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The Board of Control for Cricket in India today announced a 15-member Indian women team, including Odisha allrounder Swagatika Rath for the tour of England next month. Indian team will play one Test Match (4 days), three ODIs and two warm-up games during the tour, starting on August 7.
Swagatika, the third international woman cricketer of Odisha, has so far played three women’s One-day Internationals and two T20 Internationals, scoring a total of 72 runs and bagging three wickets.
Swagatika also has the credit of playing 11 women’s List A and 12 women’s T20 matches for Odisha. She achieved an unique feat by bagging all 10 wickets in Jajpur’s inter-district match against Kalahandi at Cuttack on April 26, 2012.
TEAM INDIA: Mithali Raj (Captain), Karuna Jain (Vice-captain), Smriti Mandhana, M D Thirushkamini, Punam Raut, Harmanpreet Kaur, Jhulan Goswami, Niranjana N, Shubhlakshmi Sharma, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Ekta Bisht, Poonam Yadav, Swagathika Rath, Vanitha V R, Sushma Verma.
Support staff: Sudha Shah (Coach), Cavatina Patel (Manager), Neha Karnik (Physio), Kavita Pandya (Trainer), Aarti Nalge (Video Analyst), Devieka Sathe (Assistant coach).
TOUR ITINERARY:
August 7 & 8: Two-day warm-up game at Loughborough, Haslegrave
August 13 & 16: Four-day Test match at Wormsley CG
August 19: One-day (50 overs) warm-up game at Harrogate CC
August 21: 1st ODI at Scarborough CC
August 23: 2nd ODI at Scarborough CC
August 25: 3rd ODI at Lords CG
