Harmanpreet has been impressed with Vaishnavi and Kamalini and believes the time is right to try and blood some younger players in India’s squad with the next edition of the T20 World Cup less than six months away.
“Our end goal is the next T20 World Cup in next six months and before that we want to play a lot of T20 cricket,” Harmanpreet said.
“From tomorrow it’s going to start and some new players in the team, it’s the right time to give them a fair chance to understand how we have to go in the next World Cup. So yeah, it’s a very important series for all of us and we just want to play with free mindset and play how we have been playing T20 cricket from last couple of years.”
India squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Harleen Deol, Amanjot Kaur, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Renuka Singh, Richa Ghosh (wk), G Kamalini (wk), Sree Charani, Vaishnavi Sharma
Sri Lanka squad: Chamari Athapaththu (c), Hasini Perera, Vishmi Gunaratne, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Nilakshika De Silva, Kavisha Dilhari, Imesha Dulani, Kaushini Nuthyangana, Malsha Shehani, Inoka Ranaweera, Shashini Gimhani, Nimesha Madushani, Kawya Kavindi, Rashmika Sewwandi, Malki Madara
Series schedule:
First T20I: December 21, Visakhapatnam
Second T20I: December 23, Visakhapatnam
Third T20I: December 26, Thiruvananthapuram
Fourth T20I: December 28, Thiruvananthapuram
Fifth T20I: December 30, Thiruvananthapuram
