{"id":3031,"date":"2022-01-06T11:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=177796"},"modified":"2022-01-06T11:34:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:04:59","slug":"mithali-raj-to-lead-the-team-as-bcci-announces-womens-world-cup-2022-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/mithali-raj-to-lead-the-team-as-bcci-announces-womens-world-cup-2022-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Mithali Raj to lead the team as BCCI announces women\u2019s World Cup 2022 squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has presented a squad list of the Indian women\u2019s cricket team for the 2022 World Cup on Thursday. BCCI Women, which is an official Twitter account of the Indian women\u2019s cricket team posted the team via Tweet on Thursday morning. BCCI has kept plenty of regular players in the squad as Shafali Verma, Sneh Rana, Deepti, etc have retained their spot. But there are some controversies arising as some expected players were dropped from the World Cup 2022 squad by BCCI. BCCI Women has not only announced the team for the World Cup but also for their upcoming New Zealand series.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 NEWS \ud83d\udea8: India Women\u2019s squad for ICC Women\u2019s World Cup 2022 and New Zealand series announced. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CWC22?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CWC22<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NZvIND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NZvIND<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>More Details \ud83d\udd3d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qdI6A8NBSH\">https:\/\/t.co\/qdI6A8NBSH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rOZ8X7yRbV\">pic.twitter.com\/rOZ8X7yRbV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCIWomen\/status\/1478947609788096514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Experienced Indian batter Mithali Raj has been named as the captain and she will lead the team in the World Cup as well as in the ODI series against New Zealand. Harmanpreet Kaur, who is been named vice-captain in ODI\u2019s and World Cup, is the captain of the Indian team for the one-off Twenty 20 International game against New Zealand. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has also announced the 16-member squad for this one-off Twenty 20 International game against the Kiwis along with the 15-member squad for ODI and World Cup 2022. However, the biggest surprise for the Indian fans is that Jemimah Rodrigues, the Indian batter who was in great form lately dropped from the squad which means she won\u2019t be available to play against New Zealand and also won\u2019t feature in World Cup 2022 as well. Shikha Pandey was another name that is been missing from the squad.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> squad for one-off T20I against New Zealand: <\/p>\n<p>Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali, Yastika, Deepti, Richa (WK), Sneh Rana, Pooja, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh Thakur, Taniya (WK), Rajeshwari, Poonam, Ekta, S. Meghna, Simran Dil Bahadur<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NZvIND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NZvIND<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCIWomen\/status\/1478945863800033281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Indian women\u2019s cricket team\u2019s 15-member squad for ODI against New Zealand and World Cup 2022 are as follows: Mithali Raj (Captain), Harmanpreet Kaur (vice-captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wicket-keeper), Sneh Rana, Jhulan Goswami, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh Thakur, Taniya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav.<\/p>\n<p>Indian women\u2019s cricket team\u2019s 16-member squad for a T20I game against New Zealand are as follows:\u00a0 \u00a0 Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wicket-keeper), Sneh Rana, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh Thakur, Taniya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, S. Meghna, Simran Dil Bahadur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCCI on Thursday has announced the women\u2019s cricket team squad for World Cup 2022. There is a lot of talk on the squad as many of the regular players are dropped from the squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":26113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[572,963,1245,1553,2021,1534],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-deepti-sharma","tag-harmanpreet-kaur","tag-indian-womens-cricket-team","tag-jhulan-goswami","tag-mithali-raj-c","tag-shafali-verma"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}