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Chennai Super Kings captain though admits it is time to revamp the team’s core

Nagraj Gollapudi01-Nov-2020″Definitely not.”With those words MS Dhoni assured the Chennai Super Kings fans that he is not retiring from the IPL. Dhoni, who retired from international cricket on August 15, said that he would be back next IPL, but admitted that it was time to revamp the Super Kings’ core group at the next mega auction.Dhoni had challenged the Super Kings to stay “relevant” in the competition after the three-time champions had become the first team to be eliminated from the play-off race this IPL. Although the Super Kings finished last, they managed to somewhat erase that disappointment with victory in their last three matches in the league phase including their final contest on Sunday against Kings XI Punjab.Dhoni the batsman had his worst IPL as he managed just 200 runs in 12 innings at a strike rate of 116. Once the best finisher in the white-ball cricket, Dhoni was woeful and on several occasions this IPL as he failed to carry his team past the target.Speculation about his future was trending on social media each time players from rival IPL teams posed with his No. 7 jersey. On Sunday Dhoni ensured twice, initially at the toss and then at the post-match presentation that he was going nowhere.”May be they thought I’m retiring – you know retired from international cricket, may be I’ll retire form the shortest form also,”Dhoni jokingly told Harsha Bhogle after the Super Kings’ win. When Bhogle checked to confirm whether that was actually going to happen, with a smile and a nod, Dhoni said: “definitely not.”The Super Kings endured their worst IPL campaign on different fronts. First, the abrupt return to India of Suresh Raina, their vice-captain, who left the IPL bubble in the UAE in controversial circumstances, which led to the Super Kings’ owner N Srinivasan to claim that the player would regret his decisionJos Buttler receives a special gift after finishing the chase for the Rajasthan Royals•BCCI

The challenge for Dhoni and Super Kings’ coaching staff led by Stephen Fleming mounted after senior offspinner Harbhajan Singh opted out of the IPL due to personal reasons and never arrived in the UAE.Further misery unfolded as Deepak Chahar and Ruturaj Gaikwad were among a group of more than a dozen in the Super Kings contingent to test positive for Covid-19, which robbed the squad of valuable training time.Despite all that Super Kings got off to a winning start surprising defending champions Mumbai Indians in the tournament opener. However the losing run started soon and the slide was sudden and steep. Dhoni agreed that the “template” that his team found in the four wins at the back end of the tournament was missing in the first half.”It was a difficult campaign for us. I don’t think we played to the full potential. We did commit a lot of errors at different points in the tournament, but the last four games could be the template as to where we would have liked ourselves to be.”Still, very proud of the way the guys played because seven or eight games in the tournament and if you are lagging behind too much it becomes very difficult to push yourself and come out with performances. That is where each and everybody had to contribute, and really proud the way they played cricket. It is not an easy one: you wouldn’t want to be in a dressing room that is not really enjoying cricket. If the dressing room atmosphere is not happy then it becomes very tough.”Dhoni, though, said that the Super Kings will bounce back next IPL. “We will come back strong. That’s what we are known for. Yes, this has been a tough year. Yes, we are eighth on the table. This is one of the seasons where most of the teams played well or you can say, okay, one team played brilliantly, which is Mumbai Indians, and the rest all played badly to be in a big cluster.”MS Dhoni speaks in the team huddle•BCCI

‘Need to change core group’
According to Dhoni it was time for the Super Kings management to plan for the next decade and not focus on the next IPL. Part of that process, Dhoni pointed out, would mean an overhaul of the squad including building a new core group of players, who would be bought at the next mega auction.The BCCI has not yet disclosed to the franchises when it plans to have that mega auction. Originally it was schedule to take place before the 2021 IPL. However with the next IPL scheduled for next April, it is more than likely the BCCI would conduct a mini auction.”A lot depends on what the BCCI will decide about the auction,”Dhoni said on the Super Kings’ future plans. “We need to slightly change our core group and look at the next 10 years. Because at the start of the IPL we made a team it served well for us for the next 10 years. There comes a time where you have to shift a bit, change a bit, and hand it over to the next generation.”That’s what will be the policy: try to form a strong core group and if there is a small or big auction, then each year complement players getting into the core group. That’s where we lacked this season, we missed quite a few players, but that’s something we will do in the next auction.”

