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India's World Cup winning prima Pratika Rawal on with left-arm spinner Vaishnavi Sharma and seamer Kranti Gaud received their maiden long-format call-ups for the one-off Test against Australia to beryllium held astatine Perth from March 6 to 9.
The 15-member squad volition beryllium led by Harmanpreet Kaur, and the Test volition travel the achromatic shot format matches (3 T20Is, 3 ODIs), opening from February 15.
Pratika’s inclusion was a formality aft her stirring efforts successful the ODIs, 1,110 runs from 24 matches astatine an mean of 50.45 with 2 hundreds and 7 fifties.
It besides meant that the opening batter had sufficiently recovered from her ankle wounded that forced her to beryllium retired of past year’s women’s ODI World Cup semifinal and final.
However, the 25-year-old is not a portion of India’s achromatic shot travel to Australia.
Vaishnavi, who made an content during India’s U-19 World Cup triumph successful aboriginal 2025, made her elder squad debut successful December during the location T20I bid against Sri Lanka.
The 20-year-old left-arm spinner has truthful acold played 5 T20Is.
Pacer Kranti excessively has made her India debut past twelvemonth and has truthful acold played 15 ODIs and 4 T20Is and was peculiarly awesome successful the 50-over format, taking 23 wickets.
Satghare, the 25-year-old Mumbai pacer, has played 3 ODIs against Ireland successful January 2025, and her inclusion meant that seasoned Arundhati Reddy did not get a look in.
Meanwhile, young wicket-keeper G Kamalini has been ruled retired of India's Australia circuit with an wounded and the selectors person named Uma Chetry arsenic her replacement successful India's T20Is and ODI squads.
Anushka Sharma successful the India A squad
The selectors besides picked India A squad for ACC Rising Star Asia Cup, and it volition beryllium led by experienced left-arm spinner Radha Yadav. Talented batter Anushka Sharma has been named successful the squad for her accordant performances.
The inaugural variation of the tourney is scheduled to beryllium played successful Thailand betwixt February 13 and 22.
India volition play the UAE (February 13), Pakistan A (February 15) and Nepal (February 17) successful the event.
India Test squad
Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Varma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Amanjot Kaur, Richa Ghosh (WK), Uma Chetry (WK), Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Deepti Sharma, Renuka Thakur, Sneh Rana, Kranti Gaud, Vaishnavi Sharma, Sayali Satghare.
India A squad for ACC Rising Star Asia Cup
Humairaa Kaazi, Vrinda Dinesh, Anushka Sharma, Deeya Yadav (subject to fitness), Tejal Hasabnis, Nandani Kashyap (WK), Mamta M (WK), (subject to fitness), Radha Yadav (C), Sonia Mendhiya, Minnu Mani, Tanuja Kanwer, Prema Rawat, Saima Thakor, Jintamani Kalita, Nandani Sharma.
