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#Nandni #Sharma #pacer #received #maiden #India #callup #Womens #T20 #World #Cup">Who is Nandni Sharma, the pacer who has received maiden India call-up for Women’s T20 World Cup 2026?
Pacer Nandni Sharma received her maiden national call-up as BCCI announced India’s squad for Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 on Saturday.
The tournament will be held in England and Wales from June 12 to July 5.
Who is Nandni Sharma?
Nandni Sharma is a 24-year-old right-arm pacer from Chandigarh. Delhi Capitals picked for Rs 20 lakh during the Women’s Premier League (WPL) auction ahead of the 2026 season.
READ | India squad for Women’s T20 World Cup
She justified DC’s decision as she recorded a five-wicket haul, including a hat-trick, in her second game against Gujarat Giants. She became the second Indian to pick a hat-trick, and the first uncapped player to have a five-wicket haul in the tournament’s history.
She finished the season as the joint-highest wicket-taker along with Giants’ Sophie Devine, who also took 17 wickets.
As a result of her performances, she was included in the India A squad for the ACC Women’s Asia Cup Rising Stars held in Thailand where she played a solitary game against the UAE.
Published on May 02, 2026
Pacer Nandni Sharma received her maiden national call-up as BCCI announced India’s squad for Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 on Saturday.
The tournament will be held in England and Wales from June 12 to July 5.
Who is Nandni Sharma?
Nandni Sharma is a 24-year-old right-arm pacer from Chandigarh. Delhi Capitals picked for Rs 20 lakh during the Women’s Premier League (WPL) auction ahead of the 2026 season.
READ | India squad for Women’s T20 World Cup
She justified DC’s decision as she recorded a five-wicket haul, including a hat-trick, in her second game against Gujarat Giants. She became the second Indian to pick a hat-trick, and the first uncapped player to have a five-wicket haul in the tournament’s history.
She finished the season as the joint-highest wicket-taker along with Giants’ Sophie Devine, who also took 17 wickets.
As a result of her performances, she was included in the India A squad for the ACC Women’s Asia Cup Rising Stars held in Thailand where she played a solitary game against the UAE.
Published on May 02, 2026
Pacer Nandni Sharma received her maiden national call-up as BCCI announced India’s squad for Women’s…
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#Womens #T20 #World #Cup #India #squad">Women’s T20 World Cup 2026: India to name squad on May 2
India will name its squad for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup — to be held from June 12 to July 5 — on Saturday, with Amita Sharma-chaired selection committee facing its toughest test so far.
It will be Sharma’s first World Cup call since taking over the reins, and it comes at an interesting juncture. India enters the tournament as reigning ODI World Cup champion, having ended a long wait for a global title at home last November. But in the shortest format, the trajectory has been less convincing.
India failed to make the semifinals in the 2024 edition, and T20Is have remained a work in progress in the post-pandemic phase. The recent results reflect that inconsistency.
READ | South Africa series exposes India’s familiar squad-selection woes ahead of T20 World Cup
Since the ODI triumph, India swept Sri Lanka 5-0 at home in December, followed it up with a 2-1 series win in Australia earlier this year, but then slipped to a 1-4 defeat in South Africa last month.
That South Africa tour could prove particularly influential. The team management used the series to experiment extensively, handing opportunities to several untested players and even resting vice-captain Smriti Mandhana for the final two T20Is.
The question now is how much of that experimentation translates into World Cup selection. Young prospects like Anushka Sharma, the promising top-order batter from Madhya Pradesh, and Vaishnavi Sharma have pushed their cases during the recent outings. Considering swinging conditions in England, pace-bowling allrounder Bharti Fulmali was also recalled in South Africa after a long time.
Whether the selectors back youth or fall back on experience for a global event will be closely watched.
The meeting will not be limited to the World Cup squad alone. The committee is also set to pick teams for the upcoming home assignments against England — a three-match T20I series and a one-off Test — as well as the India A squads for the three one-dayers and three T20Is against England A.
