BUILDING UP TO THE BIG EVENT
Choice of venue – Vizag – is strategic as India play two World Cup games there. © BCCI
India Women’s World Cup 2025 squad is set to assemble in Visakhapatnam for a preparatory camp ahead of the three-match ODI series against Australia in the lead up to the mega event. Cricbuzz understands the week-long camp will kick off on August 25, with the players asked to report in a day prior.
Besides the 15-member squad selected for the World Cup, the camp will also include the six players officially announced as stand-bys. That includes Sayali Satghare, who features in the team announced for the Australia ODIs, but will make way for allrounder Amanjot Kaur’ return in the World Cup 15.
The camp could likely also involve the India A squad – majority of which is currently engaged in an unofficial Test against Australia A – at a later stage. The India A team is due to take on New Zealand in Bengaluru’s Centre of Excellent (CoE) in their first official World Cup warm-up game. Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and South Africa will be based out of co-host city Colombo initially, and will each play both of their warm-up games there.
Radha Yadav, currently leading India A in the red-ball game in Brisbane, is expected to link up directly upon arrival, flying out after the game concludes on August 24.
The choice of venue for this camp is a strategic move given that India are due to take on two opponents – South Africa on October 9 and Australia on October 12 – at the ACA-VDCA Stadium in Vizag in the round-robin phase of the home World Cup. The Indian Women’s team last played an ODI in Vizag all the way back in 2014, of which the World Cup-bound players are Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Sneh Rana. Besides Vizag, Guwahati, Indore and DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai are other Indian cities hosting the eight-team global event.
Cricbuzz understands a couple of intra-squad games under lights are also expected before the team disperses for a short break ahead of the home series against Australia that kicks off on September 14 in Mullanpur.
This camp will focus mainly on skills and is an extension of an earlier one in August wherein a larger group of India probables were put through their paces at the BCCI CoE. The 10-day camp in Bengaluru was focussed on fitness, fielding and match simulations, and also saw a day-night intra-squad game, post which the World Cup 15 was announced.
India squad for Australia ODIs: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Renuka Singh Thakur, Arundhati Reddy, Richa Ghosh (wk), Kranti Gaud, Sayali Satghare, Radha Yadav, Sree Charani, Yastika Bhatia (wk), Sneh Rana
Standby players:Tejal Hasabnis, Prema Rawat, Priya Mishra
India’s squad for ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Renuka Singh Thakur, Arundhati Reddy, Richa Ghosh (wk), Kranti Gaud, Amanjot Kaur, Radha Yadav, Sree Charani, Yastika Bhatia (wk), Sneh Rana
Standby players: Tejal Hasabnis, Prema Rawat, Priya Mishra, Uma Chetry (wk), Minnu Mani, Sayali Satghare
India A squad for World Cup warm-up: Minnu Mani (C), Dhara Gujjar, Shafali Verma, Tejal Hasabnis, Vrinda Dinesh, Uma Chetry (WK), Nandini Kashyap (WK), Tanushree Sarkar, Tanuja Kanwer, Titas Sadhu, Sayali Satghare, Saima Thakor, Prema Rawat, Priya Mishra, Raghvi Bist
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