Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur were retained today as captains for the Indian Women’s ODI and T20 team while out-of-form Veda Krishnamurthy was dropped from both the squads picked for the New Zealand tour beginning next month. While Mithali will lead ODI team and Kaur head T20.
India will play three ODIs in New Zealand beginning on 24th of next month as part of the ICC Women’s Championship before playing three T20 Internationals.
The New Zealand tour will be the team’s first assignment after its controversial exit from the World T20 last month when it lost to England in the semi-finals. The 15-member squad for ODIs and T20s was announced a day after WV Raman was appointed as the head coach.
ODI Squad : Mithali Raj (Captain), Poonam Raut, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur, Deepti Sharma, Tanya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Mona Meshram, Ekta Bist, Mansi Joshi, Dayalan Hemlatha, Poonam Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Jhulan Goswami and Shikha Pandey.
T20 Squad : Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Mithali Raj, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Anuja Patil, Dayalan Hemlatha, Mansi Joshi, Shikha Pandey, Tanya Bhatia (wk), Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bist, Radha Yadav, Arundhati Reddy and Priya Punia.