BCCI names Prema Rawat as Shreyanka Patil's replacement for Women's T20 WC 26

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Team India’s star spinner Shreyanka Patil has been ruled out of the remainder of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026. She sustained an ankle injury while fielding during Team India’s match against the Netherlands on Wednesday.

Following the injury, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced spinner Prema Rawat as her replacement in India’s squad for the ongoing global showpiece.

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Prema Rawat replaces the injured Shreyanka Patil in #TeamIndia‘s squad at ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026.

Following Prema’s inclusion in the squad, Niki Prasad has been added to the India A T20 squad and Minnu Mani has been added to the India A One-Day squad.

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Prema has been a part of India A, where she picked up eight wickets in five games during the Women’s Asia Cup Rising Stars tournament. With seven wickets in three matches, she was also the joint-leading wicket-taker in India A’s tour of Australia.

So far in the ongoing Women’s T20 World Cup, the “Women in Blue” under the leadership of Harmanpreet Kaur have secured two wins in as many games. They began their campaign by registering a victory by 64 runs against the arch-rivals, Pakistan, at the Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham.

Recently, they defeated the Netherlands by 95 runs at the Headingley Cricket Ground in Leeds.

Team India’s star batswoman Smriti Mandhana is the leading run-scorer with 142 runs with an average of 71.00. The bowling chart is also dominated by an Indian player. Shree Charani is enjoying the top spot on the list of players with the most wickets. She has bagged seven wickets in two matches. Deepti Sharma is in the third place with six scalps.

Team India will take on South Africa in the upcoming fixture on June 21 at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Greater Manchester.

Women’s T20 World Cup 2026: India’s updated squad for the marquee event

Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Bharti Fulmali, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (WK), Sree Charani, Yastika Bhatia (WK), Nandni Sharma, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Radha Yadav, Prema Rawat.

(With ANI Inputs)

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