Ahead of the extremely anticipated ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, India Women’s opener Shafali Verma expressed her admiration for Australia’s Alyssa Healy, praising her batting efficiency in the course of the powerplay. India will kick off their T20 World Cup marketing campaign towards New Zealand on October 4 at Dubai International Stadium. Prior to the event, India will play warm-up matches towards the West Indies and South Africa. “I’d say Alyssa Healy, as a result of every time she is in good kind, she makes the many of the powerplay and continues to construct her innings afterward. She at all times seems to play the total 20 overs, so I’d select her,” Shafali mentioned in an interview with Star Sports.
India reached their first-ever T20 World Cup closing in 2020 on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, an evening crammed with hope for clinching the elusive title. However, Harmanpreet’s aspect was bowled out for 99 whereas chasing 185 towards Australia.
In the earlier version of the T20 World Cup in 2022, India as soon as once more got here shut to creating historical past, reaching the semi-finals. However, Australia as soon as extra proved to be an impediment within the closing 4.
In the lead-up to the T20 World Cup, India has had blended outcomes. They misplaced the T20I collection towards Australia and England earlier this 12 months, however Harmanpreet’s aspect rebounded with two consecutive collection wins towards Bangladesh.
In July, India’s T20I collection towards South Africa resulted in a draw. In the Asia Cup 2024, India misplaced the ultimate to Sri Lanka, who remained unbeaten all through the event.
Squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Sobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sajana Sajeevan.
Travelling reserves: Uma Chetry (wk), Tanuja Kanwer, Saima Thakor.
Non-travelling reserves: Raghvi Bist, Priya Mishra.
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