Charlie Hemphrey vigil in vain as Glamorgan suffer first defeat of Championship season

ECB Reporters Network16-Jul-2019It took Middlesex 90 minutes on the final morning to take the last four Glamorgan wickets and inflict on them their first Championship defeat of the season and also the heaviest defeat the Welsh county have suffered in terms of runs.The seventh-wicket pair of Charlie Hemphrey and Graham Wagg resisted for 50 minutes to share a partnership of 62 before Hemphrey’s vigil, lasing more than five hours, ended. He had faced 254 balls which included a six and eight fours before he became the second Glamorgan opener in the innings to feather an innocuous delivery down the leg-side to the wicketkeeper.It was a disappointing end to a chanceless innings, but Hemphrey showed that he has all the attributes to develop into a successful opener as he comes to terms with his first season in county cricket.Wagg went shortly afterwards for 40, guiding a delivery from Toby Roland-Jones to second slip, and the Middlesex seamer, armed with the new ball, removed Lukas Carey’s off stump to claim his fifth wicket to end with 5 for 68 for the innings and his ninth wicket for the match Former England bowler Roland-Jones has been a revelation since returning from injury and indifferent form, claiming 19 wickets in the last two games.”It’s been great to be back and contributing,” Roland-Jones said. “And after such along time out with injury it’s taken some time to find my rhythm again. I’m over that now and hopefully we can carry this success on for the remainder of the season.”Facing defeat, Marchant De Lange decided it was time for some lusty blows, and when Tim Murtagh was recalled, also with the new ball, De Lange struck him for 24, with two sixes and three fours, in the only over he bowled before being replaced.After De Lange and Michael Hogan had enjoyed themselves with a rapid partnership of 35, the fun ended when Nathan Sowter had Hogan caught on the long-off boundary for 22, with De lange undefeated on 45.Hemphrey, who top scored with 72 for the home team said: “After some missed chances in their first innings and tumbling to 25 for 5 at the end of the day, we were always playing catch up, and from then on Middlesex had the momentum and came at us hard. We fought back in the second innings to get near 300, and it was nice to contribute but Middlesex thoroughly deserved their win.”

Pitch orientation forced tournament organisers to admit defeat when World Cup fixtures were confirmed

