India Women to face Australia of their first-ever pink-ball Test match this 12 months: Jay Shah

BCCI secretary Jay Shah on Thursday introduced that India Women will play of their first-ever pink-ball Day-Night Test in Australia later this 12 months.The ladies’s cricket staff is presently gearing up for the England tour, the place they’ll play a Test match, 3 ODIs and as many T20I matches. The gamers from the staff have began to assemble in Mumbai to quarantine themselves earlier than boarding the flight for the all-important tour.”Taking forward our commitment towards women’s cricket, I am extremely pleased to announce that Team India @BCCIwomen will play in their first-ever pink ball day-night Test later this year in Australia,” Shah tweeted.Taking ahead our dedication in direction of ladies’s cricket, I’m extraordinarily happy to announce that Team India @BCCIwomen will play of their first-ever pink ball day-night Test later this 12 months in Australia.— Jay Shah (@JayShah) May 20, 2021
JUST IN: India Women to play in a pink-ball day-night Test in Australia later this 12 months, pronounces BCCI Secretary Jay Shah. pic.twitter.com/x8S4HqTlNG— ICC (@ICC) May 20, 2021
Overall, this would be the second Day-Night Test within the historical past of ladies’s cricket. The first one was performed between England and Australia in Sydney in 2017.The Test match will probably be Mithali Raj-led facet’s first in Australia for the reason that Adelaide Test in 2006. Australia and India have performed 9 Tests, with Australia profitable 4 of them and the opposite 5 being drawn. Also, India Women will play 2 Test matches in a single 12 months for the primary time after 2014.Bristol Test match versus England beginning June 16, will probably be their first within the format since 2014. England Women final performed a Test match in the course of the Ashes 2019.Due to coronavirus pandemic, India Women returned to motion for the primary time after the ultimate of the Women’s T20 World Cup in Melbourne on March 8 and performed 5 ODIs and three T20Is in opposition to South Africa Women from March 7 to March 23 in Lucknow this 12 months. They misplaced the ODI sequence 1-4 and T20I sequence 1-2 in opposition to South Africa Women in Lucknow.Before the South Africa house sequence, India gamers had featured within the 4-match Women’s T20 Challenge which was held alongside the Indian Premier League 2020 play-offs within the UAE. Mithali Raj, Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur lead 3 groups as they performed their matches in Sharjah.India’s Senior Women squad for Test & ODI vs England : 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 vs England: 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, Simaran Dil Bahadur.India Women’s tour of England full schedule:June 16-19 Test match Bristol County GroundJune 27 1st ODI Bristol County GroundJune 30 2nd ODI The Cooper Associates County Ground, TauntonJuly 3 third ODI New Road, WorcesterJuly 9 1st T20I The County Ground, NorthamptonJuly 11 2nd T20I The 1st Central County Ground, HoveJuly 15 third T20I The Cloudfm County Ground, Chelmsford