Women’s World Cup: Shefali and Renuka made difficulty before team selection, Amanjot’s fitness too …

Mumbai. The Indian team will be selected on Tuesday for the Women’s ODI World Cup. India’s recent victory has boosted confidence but it will not be easy for the Women’s Selection Committee headed by Neetu David to choose the World Cup team. Especially Shefali Verma’s form and fast bowler Renuka Thakur’s fitness selectors will increase the difficulties.

The Women’s ODI World Cup will be played from 30 September. 8 teams will participate in it. All the matches in Pakistan will be played in Colombo. India will host all other matches of the World Cup and will be eyeing for winning the global trophy for the first time. Harmanpreet Kaur’s team will enter the World Cup with great confidence after defeating England in both limited overs series and winning the ODI tri -series against Sri Lanka and South Africa in April. Before the tournament, India will host Australia for the three ODI series to improve its preparations.

The selectors may take some extra time to decide whether Shefali Verma is included in the stable batting order or not that will try to enhance their skills against the Australian team. Since returning to the team during the series against England, Shefali has scored 3, 47, 31 and 75 runs while only 3, 3 and 41 runs against Australia A.

Smriti Mandhana has formed a successful pairing with Pritaka Rawal in the top order while Jemima Rodrigues, Harleen Deol and captain Harmanpreet provide adequate strength to the middle order. But will the selectors try to make it more aggressive by bringing Shefali in the team? This is yet to be seen and the officers will also assess Renuka’s fitness who did not go on a tour of England due to injury.

Renuka has been away from cricket since March but the state of recovering and work burden will be discussed adequately as he is able to take the initial wicket with the new ball. If she remains fit, the ODI against Australia will be an ideal platform for this right -handed fast bowler and the team management and selectors will have a chance to see if they are ready to handle the burden of being the main fast bowler in the domestic World Cup.

Richa Ghosh will remain the wicketkeeper of the first choice while Yastika Bhatia may be effective backup. With the tournament returning to the subcontinent, there is no doubt that spinners will be the subject of discussion and India have many options in the form of Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana and Radha Yadav which have contributed to the success of the team in recent times. Left -handed young spinner N Shri Charani also performed strongly in T20 Internationals against England, giving India’s spin invasion another edge and could become another subject of discussion for the selectors.