Andrew Miller26-Apr-2018The ICC was forced to abandon the notion of staging World Cup matches at London’s Olympic Stadium next year, due to concerns that the setting sun would render one end of the pitch unusable from a playing and television perspective.Despite a clear desire to incorporate East London’s iconic stadium into plans for what has been billed as the “World’s Greatest Cricket Celebration”, the tournament organisers were forced to admit defeat when the World Cup fixtures were confirmed by the ICC this morning.The omission was “very disappointing”, said Steve Elworthy, the tournament director, who had envisaged turning the entire Olympic Park into a focal point for fans across London, with a particular emphasis on the Asian and Caribbean populations of the host borough, Newham.This decision came after an exhaustive feasibility study, which even included Andrew Strauss and Eoin Morgan shadow-batting along the three orientations – North-South, East-West and 55-degree – that had been considered for the laying of the drop-in wickets that have been prepared at Lord’s and Loughborough in the lead-up to the event.Of these, the North-South option would have been the operational preference, in keeping with the majority of the other 11 selected venues, including Old Trafford – the host of the marquee India-Pakistan match – which rotated its own pitch by 90 degrees as part of a major redevelopment in 2010.However, the studies concluded that a North-South pitch would have caused too much upheaval to the architecture of the stadium, which includes permanent replay screens at both ends of the ground, both of which would be rendered unusable due to their impacting on the batsman’s line of sight.That would have necessitated the erection of temporary replacement scoreboards and TV gantries, while the press facilities, currently situated on the west side of the ground, would have had to have been moved behind the bowler’s arm at the southern end. The overall impact, not to mention the exorbitant costs of such a refit, would have been the loss of approximately 28,000 seats – or the equivalent of a full house at Lord’s.The notion of angling the wicket at 55 degrees across the venue was ruled out for similar logistical reasons – oblique sight-screens and overflow press facilities would have had to be erected, while the spectator experience of watching from seats not directly aligned to the action would have been unsatisfactory.The only option would have been to face the setting sun, but for a left-hander such as Morgan in particular, this would have necessitated staring directly into the light for the latter part of a day-game.”The sun was a big challenge,” said Morgan. “What they have at the moment is a Perspex roof, which allowed the sun to come directly over the bowler’s arm, and to have it in the opposite direction would have meant a bit of a shorter boundary. There were a lot more challenges, but we did go out and have a look at it. It’s a beautiful stadium.”Further challenges included the repositioning of the floodlights, which have been folded in from their previous high position during the 2012 Olympics and are now just 20 metres from the ground – good for West Ham’s purposes as a football club but far from ideal for high catches in cricket.And West Ham’s residency caused more complications for the ICC – with a six-week turnaround required at either end of the football season creating an extremely limited window for test events.Despite from interest from Essex in particular since the stadium’s inception, the venue has never yet hosted a cricket match of any length, and the likelihood of that ever now happening seems remote, at least while West Ham remain the venue’s principal tenants.Despite suggestions that West Ham’s under-soil heating would have been an issue for the laying of the drop-in wickets, the bigger concern for the ICC was the fear of serious injury – akin to that of Simon Jones at Brisbane in the 2002-03 Ashes – on what would have had to be a raised sand-based outfield.

A round-up of the Group D games in the 2016-17 Vijay Hazare Trophy, which took place on February 25, 2017

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Feb-2017Hyderabad seamer Ravi Kiran and left-arm spinner Mehdi Hasan took three wickets each to help their side bowl out Jammu & Kashmir for 228 and set up a 29-run win. A 70-run partnership for the fourth wicket between Parvez Rasool and Ahmed Bandy, which came at more than eight runs an over, had put J&K’s chase of 258 back on track after quick wickets. However, once both batsmen were out, the lower order slumped quickly – J&K lost their five wickets for 22 runs to fold in the 43rd over.Earlier, fifties from openers Tanmay Agarwal and Akshath Reddy carried Hyderabad to 257. Their 127-run opening partnership gave Hyderabad a platform strong enough to survive a brief slide where they lost four wickets within five overs, before S Badrinath and Hasan nudged the score past 200. Hasan remained unbeaten on 28 off 26 balls, having seen the side through to 257.MS Dhoni’s 50-ball 43 and Saurabh Tiwary’s 68 were not enough to help Jharkhand chase down a target of 267 against Karnataka, who won by five runs with only one ball to spare. The pair came together with Jharkhand at 79 for 4 in the 20th over and added 81 runs to put the chase back on track. After Dhoni fell, Tiwary kept the chase alive with a rapid 39 runs for the seventh wicket with Shabaz Nadeem off 26 deliveries. However, Tiwary’s dismissal in the 42nd over left Jharkhand with another 63 to get and although the lower order strung up partnerships, the side was eventually dismissed off the penultimate ball of the game. Rahul Shukla was the last man to fall, run out for 23 off 20 balls, having driven the lower-order partnerships. K Gowtham had returns of 4 for 58.Shukla had earlier taken 4 for 45 in his nine overs as Karnataka were bowled out for 266. Ravikumar Samarth (71) and Manish Pandey (77) struck fifties and shared a 116-run partnership for the third wicket. Pavan Deshpande, too, chipped in with 36 off 34 balls.Seamer Suraj Yadav and wicketkeeper-batsman Nakul Verma played stellar hands in Services‘ 48-run victory over Saurashtra.Yadav struck three times in his first two overs – including two wickets off two balls in the first over – to leave Saurashtra’s chase of 263 in trouble. Their score of 6 for 3 soon became 44 for 5 and they only managed to limp to 215 due to half-centuries from Prerak Mankad (58) and Jaydev Unadkat (57). Yadav returned to pick up one more wicket for figures of 4 for 47.Earlier, Verma’s second List-A century, 124 off 132 balls at the top of the order, set the base for Services’ total of 263 for 9. The remaining Services batsmen got starts but only Soumya Swain made a substantial contribution among them, with 32 off 36 deliveries. Seamer Shaurya Sanandia took 4 for 67 for Saurashtra