Published on May 01, 2026
India will name its squad for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup — to be held from June 12 to July 5 — on Saturday, with Amita Sharma-chaired selection committee facing its toughest test so far.
It will be Sharma’s first World Cup call since taking over the reins, and it comes at an interesting juncture. India enters the tournament as reigning ODI World Cup champion, having ended a long wait for a global title at home last November. But in the shortest format, the trajectory has been less convincing.
India failed to make the semifinals in the 2024 edition, and T20Is have remained a work in progress in the post-pandemic phase. The recent results reflect that inconsistency.
READ | South Africa series exposes India’s familiar squad-selection woes ahead of T20 World Cup
Since the ODI triumph, India swept Sri Lanka 5-0 at home in December, followed it up with a 2-1 series win in Australia earlier this year, but then slipped to a 1-4 defeat in South Africa last month.
That South Africa tour could prove particularly influential. The team management used the series to experiment extensively, handing opportunities to several untested players and even resting vice-captain Smriti Mandhana for the final two T20Is.
The question now is how much of that experimentation translates into World Cup selection. Young prospects like Anushka Sharma, the promising top-order batter from Madhya Pradesh, and Vaishnavi Sharma have pushed their cases during the recent outings. Considering swinging conditions in England, pace-bowling allrounder Bharti Fulmali was also recalled in South Africa after a long time.
Whether the selectors back youth or fall back on experience for a global event will be closely watched.
The meeting will not be limited to the World Cup squad alone. The committee is also set to pick teams for the upcoming home assignments against England — a three-match T20I series and a one-off Test — as well as the India A squads for the three one-dayers and three T20Is against England A.
Published on May 01, 2026
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#Maiden #T20I #fifer #Deepti #Sharma #India #manages #14run #win #South #Africa">Maiden T20I fifer for Deepti Sharma as India manages 14-run win over South Africa
Seasoned Deepti Sharma produced a stirring all-round effort, including her maiden fifer in the shortest format, to inspire India’s 14-run win over South Africa in the fourth women’s T20I here on Saturday.
South Africa had already taken an unassailable 3-0 lead coming into this match, and appeared all set to extend the run after restricting India to 185 for five.
But Deepti (5/19), who played a big role in taking India past the 180-run mark with a composed unbeaten 36, grabbed key wickets in the middle phase to impede SA’s run, and limit them to 171 for nine.
Deepti (36 not out, 26 balls) and Richa Ghosh (34 not out, 18 balls) added 65 runs for the sixth wicket to give India a competitive total to fight with.
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X/BCCI WOMEN
Deepti (36 not out, 26 balls) and Richa Ghosh (34 not out, 18 balls) added 65 runs for the sixth wicket to give India a competitive total to fight with.
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X/BCCI WOMEN
South Africa raised the challenge through Sune Luus (40) and Tazmine Brits (30), who added 54 runs for the second wicket. But once Deepti castled Luus, India were all over the home side like a bad rash.
Luus was seriously threatening to go big after skipper Laura Wolvaardt was earlier bowled by pacer Kranti Goud.
Apart from Luus, off-spinner Deepti also jettisoned Annerie Dercksen, big-hitting Kayla Reyneke, Tumi Sekhu and Ayabonga Khaka to break SA’s batting unit.
Earlier, India batters failed to build on their starts against a disciplined set of SA bowlers, posting a slightly below par 185 for five.
After being sent in to bat, India started off on a shaky note, losing Shafali Verma to Eliz Marx while Anushka Sharma, who came in for rested Smriti Mandhana, fell for 23.
India were 47 for two at the end of the Power Play segment, and needed to move on without losing further damage.
Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (22) and Jemimah Rodrigues (43) did just that, adding 55 runs for the third wicket in little over six overs.
Rodrigues was impressive, in particular, while smashing spinner Nonkhu Mlaba for 24 runs in the 11th over through a sequence of runs which read 4, 2, 6, 6, 2, 4.
The two successive sixes straight over the bowler’s head were a treat to watch.
