Seam-bowling allrounder Kashvee Gautam is in line for a T20I debut after being included in India’s squad for the five-match T20I sequence in South Africa in April. Gautam has performed one Check and 6 ODIs, and was in motion in each longer codecs through the current tour of Australia, however she has not but performed a T20I.
Anushka Sharma has additionally acquired her maiden India name up. The 22-year-old offspin-bowling allrounder had impressed for Gujarat Giants in her first season of the WPL in 2025, scoring 177 runs, with 124 of them coming in boundaries. Anushka was then introduced onto the India A group for the Rising Stars Asia Cup final month and is now on the right track to make her first look at senior stage in worldwide cricket.
India’s selectors have additionally included Uma Chetry within the squad, ostensibly as back-up to common keeper Richa Ghosh.
Chetry has changed the 17-year-old G Kamalini, who has not performed a global recreation since her T20I debut within the dwelling sequence towards Sri Lanka in December. She was a part of the T20I squad that lately toured Australia, however didn’t function within the sequence that India received 2-1.
Left-arm spinner Vaishnavi Sharma, who performed all 5 T20Is towards Sri Lanka however remained on the bench by the Australia T20Is, has additionally been disregarded. Allrounder Amanjot Kaur, who endured a tricky time in Australia, scoring 3 and 1 in her two T20I appearances and conceding 30 runs in three overs, can also be out of the squad.
Gautam is one in all 4 seam choices in India’s squad alongside Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh and Kranti Gaud. Deepti Sharma, Shree Charani and Shreyanka Patil make up the spin assault with Vaishnavi out.
The South Africa tour will kick off in Durban, which hosts the primary two T20Is on April 17 and 19, earlier than continuing to Johannesburg for the third and fourth T20Is on April 22 and 25. Benoni will host the sequence finale on April 27.
India squad for T20Is vs South Africa
Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Smriti Mandhana (vice-capt), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh, Kranti Gaud, Sree Charani, Shreyanka Patil, Kashvee Gautam, Bharti Fulmali, Uma Chetry (wk), Anushka Sharma.
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