The BCCI working committee has decided to set in motion the process for hiring a CEO and CFO for the board

Arun Venugopal19-Feb-20163:57

Venugopal: Confusion around BCCI’s combined affidavit

The BCCI working committee has decided to set in motion the process for hiring a chief executive officer (CEO) and chief financial officer (CFO) for the board. The decision was taken at the working committee in Mumbai on Friday, which was followed by a special general meeting (SGM) of the board. The big domestic news to come out of the SGM was the decision to grant full-member status to Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh – meaning they will now play BCCI tournaments including the Ranji Trophy, taking the number of Ranji teams up to 28.On the international front, it was decided to rework the BCCI’s future tours programme (FTP) for the period 2016 to 2023, to “ensure equitable distribution of the matches”. Following the ICC revamp in 2014, when the main FTP-setting powers passed from the ICC to the individual boards, the BCCI signed bilateral agreements that confirmed India would play the most Tests (20) against England from 2015 to 2023, followed by Australia (16) and South Africa (12), with teams see as less attractive opposition seemingly losing out.The creation of the post of a CEO was a change recommended by the Lodha panel, which had looked into the governance of the board, and submitted a report with the Supreme Court of India, which was then passed on to the BCCI. One of the big recommendations dealt with the board separating its governance and management duties, with the CEO taking charge of the management side of things. The board was supposed to let the court know by March 3 about the implementation of all the recommendations. “If you have any difficulty in implementing it, we will have the Lodha Committee implement it for you,” Justice Thakur had told the BCCI counsel.IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla, though, said the board’s decision to create the posts had nothing to do with the Lodha recommendation. “This is based on the ‘Project Transformation’ report,” Shukla said. In October, auditing giant M/S Deloitte was hired for “Project Transformation”, the board’s initiative aimed at improving governance, and operational and financial processes, according to a statement explaining the project on the BCCI’s website.With regards to the Lodha recommendations, the BCCI decided to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court to point out the “anomalies” in the Lodha report, and the “difficulties” encountered in the implementation of all its recommendations. While BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur said the affidavit will be filed on March 3 – the deadline given by the Supreme Court – IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla said it would be done earlier. “We will file our affidavit before the deadline. KK Venugopal is appearing for us [in this case],” Shukla said.

Moeen Ali’s first double-century for Worcestershire heaped scoreboard pressure on a fast disintegrating Glamorgan in Division Two match at New Road

21-Jun-2013
ScorecardMoeen Ali made Worcestershire’s first Championship double hundred in nearly four years•PA Photos

