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Mithali Raj named Indian ODI team skipper for Australia series

| @indiablooms | Feb 27, 2018, at 10:13 pm

New Delhi, Feb 27 (IBNS): India's star batsman Mithali Raj has been named the skipper of the national side which will face Australia in the Paytm ODI series from Mar 12.

Indian selectors have named a 15-member squad.

The three-match series that will be held in Vadodara is part of the ICC Women’s Championship (2017-2020).

The ODI series will be followed by the Paytm T20I tri-series and the squad for the same will be named later.

India Women's ODI squad is as below:

1. Mithali Raj (Captain)

2. Harmanpreet Kaur (vice-captain)

3. Smriti Mandhana

4. Punam Raut

5. Jemimah Rodrigues

6. Veda Krishnamurthy

7. Mona Meshram

8. Sushma Verma (wicket-keeper)

9. Ekta Bisht

10. Poonam Yadav

11. Rajeshwari Gayakwad

12. Shikha Pandey

13. Sukanya Parida

14. Pooja Vastrakar

15. Deepti Sharma


The matches will be played on Mar 12,15 and 18.

Image: BCCI website

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