Sports Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Rohit Raj
Updated Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:08 PM IST
Summary
India’s star opener Smriti Mandhana and all-rounder Jemima Rodriguez have been retained for the Women’s T20 league ‘The Hundred’ to be held in England. Jemima plays for Northern Superchargers and Mandhana Southern Braves.
Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur
– Photo : Social Media
hear the news
Expansion
India’s star opener Smriti Mandhana and all-rounder Jemima Rodriguez have been retained for the Women’s T20 league ‘The Hundred’ to be held in England. Jemima plays for Northern Superchargers and Mandhana Southern Braves. In The Hundred 100 balls are bowled in an innings. Many women foreign players have been retained, among them only Mandhana and Rodriguez are Indians. Three female Indian players have been released.
The players to be released include Indian women’s T20 team captain Harmanpreet Kaur, young opener Shefali Verma and all-rounder Deepti Sharma. Now these three players will be available for other teams. Shefali has been dropped by Birmingham Phoenix, Harmanpreet Manchester Original and Deepti Sharma by London Spirit.
Talking about last season, Mandhana scored 167 runs in seven innings for Southern Brave. During this, Mandhana scored runs at a strike rate of 133.60. Jemima, on the other hand, had scored around 250 runs in five innings at an average of 60.25. His strike rate was 154.48. Retained overseas players include Sophie Devine (Birmingham Phoenix), Lizelle Lee (Manchester Originals), Laura Wolvaardt (Northern Superchargers) and Hayley Matthews (Welsh Fire). A total of 12 overseas players have been retained.
Smriti Mandhana has scored 325 runs in four test matches at an average of 46.4. He has 2377 runs in 62 ODIs. During this his average was 41.7 and strike rate was 84.7. At the same time, in international T20, he has scored 1971 runs in 84 matches at an average of 25.9. His strike rate is 120.8. At the same time, talking about Jemima, she has scored 394 runs in 21 matches of ODIs. At the same time, he has 1055 runs in 50 matches of T20. He has an average of 27.1 and a strike rate of 110.7.