India have added left-arm spinner Radha Yadav to their squad for the remainder of the T20I tri-series against Australia and England, in place of Rajeshwari Gayakwad.
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Radha Yadav called in as replacement for Rajeshwari Gayakwad
Rajeshwari Gayakwad was earlier called in as replacement for Ekta Bisht. © Getty
The home team had earlier suffered an injury blow on the eve of the tri-series opener, against Australia. Experienced left-arm spinner Ekta Bisht, who was due to make her comeback in the series after missing out in South Africa, injured her left index finger while attempting a return catch in the third ODI against Australia in Baroda on Sunday (March 18) and was subsequently ruled out. Gayakwad was then roped in as a like-for-like replacement for Bisht.
Radha, 17, made her international debut in the shortest format in the five-match series opener in South Africa last month. She went wicket-less for two games on the trot before getting dropped for the remainder of the series.
The Baroda spinner was, however, a part of the India A side that took on England in the warm-up games prior to the start of the tri-series in Mumbai. Radha returned figures of 2 for 37 from her four overs in the first of the two practice matches.
Updated squad:Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Mithali Raj, Veda Krishnamurthy, Jemimah Rodrigues, Anuja Patil, Deepti Sharma, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Poonam Yadav, Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey, Pooja Vastrakar, Rumeli Dhar, Mona Meshram, Radha Yadav
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