India Woman vs England: 17-year-old Shafali Verma named in ODI & Test team

BCCI on Friday has announced India's Senior Women squad for the only Test match, ODI, and T20 series against England.

The young 17-year-old opener Shafali Verma broke into the ODI and Test team for the first time. She was recently the number one T20 batting rankings and she is being considered an important member Indian side ahead of 50-over World Cup in February next year.

Mithali Raj will be the captain for both Test and ODI series while Harmanpreet Kaur will take the charge as the T20I skipper.

Taniya Bhatia and Indrani Roy have been named as the two wicketkeeping options for the tour and Uncapped Roy from Jharkhand is in the talking points.

India’s Senior Women squad for Test & ODI: Mithali Raj (Captain), Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur (vice-captain), Punam Raut, Priya Punia, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Sneh Rana, Taniya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Indrani Roy (wicket-keeper), Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, Radha Yadav.

India’s Senior Women squad for T20I: Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain) Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Richa Ghosh, Harleen Deol, Sneh Rana, Taniya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Indrani Roy (wicket-keeper), Shikha Pandey, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, Radha Yadav, Simran Dil Bahadur.

India Women's team will play a historic one-off Test against England in Bristol as part and three ODI and as many T20Is starting June 16 under the newly appointed coach Ramesh Powar.

ECB Chief Executive Officer, Tom Harrison, had said, "We're really looking forward to a busy summer in what is a huge year for our England Women's team, and we're very excited about hosting India and New Zealand."