Moeen Ali’s first double-century for Worcestershire heaped scoreboard pressure on a fast disintegrating Glamorgan in Division Two match at New Road.The 26-year-old left hander’s career-best 250, accumulated from 367 balls in a little over eight hours, put his side in the happy position of declaring at 505 for 7 after losing the toss on the first morning.Glamorgan immediately lurched into trouble, losing two wickets in 20 overs before tea and three more in the final session before closing the second day at 164 for 5, still 192 short of making the hosts bat again.Worcestershire always felt they could get something out the pitch and their seam trio of Alan Richardson, Chris Russell and Jack Shantry successfully put the theory into practice.Recalled keeper Ben Cox held two catches, Ben Wright and Marcus North were bowled after making some headway and Matt Pardoe sprawled forward at short midwicket to take a bat-pad chance from Stewart Walters.It was only in the last hour that Jim Allenby, unbeaten with 56 from 72 balls, checked their momentum with support from captain Mark Wallace.Earlier, a shoal of statistics gathered around Moeen as he added 95 to his overnight score of 155 before Dean Cosker claimed his wicket when a tired-looking shot found Mike Reed a few yards inside the boundary rope at long-off.By then he had leapfrogged all of his rivals in the race to be first to 1,000 first-class runs this season. Now on 900, he is 11 ahead of England’s Joe Root. A slow surface was made for a batsman intent on playing a long innings, although his performance was not entirely flawless with several shots skewing off the outside edge to the third man area.But the bottom line could not be questioned when he departed with 26 fours and two sixes to his name. Having posted Worcestershire’s first double-hundred in the Championship for nearly four years, he went on to match Graeme Hick, Glenn Turner and Don Kenyon in becoming the fourth player to make 250 or more for the county on the New Road ground.Nothing much went right for Glamorgan’s bowlers when Worcestershire resumed with 322 for 3 on the board from the first day. First they were held up for more than hour by Shantry, the nightwatchman making 32 out of a stand of 70, and even when three wickets tumbled in a dozen balls, they were knocked by a stand of 101 between Moeen and Cox.Cosker emerged with most credit. After conceding 22 runs in his first two overs on Thursday, he straightened out his figures with a return of 4 for 68.Apart from dismissing the two top scorers, Pardoe and Moeen, the left-arm spinner took wickets in successive overs, holding a return catch from Shantry and trapping Championship debutant Tom Fell for a first-ball duck.

Gloucestershire’s future in Bristol has been secured after planning permission for the development of Nevil Road was granted on appeal

Alex Winter30-May-2012Gloucestershire’s future in Bristol has been secured after planning permission for the development of Nevil Road was granted on appeal. The club’s revised plans were voted seven to three in favour by Bristol City Council.The original application was rejected in January, raising fears that the club would be forced out of Bristol – their home since the formation of the club in 1870. But the plans were scaled down and building can now start at the end of this season.The initial objection was about the height of of the apartment block at the Ashley Down end of the ground – the development that will fund the £10 million project. The design was reduced by a storey but still maintained 147 dwellings – the number necessary to make the apartment block financially viable – by lengthening the building. The sustainability of the building was also improved and three councillors accepted the amendments – a swing sufficient to see the application approved.Gloucestershire were aided at the council meeting by Paul Russell, the former chairman of Glamorgan who oversaw the transformation of Sophia Gardens into a Test ground, and Robert Griffiths QC, who was in charge of the proposed £400 million redevelopment of Lord’s before the project was scrapped. Griffiths was also involved in the rebuilding of Old Trafford.Development can now take place to bring Nevil Road up to ECB standards for international cricket. Gloucestershire have staged an international each year since 1999 – a match which generates £1 million for the local economy and is essential to the club’s business model.The delay in gaining permission saw Bristol stripped of an ODI against New Zealand, scheduled for 2013, together with budget constrictions that saw long-serving players Jon Lewis and Chris Taylor leave the county. The club was forced to turn to the city council for financial help and were granted a £400,000 bridging loan to help afford the professional services to remodel the planning application. But the financial pressure should now begin to ease and Gloucestershire hope to welcome India for an ODI in 2014.Around 7,000 permanent seats will be installed mostly on the side of the ground adjacent to City of Bristol College, with 10,000 temporary seats brought in for international matches. A world-class media centre will be built in a new pavilion, along with an improved business centre and cricketing facilities.Gloucestershire chief executive, Tom Richardson, was pleased the drawn-out process had finally been resolved. “We are very pleased that the committee has come to this decision as it finally allows us to realise our ambitions in bringing the very best of what cricket can offer to our home city.”We have many people to thank – it has been a long journey and a huge amount of hard work has gone into it, which in turn has been supported by residents across Bristol, including our local area of Bishopston. We can now look forward to making the next stage of our plans happen.”