But just as India were gaining some momentum, Rodrigues, who was dropped on 18, failed to connect a sweep off off-spinner Reyneke, losing her stumps.
Harmanpreet too looked a million dollars while walloping a six off Marx and four off Chloe Tryon, but Reyneke found the Indian skipper’s outside edge, which was snaffled by Sinalo Jafta behind the wickets.
Deepti (36 not out, 26 balls) and Richa Ghosh (34 not out, 18 balls) added 65 runs for the sixth wicket but they could not always put their feet on the pedal and step on the gas.
But in the last five overs, the pair managed to score 56 runs to give their bowlers something to bowl to.
Published on Apr 26, 2026
Deepti (36 not out, 26 balls) and Richa Ghosh (34 not out, 18 balls) added 65 runs for the sixth wicket to give India a competitive total to fight with. | Photo Credit: X/BCCI WOMEN
Deepti (36 not out, 26 balls) and Richa Ghosh (34 not out, 18 balls) added 65 runs for the sixth wicket to give India a competitive total to fight with. | Photo Credit: X/BCCI WOMEN
Seasoned Deepti Sharma produced a stirring all-round effort, including her maiden fifer in the shortest format, to inspire India’s 14-run win over South Africa in the fourth women’s T20I here on Saturday.
South Africa had already taken an unassailable 3-0 lead coming into this match, and appeared all set to extend the run after restricting India to 185 for five.
But Deepti (5/19), who played a big role in taking India past the 180-run mark with a composed unbeaten 36, grabbed key wickets in the middle phase to impede SA’s run, and limit them to 171 for nine.
Deepti (36 not out, 26 balls) and Richa Ghosh (34 not out, 18 balls) added 65 runs for the sixth wicket to give India a competitive total to fight with. | Photo Credit: X/BCCI WOMEN
Deepti (36 not out, 26 balls) and Richa Ghosh (34 not out, 18 balls) added 65 runs for the sixth wicket to give India a competitive total to fight with. | Photo Credit: X/BCCI WOMEN
South Africa raised the challenge through Sune Luus (40) and Tazmine Brits (30), who added 54 runs for the second wicket. But once Deepti castled Luus, India were all over the home side like a bad rash.
Luus was seriously threatening to go big after skipper Laura Wolvaardt was earlier bowled by pacer Kranti Goud.
Apart from Luus, off-spinner Deepti also jettisoned Annerie Dercksen, big-hitting Kayla Reyneke, Tumi Sekhu and Ayabonga Khaka to break SA’s batting unit.
Earlier, India batters failed to build on their starts against a disciplined set of SA bowlers, posting a slightly below par 185 for five.
After being sent in to bat, India started off on a shaky note, losing Shafali Verma to Eliz Marx while Anushka Sharma, who came in for rested Smriti Mandhana, fell for 23.
India were 47 for two at the end of the Power Play segment, and needed to move on without losing further damage.
Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (22) and Jemimah Rodrigues (43) did just that, adding 55 runs for the third wicket in little over six overs.
Rodrigues was impressive, in particular, while smashing spinner Nonkhu Mlaba for 24 runs in the 11th over through a sequence of runs which read 4, 2, 6, 6, 2, 4.
The two successive sixes straight over the bowler’s head were a treat to watch.
But just as India were gaining some momentum, Rodrigues, who was dropped on 18, failed to connect a sweep off off-spinner Reyneke, losing her stumps.
Harmanpreet too looked a million dollars while walloping a six off Marx and four off Chloe Tryon, but Reyneke found the Indian skipper’s outside edge, which was snaffled by Sinalo Jafta behind the wickets.
Deepti (36 not out, 26 balls) and Richa Ghosh (34 not out, 18 balls) added 65 runs for the sixth wicket but they could not always put their feet on the pedal and step on the gas.
But in the last five overs, the pair managed to score 56 runs to give their bowlers something to bowl to.
Published on Apr 26, 2026
Seasoned Deepti Sharma produced a stirring all-round effort, including her maiden fifer in the shortest…