NZC announce changes in New Zealand-India women's ODIs schedule

India women are currently in New Zealand to play six white-ball games against the host nation for the roadmap to Women’s World Cup 2022. Ahead of the showpiece event, which is set to begin on March 4, NZC have announced a few changes in the ODIs of the series. It has to be noted that it was only last week that all matches moved to John Davies Oval, Queensland, owing to COVID-19 restrictions.

In the later turn, ODIs have been tweaked where the opening game will be played on the 12^th of February instead of the earlier date 11^th. The second and third games of the series will get underway on 15^th and 18^th February in place of 14^th and 16^th as scheduled earlier. The last two games will take place as per the initial schedule only. The venue will remain the same for all the games and a one-off T20I will take place as proposed earlier.

The T20I is scheduled to commence at 1 PM local time whereas ODI will begin at 11 AM. During India’s last tour back in 2019, India bagged the ODI series but lost the T20Is and this time around, both teams will be keen to set the right tone ahead of the WC.

 India squad for one-off T20I: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Sneh Rana, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh Thakur, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, S. Meghana, Simran Dil Bahadur.

India squad for ODIs: Mithali Raj (c), Harmanpreet Kaur (vc), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Sneh Rana, Jhulan Goswami, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh Thakur, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav, S. Meghana, Ekta Bisht, Simran Dil Bahadur.

New Zealand squad: Sophie Devine (c), Amy Satterthwaite, Suzie Bates, Lauren Down, Maddy Green, Brooke Halliday, Hayley Jensen, Fran Jonas, Jess Kerr, Amelia Kerr, Frances Mackay, Rosemary Mair, Katey Martin, Hannah Rowe, Lea Tahuhu

Changed Fixtures

9 February: 1st T20I

12 February: 1st ODI

15 February: 2nd ODI

18 February: 3rd ODI

22 February: 4th ODI

24 February: 5th ODI