Sukanya Parida

Bengal women did what their men’s counterpart failed as they made the semifinals of the Senior Women’s Twenty20 meet getting past Rajasthan by 18 runs in the quarterfinals at Alur, Karnataka, on Tuesday.

Mithali Raj, Deepti Sharma and Veda Krishnamurthy will lead the India Blue, India Red and India Green teams respectively at the Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy to be held in Alur, Karnataka from August 14 to 21.

Soni Yadav will replace Goswami while Mansi Joshi has been named as replacement for Parida. The BCCI had earlier informed that Mona Meshram had replaced Smriti Mandhana, who had sustained an injury during the Women's Big Bash in Australia.

Harmanpreet Kaur was on Saturday named the new captain of the Indian women's T20 team replacing veteran Mithali Raj, who has retained her ODI captaincy. Mithali is however a part of the T20 squad led by Harmanpreet.

Mithali Raj will lead a 15-member Indian women's team in the three-match ODI series against Australia to be held at Vadodara from March 12-18, the BCCI said on Tuesday.

Mumbai teenager Jemima Rodrigues, who recently hit a double hundred in BCCI U-19 women's meet has been drafted into India A team's limited overs home series against Bangladesh.

Mithali Raj will lead a 14-member Indian squad to the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifiers to be held in Colombo from February 3-21.

The All-India Women's Selection Committee has on Monday named a 15-member India squad for the upcoming three-match ODI series against England. All the matches of the series will be played in Nagpur.

India will have to rectify their shortcomings when they face an ascending Australia on Thursday in a must-win second game of the three-match series, which is part of the ICC Women's ODI Championship.

High on confidence after the triumph in South Africa, Indian women's cricket team will be aiming to put up another stellar show against Australia in the three-match ODI series beginning on Monday.

The series already lost, India women would look to salvage some pride when they take on mighty Australia in the third and final game of the series, a part of the ICC Women ODI Championship on Sunday.

Mithali Raj will be leading the Indian women's cricket team in the ICC World Cup qualifier scheduled to be held in Colombo from February 7-21.