India Women’s squad for one-off England Test announced, injured Amanjot Kaur misses out

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has announced the squad for the Indian Women‘s one-off Test against England, set to be played at Lord’s between July 10 and 13. The Test squad for the England tour comes shortly after the selection committee unveiled the squad for the upcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026.

India’s tour of England has been divided into two phases owing to the World Cup, which gets underway on June 12. The three T20Is will be played from May 28 to June 2, prior to the start of the tournament. The one-off Test is scheduled to be played on July 10, five days after the final of the T20 World Cup.

Harmanpreet Kaur is set to lead the side, deputised by Smriti Mandhana. The squad has three changes from the one for the Test against Australia. Vaishnavi Sharma, Uma Chetry and Amanjot Kaur have made way for Nandani Sharma, Yastika Bhatia and Sree Charani.

For the unversed, wicketkeeper-batter Yastika returns to the squad after a long injury layoff and has also been selected as the spare keeper in the side for the T20 World Cup. Nandani also received her maiden call-up to the T20I squad for the England series and the T20 World Cup. 

Sneh Rana, Harleen Deol and Pratika Rawal return to the squad after missing out on the squad for the T20 World Cup. The three players featured in the squad in the one-off Test against Australia in Perth on March 6, while Rana and Rawal took the field in the encounter.

India’s squad for the Test against England: 

Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Varma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Pratika Rawal, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (WK), Sree Charani, Yastika Bhatia (WK), Nandani Sharma, Harleen Deol, Renuka Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Sayali Satghare, Sneh Rana

More to follow!