the visiting aspect towards a Board President’s XI aspect, will likely be performed in Bengaluru, whereas the remainder of the video games will happen in Chennai.

The one-off Take a look at wasn’t a part of the ICC’s FTP initially. It was added since BCCI and CSA have each been attempting to advertise ladies’s Assessments of late. This will likely be India’s third Take a look at in seven months, having performed towards England and Australia in December final 12 months, each at dwelling.

India’s squad for girls’s ODIs vs South Africa

Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Smriti Mandhana (vice-capt), Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues (topic to health), Richa Ghosh (wk), Uma Chetry (wk), Dayalan Hemalatha, Radha Yadav, Asha Sobhana, Shreyanka Patil, Saika Ishaque, Pooja Vastrakar (topic to health), Renuka Singh Thakur, Arundhati Reddy, Priya Punia

India’s squad for one-off ladies’s Take a look at vs South Africa

Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Smriti Mandhana (vice-capt), Shafali Verma, Shubha Satheesh, Jemimah Rodrigues (topic to health), Richa Ghosh (wk), Uma Chetry (wk), Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Pooja Vastrakar (topic to health), Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Meghna Singh, Priya Punia

India’s squad for girls’s T20Is vs South Africa

Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Smriti Mandhana (vice-capt), Shafali Verma, Dayalan Hemalatha, Uma Chetry (wk), Richa Ghosh (wk), Jemimah Rodrigues (topic to health), Sajana Sajeevan, Deepti Sharma, Shreyanka Patil, Radha Yadav, Amanjot Kaur, Asha Sobhana, Pooja Vastrakar (topic to health), Renuka Singh Thakur, Arundhati Reddy
Standby: Saika Ishaque