The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup will this time be hosted in South Africa from February 10. India’s women’s team will kick off their campaign in this mega-event against arch-rivals Pakistan on February 12 at Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town. Harmanpreet Kaur will take the field for the third time in a row as captain in the T20 World Cup. In the last T20 World Cup hosted by Australia in the year 2020, the Indian team had reached the final but had to face defeat by the hosts in the title match.
This time, the Indian team has a place in Pool B in the T20 Women’s World Cup, which includes teams from England, West Indies and Ireland along with Pakistan. The top 2 teams in this group will be able to reach the semifinals. The semifinals of the Women’s T20 World Cup will be played on February 23 and 24. At the same time, the final match of the T20 World Cup will be played in Cape Town on February 26.
This will be the eighth edition of the T20 Women’s World Cup. At the beginning of the year 2009, for the first time, the T20 Women’s World Cup was hosted by England. So far, where the Australian women’s team has won this trophy 5 times, the England and West Indies women’s teams have also won the T20 World Cup title 1-1 times.
Smriti Mandhana, Jemima Rodriguez, Devika Vaidya, Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Shefali Verma, Harleen Deol, Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Shikha Pandey, Yastika Bhatia, Richa Ghosh, Radha Yadav, Renuka Singh, Anjali Saravani, Rajeshwari Gaikwad.
Sabhineni Meghna, Sneh Rana, Meghna Singh.
February 12: Indian Women vs Pakistani Women, Newlands Cricket Ground (6:30pm India time)
Feb 15: Indian Women vs West Indies Women, Newlands Cricket Ground (6:30pm IST)
February 18: England Women vs India Women, St George’s Park (6:30pm IST)
Feb 20: Indian Women vs Irish Women, St. George’s Park (6:30pm IST)