The Indian women’s cricket made a lot of noise
on May 14, when the opening duo of Deepti Sharma and Poonam Raut was involved
in record breaking partnership of 320 runs at Potchefstroom, South Africa. ICC
Women’s World Cup is just a month away and the team couldn’t have asked for a
better form than what they are enjoying currently.
Smriti Mandhana has made her way back to the
Indian team after recuperating from knee injury. Captain Mithali Raj will hope
that both, Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur, are able to capitalize on the experience
that they garnered from Women’s Big Bash League that was played in Australia,
early this year.
The team boasts of leading wicket-taker in
women’s ODI history; Jhulan Goswami as well as second highest run scorer in the
world; Mithali Raj. The infusion of young blood in the form of Veda
Krishnamurthy, Ekta Bisht and Shikha Pandey, to name a few, makes the Indian
team a complete package filled with youth and experience.
India’s track record in the ICC World Cup has
been a decent one. The team secured the runner-up position in 2005 losing to
Australia. They have
also been semi-finalists on three other occasions; 1997, 2000 and 2009.
Squad: Mithali Raj (c),
Harmanpreet Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy, Mona Meshram, Poonam Raut, Deepti Sharma,
Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey, Ekta Bisht, Sushma Verma (wk), Mansi Joshi,
Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav, Nuzhat Parveen, Smriti Mandhana
Source: Wikipedia
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