India name full-strength squad for Australia A series

Australia A are in India for a series of three one-dayers and three T20s. The 50-over games are done, and the visitors have won all of them, by 91 runs, four wickets, and five wickets respectively.

Now, it’s over to the 20-over games, and the Australians are likely to find the competition much tougher, what with the Indians naming the same set of 15 players who will play the World T20 next month in the Caribbean for the three games.

The Harmanpreet Kaur-led Indians play their World T20 warm-up games against the Windies and England on 4 November and 7 November ahead of the first fixture of the main event on 9 November.

But they don’t have any other games to get into the groove, following the cancellation of a three-match series against the Windies, the tournament hosts and defending champions.

India A squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana, Mithali Raj, Jemimah Rodrigues, Veda Krishnamurthy, Deepti Sharma, Tanya Bhatia (wk), Poonam Yadav, Radha Yadav, Anuja Patil, Ekta Bisht, D Hemalatha, Mansi Joshi, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy

**Australia A squad:**Molly Strano (c), Samantha Bates, Maitlan Brown, Lauren Cheatle, Piepa Cleary, Josephine Dooley, Heather Graham, Sammy Jo Johnson, Tahlia McGrath, Chloe Piparo, Georgia Redmayne, Naomi Stalenberg, Belinda Vakarewa, Amanda-Jade Wellington

**Fixtures (all matches at Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai)**22 October: First T20
24 October: Second T20
26 October: Third T20