Prime-order batter Pratika Rawal has been included in India’s girls’s cricket squad for the 2026 Asian Video games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, as a alternative for injured Jemimah Rodrigues.Jemimah continues to get better from a hamstring harm she suffered whereas taking part in for Southern Courageous in The Hundred on August 3. The harm had already dominated her out of the continuing Ladies’s Asia Cup in Dubai and the Asian Video games.
Rawal will get Asian Video games call-up
Rawal was initially named as Jemimah’s alternative just for the Asia Cup, with no official phrase on the time on who would take her place within the Asian Video games squad. Nevertheless, a BCCI supply confirmed on Wednesday that Rawal’s title was already included within the 15-member squad submitted for the Asian Video games, which means she’s going to journey to Japan as Jemimah’s alternative.The 17-year-old made her T20I debut throughout the ongoing Asia Cup and has been used at No. 3 by the Indian workforce administration. She has scored 22, 10 and 4 in her three league-stage appearances to this point.
A protracted street again for Rawal
Rawal’s return to worldwide cricket got here after a prolonged harm layoff. She had not performed aggressive T20 cricket since November 2024 earlier than her Asia Cup call-up and was additionally compelled to overlook the 2026 Ladies’s Premier League after an ankle harm suffered throughout the 2025 Ladies’s ODI World Cup. She had been making ready to affix Warwickshire for the One Day Cup in England when the India name got here. UP Warriorz had purchased her for Rs 50 lakh on the WPL public sale final 12 months, however she couldn’t characteristic within the 2026 season.
India head to Japan as defending champions
India will enter the ladies’s cricket competitors on the Asian Video games as defending champions after beating Sri Lanka by 19 runs within the last of the earlier version in Hangzhou. The eight-team competitors is scheduled to run from September 17 to 22, with India joined by Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and China.India’s Asian Video games squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shafali Verma, Pratika Rawal, Bharti Fulmali, Richa Ghosh (WK), G Kamalini (WK), Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Prema Rawat, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Renuka Singh, N Sree Charani and Nandni Sharma.