High-order batter Shafali Verma was on Tuesday dropped from India’s 16-member girls’s group for the three-match ODI collection in Australia in December after a string of poor performances prior to now yr. The BCCI selectors appear to have as soon as once more misplaced endurance with the 20-year-old right-handed batter, whose current ODI type has been disappointing. Shafali has scored simply 108 runs in six matches this yr with 33 being the best. She was dropped in December final yr from the group halfway in the course of the dwelling ODI collection towards Australia on the idea of her poor run, earlier than making a comeback towards South Africa in June this yr in Bengaluru.
In truth, the teenager, rated as the subsequent large factor in Indian girls’s cricket when she broke into the group in 2021, has not scored a ODI half century since making an unbeaten 71 towards Sri Lanka in Pallekele in July 2022. Her subsequent highest rating was a 49 towards the identical opponent in the identical collection.
4 different gamers — Uma Chetry, Dayalan Hemalatha, Shreyanka Patil and Sayali Satghare — have been additionally overlooked from the squad that performed in India’s 2-1 dwelling collection win towards New Zealand in Ahmedabad final month.
Harleen Deol, Richa Ghosh, Minnu Mani, Titas Sadhu and Priya Punia are the 5 gamers who didn’t face New Zealand however have been named within the group for the Australia collection.
The primary two ODIs might be performed on the Allan Border Discipline in Brisbane on December 5 and eight earlier than the motion shifts to WACA Floor, Perth on December 11 for the ultimate match of the collection, which is part of the ICC Ladies’s Championship.
India’s squad for three-match ODI collection: Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Priya Punia, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harleen Deol, Yastika Bhatia (WK), Richa Ghosh (WK), Tejal Hasabnis, Deepti Sharma, Minnu Mani, Priya Mishra, Radha Yadav, Titas Sadhu, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Saima Thakor.
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