Anthony Stuart reckons Australian cricket must develop a greater appetite for hard work if major success is to follow.

Daniel Brettig16-May-2011Anthony Stuart, the recently appointed New South Wales coach, reckons Australian cricket must develop a greater appetite for hard work if major success is to follow.Named as the man to replace Matthew Mott after spending five trophy-less years as the provincial coach of Wellington in New Zealand, Stuart’s reputation is one of meticulous preparation and stern advice. He has every intention of keeping that up with the Blues, who have tended to yo-yo between successful seasons and dire ones over the past decade.Stuart’s attitude is reflected in his thoughts about the national team, in which he enjoyed a brief but bright stint in 1997 that culminated in a hat-trick at the MCG against Pakistan. At the time Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne were developing the partnership that would dominate world cricket for more than a decade. Stuart cannot see anyone of their ilk on the horizon.”I think the guys have got a lot of hard work in front of them,” he said. “I think the days are gone where we’ve got guys who could take wickets at will. When Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath retired we lost 1400 Test wickets. The guys understand there are greater challenges for them out there now and the guys have to be prepared for that. If they want to get back to the top of the pile then they’ve got to expect to do a lot of hard work.”The NSW chief executive, David Gilbert, has spoken admiringly of Stuart’s passion for the Blue cap and willingness to make hard decisions – the sort of advance billing that can make established players nervous but younger ones ambitious. Stuart is sure he will need to be tough in charge, expecting professionalism from his squad.”I think the guys are fully aware that they are full-time professional athletes,” he said. “They’ve got to expect that when they come they come to work and they come to work hard. I don’t think I’m going to be telling them anything different that they don’t already know. With a different voice and maybe a different philosophy on things that might be the key to make a difference.”I’m not here to reinvent the wheel, the boys have had some short-term success in the last few years and my job is to just challenge them that little bit further and make sure guys are continually wanting to improve and that’s why I’m here.”I’ll be tough when I need to be but the players have to be tough when they need to be as well. My job is to make sure that we don’t get comfortable, we make sure we turn up with the right attitude at every training session, let alone every game. That’s important for guys that they’re not always going to be feeling great every day, every training and gym session but it’s important that when you are feeling tough that you come with the right attitude.”Because that’s when good players and good sides get through in tough situations, when they find that extra bit when they’re not feeling great but they find a way to win.”One player welcoming Stuart to the fold is the sometime Test off spinner Nathan Hauritz, who is presently trying to prove his fitness in time to be considered for the tour of Sri Lanka in August.
“I think it’s a very positive step forward for NSW,” he said. “There’s a very young group, a medium to young group, and it’s time for those guys to mould their own dynasty, like back when it was the Waughs and [Stuart] MacGills.”At NSW now it’s probably time for Moises Henriques, young Nic Maddinson, Pat Cummins, all those kids coming through, to be able to do that. I think Anthony Stuart will allow them to do that.”

Former England captain Michael Vaughan believes England need to play five bowlers if they are to win an Ashes series in Australia for the first time since Mike Gatting’s side did it over 20 years ago

