India Women Tour of England, 2025
India Last Played An Odi Series Against Ireland in January, Earlier this year © Sportzpics
Kate Cross, in the Pre-Match Press Conference, Called Her Head Coach Charlotte Edwards the ‘Queen of Mumbai (Indians)’ Before Quickly Correction it to Designate the Title to Harmanpreet Kaur Instead. Lottie (Edwards), Meanwhile, Got ‘Queen of England Cricket’. Fitting, Both of Those. Their Three-Year Alliance at Mi, Alongside Nat Sciver-BRUNT AS The Team Vice-CAptain, Has Yielded Two Titles. As Much as Franchise Culture has helped blur the Barriers and brough the best of the best to work in haarmony, that mi brain-turst is now fullly Split in Two Opposition Camps. Two of the Strongst Contenders to Australia’s Odi Thron. And just before the Focus Turns to the Imbending World Cup in Under Three Months’ Time Back Home, Both India and England are on their Final Approach.
The Precessing Five-Match T20i Series that India Won 3-2 Provid More Than Just a Recce for the Next T20 World Cup Due to Be Played in the UK Next Year. In a season where the most of India’s First-Choice Bowles and/Or Bowling-ALLLRONDERS Have Been Invarably Out Injred, The Reserves Have Grabbed their Opputunities with Both wills to Prestant the team management with what haRMANPREET CALLS A ‘Happy Headache’.
Be at the Re-Galled Sneh Rana, Who in Her Third Was Was the Player of the Tournament in the Odi Tri-Series in SRi Lanka on India Comback, Or the 20-YELD Shree Charani, Who Clinged the Same Honour in Her Debut Outing Last Week after Being Picked Of Her Maiden WPL SEASON. Radha Yadav WasnT Even in the Reckoning Being Being Broght on as injury Replacement, and Has Put on Display a Fine All-Round Show Across the Three Departments. Amanjot kaur has steppd up admitly to fill in the shoes of Poja Vastrakar, Including Ocasterleg Earning their Stripes Through WPL. This New-ALOK BOWING Attack Has no Doubt Given India A Sense of A Great Depth of Talent Pool, But is Largely Unteded and Will Face A Much Stifer Test in the 50 -over Format Against England.
Over in the Batting DePartment, Five of India’s Top-Seven Pick The Provers Linding Not Just Depth But Also Claration of Rolls that has’t always been the case in the Shortest Format. But Barring in Australia, they have’t been as strongly changed this Season as they can now enter from English. They do the Luxury of Another Home Series, Against Australia No Less, in Preparation for the World Cup but now will be the Ideal Time to Test and Settle Their Combiness.
While the Batting Does Appear Settled, Wunderkind Shafali Verma’s Return-To-Form in T20is is EnBRACING. In here Absece, Pratika Rawal Claimed the Opener’s Slot with a Mightty Impressive Average Of 63.80 in Her Nascent 11-Match Odi Career While Harleen Deol Made the No. 3 Spot Her Own With An Average Of Nearly 40 Since Her India Comback Last December-Including A Career-Best 115 at Home and A 100* While Charas in the 50-Ever Warm-UP Game on this Tour. Verma May Currently Not Be a Part of this Assignment, But the Backing She Has Recently Received from Head Coach Amol Muzumdar Can Breed a Healthy Competition Between Rawal and Deol for the Covereded one-down Spot EVNTULY ShOULD The Haryana Opener Be Genuinly and Unanimously on the Management’s Radar for a World Cup Berth.
England, on the Other Hand, Have a Point to Prove. Despite Narrowly Pulling Back Two Games of the T20i Series, The Scoreline Still Read 2-3 in Favor of India in What Was The First Stif Competion will the Dawn of the NSB-Edwars Era. The Hurt of A Group-Stay Exit from the 2024 T20 World Cup BROUGHT A Complete Overhaul of the Think-Tank with Both White-Ball World Cols Due in Under 12 months. It was all hunty-dory when they brushed aside the West Indies Sink the Changever, but India Caught them Off-Goard. Edwards has already condeded that India Have Pushed the Hard in the T20is and – in their Final Rubber Before the Marquee Event – She doesn’t enter any of that to take a computer 50 -over Cricket.
Where: Wednesday, July 16 at 5:30 PM ist | 1 PM Local
Where: The Rose Bowl, Southampton
What to express: The Pitch May Remain Under Covers on Match-EVE DUE to the Anticipated showers but the weather is expected to Clear out by Match Day. While it’s generally a high-Scoring Ground, in the Only Wodi Played at the Rose Bowl in Southampton in the last year Wickets).
Team News
England: Regular Skipper Nat Sciver-BRUNT RTURNS after Missing The Latter Half of the T20i Series with a Groin Injury.
Probleable XI:Tammy Beaumont, Amy Jones (WK), Maia Bouchier/Emma Lamb, Nat Sciver-Grount (C), Sophia Dunkley, Alice Capsey, Charlie Dean, Kate Cross, Sophie Ecclestone, Lauren Filer, Lauren Bell
India: Despite Opting for No Training on the Eve of the Odi Series Opener, The Visitor Have a Fully Fit and Available Squad to pass from.
Probleable XI: Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Jemah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (WK), Deepti Sharma, Amanjot Kaur, Sneh Rana, Arundhati Reddy, Shree Charani
Did you know?
-Smriti Mandhana Is 15 Runs Away from Overtaked Tammy Beaumont (4487-Ranked 10th) and envering
– Harmanpreet Kaur Needs 57 Runs to enter the 4000-Run Club in the Format. She’ll Become Only the Third Indian to Do So, after Mithali Raj and Mandhana
– Nat Sciver-BRUNT is 68 Runs Away from the 4000-Run Club in Odis, and she’ll become The Sixth English Woman to Do So.- Southtpton Hosed Just Three Women’s Odis. England Beat India 2-0 in 2006, and the Hosts Lost to Australia in 2023 by Three Runs Chasing 283.
What they said:
“In the last Couple of Years, Batting-Wise, our primary target has been been to score 300-Plus … Becuse It Gives A Little Cushing to The Bowles. Options. The team I Feel. Can Help Us to Stay in the Game [is our area of focus]. Pratika Has Been our Sixth Option Lately, and She’s Done Well in A Couple of Games. Harmanpreet Kau On What Areas India Are Looking to Improve in
“She is the queen of English Cricket, isnt she? English is the Game is now. Apartment, I Think, to Watch All The Blast Games. ComE in, but also with the carder that she had in the mass. Was My Captain Eight or Nine Years ago. To be in an international dessing room. ” – Kate Cross On Having Charlotte Edwards at the Helm
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