India squad for Women's ODI World Cup 2025: Team's explosive batter Shafali Verma failed to make the cut for the marquee tournament.
Fresh off a 2-1 ODI series win at home against New Zealand, the Harmanpreet-led side faces a tough challenge in the three-match series with a poor record of just four wins in 16 ODIs Down Under and a 1-2 loss in their last rubber in 2021.
Top-order batter Shafali Verma was on Tuesday dropped from India's 16-member women's team for the three-match ODI series in Australia in December after a string of poor performances in the past year.
With New Zealand’s victory over Pakistan and India’s loss to Australia on Sunday, India’s women’s cricket team found itself eliminated from the 2024 T20 World Cup, marking the first time since 2016 that they’ve failed to reach the semifinals.
A confident India will strive to take control of their destiny by securing yet another net-run-rate boosting victory when they face an injury-ravaged Australia in their must-win Women's T20 World Cup match on Sunday.
Sri Lanka won't be mere pushovers especially after their victory against India in the last Asia Cup final, said talented opener Shafali Verma who believes that the islanders are no longer solely dependent on their talismanic skipper Chamari Athapaththu.
Shafali Verma, the significant other of the blockbuster Indian opening pair, says her no-holds-barred approach goes well with Smriti Mandhana's elegance and both can "sense each others feelings just by our facial expressions" while batting.
The duo shared a 292-run partnership on the opening day of the one-off Test against South Africa in Chennai.
Australia Men will leave after the ongoing T20I series, India Men will fly out to South Africa, while England and Australia Women will come over. That, domestic cricket, the 2024 IPL auction, and we are done for the year. Here are 13 Indian cricket highlights of the year that made the headlines.
Shafali Verma's 67 and unbeaten knocks of 47 and 21 from Jemimah Rodrigues and Richa Ghosh, respectively, helped India.
The girl from Rohtak and Delhi Capitals' opener, impact player Verma's ruthless batsmanship is a sign of the new wave in Indian women's cricket, whose torchbearer was Harmanpreet Kaur.
American left-arm pace bowler Tara Norris grabbed a fifer for DC to decimate the Smriti Mandhana-led team.
Smriti, Shafali, Harmanpreet, and all-rounder Deepti Sharma are set to earn anywhere between Rs 1.25 to 2 crore from teams that successfully bid for them.
The Shafali Verma-led India thrashed England by seven wickets in Potchefstroom, South Africa in the final to claim the first-ever ICC U-19 Women's T20 World Cup.
Nineteen-year-old Shafali Verma became the first woman in history to lead her country to a cricket World Cup triumph, ending an agonising wait for a maiden women’s world title for Indian cricket.
Indian bowlers' tremendous bowling performance followed by Gongadi Trisha and Soumya Tiwari's knocks helped India defeat England by seven wickets in the ICC Women’s U-19 T20 World Cup 2023 at Senwes Park in Potchefstroom, South Africa. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced a reward of Rs 5 crore for the entire India squad and support staff.
At a time when the BCCI’s soon-to-be-launched Women’s Premier League has got the world talking about women’s cricket, the foremost figure in the spotlight would be Shafali Verma, a game-changer having injected a never-seen-before brand of big-hitting in Indian women’s cricket, and is the third woman ever to have led India to a World Cup final.
Questions over the fairness of India playing her in the world U-19 event – however legitimate her inclusion – have only underscored the pedigree she’s built in the international game.
There was Smriti Mandhana, opening the face of the bat to guide a well-pitched ball outside her off stump. Here was Shafali Verma, pulling a short one with a mighty swivel to the boundary.
CWG 2022 will feature 72 teams from 54 nations and 18 territories, competing across 19 disciplines, including three new sports: women’s T20 cricket, 3X3 basketball, and 3X3 wheelchair basketball.