Cricinfo staff25-May-2010Former England captain Michael Vaughan believes England need to play five bowlers if they are to win an Ashes series in Australia for the first time since Mike Gatting’s side did it over 20 years ago. However, Vaughan feels the current England set-up, led by coach Andy Flower and captain Andrew Strauss, will choose to play an extra-batsman instead.”The debate all summer will be about England’s formation,” Vaughan told AFP. “Will it be six batters and four bowlers, or five and five? I firmly believe they are going to need five bowlers in Australia but I think this management group and Strauss will go with six and four.”They will say they win as many games with four (bowlers) as they do with five. I guess the question I will say is ‘well how many real top teams do we beat with four?'”Vaughan opted for a five-man attack during England’s thrilling home win over Australia in 2005. That line-up was led by a rampant Steve Harmison, and included Andrew Flintoff, Simon Jones, Matthew Hoggard and Ashley Giles. He also pointed out that England used five bowlers in their two Ashes Test victories in 2009.”We beat Australia last year with Freddie (Flintoff) in the team twice, at Lord’s and the Oval, and with five bowlers. I think we need five bowlers. I think Tim Bresnan is a good enough batter to bat at seven, with Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad at eight and nine. But I think they will go in with six (batsmen).”Vaughan, while praising Swann, expressed concern that Australia could target England’s player of the year if he was part of a four-man attack. “He’s had a wonderful year but I just worry that if Swanny doesn’t get it right and the opposition do attack him a little bit more, three seamers on days one and two looks very, very light,” he said. “Maybe they’ll get some overs out of Kevin Pietersen and Paul Collingwood but they are not going to do much damage. We’ll wait and see. But from what I’ve seen of Andy Flower, I think they’ll go with six batters.”Vaughan went on to applaud England’s victory in the World Twenty20 final, the team’s first win in an ICC tournament, calling it an “amazing achievement”. But he insisted it still didn’t compare to the Ashes. “It’s not as important as the Ashes, don’t get me wrong. The Ashes is the pinnacle but, as an achievement, it’s right up there.”

Uma Chetry is the only member of India’s Asia Cup side to have been dropped

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Aug-20248:27

Is this India’s best chance to win the World Cup?

India have named a familiar-looking squad for the women’s T20 World Cup 2024 retaining the bulk of the side that qualified for the final of the women’s T20 Asia Cup in July this year.Fourteen of the 15 players in the World Cup squad were also part of the Asia Cup side, with only Uma Chetry missing out. India have instead picked Yastika Bhatia, but her inclusion is subject to fitness, and so is Shreyanka Patil’s, after she suffered a fractured finger in her left hand during an Asia Cup game against Pakistan.Bhatia, the wicketkeeper-batter, was Mumbai Indians’ third-highest run-scorer in WPL 2024 with 204 runs in in eight outings. She played the first T20I against Bangladesh in Sylhet in April but has been out of action since. She is currently recuperating at the BCCI’s National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru for an injury in her left knee.Tanuja Kanwar, who replaced Patil in the India squad for the Asia Cup, has not been included, but has been named among the travelling reserves. Along with Kanwar, Chetry, also a wicketkeeper-batter, and fast bowler Saima Thakor have been named in the reserves. Batter Raghvi Bist and legspinner Priya Mishra, who were both part of the India A squad that travelled to Australia recently, have been named non-travelling reserves.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Harmanpreet Kaur will continue leading the side, with Smriti Mandhana the vice-captain. Along with the two, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma are expected to form the spine of the batting. Renuka Singh will lead the fast-bowling unit alongside Pooja Vastrakar. Deepti, Radha Yadav and Patil are the main spinners.India are placed in Group A at the World Cup along with Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and are targeting their first women’s T20 World Cup title.The tournament was originally set to be played in Bangladesh, but was shifted to the UAE last week in the aftermath of the countrywide anti-government agitations in Bangladesh, with a number of countries issuing travel advisories to their citizens against travelling to the country..The tournament gets underway on October 3 in Sharjah with the final slotted for October 20 in Dubai. India begin their campaign against New Zealand in Dubai on October 4 in an evening game and will play Pakistan on October 6 at the same venue.

India squad for Women’s T20 World Cup

Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Smriti Mandhana (vice-capt), Yastika Bhatia* (wk), Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh, D Hemalatha, Asha Sobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil*, Sajeevan Sajana