New Delhi: Hyderabad’s Mithali Raj will lead India women’s cricket team for a limited overs tour of Australia where they would play three ODIs and an equal number of T20 internationals. The series will be played from January 26 to February 7. Fast bowler Jhulan Goswami will be Mithali’s deputy.
India will kick-off their campaign with a T20 international on January 26 Day at the Adelaide Oval followed by the two T20Is in Melbourne on January 29 and in Sydney on Jan 31. The three-match ODI series begins on February 2 at Manuka Oval in Canberra and culminates at Hobart’s Blundstone Arena on February 7.
The squads
ODI: Mithali Raj (captatin), Jhulan Goswamy (vice captain), Smriti Mandhana, M.D. Thirushkamini, Harmanpreet Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy, Shikha Pandey, Niranjana Nagarajan, Sushma Verma, Kalpana R., Ekta Bisht, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Raut, Poonam Yadav and Sneh Rana.
T20: Mithali Raj (captatin), Jhulan Goswamy (vice captain), Smriti Mandhana, M.D. Thirushkamini, Harmanpreet Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy, Shikha Pandey, Niranjana Nagarajan, Sushma Verma, Ekta Bisht, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav, V.R. Vanitha, Anuja Patil, Deepti Sharma.
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