India Women's Team Gears Up for T20 World Cup with England Tour

With one year to go for the Women's T20 World Cup in England, India are set to begin preparations for the tournament with a five-match T20I series in England starting on June 28 (Saturday). India's vice-captain Smriti Mandhana looked forward to the event and felt there would be a chance for the Indian team to get a feel of the conditions.

Mandhana also mentioned that regular Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur was unwell on the day of the pre-match press conference but partially denied that Harmanpreet wouldn't take part in the match.

The visitors are coming off nearly a month of preparation for the England white-ball series which also consists three ODIs after the T20Is. With a number of players including the likes of Kranti Gaud and Sree Charani touring England for the first time, India arrived on English shores a week in advance to finetune their preparations heading into the series.

Mandhana admitted that there was always a scope for improvement from the batters in the T20 format with the planning and tactical nuance opposition teams always try to deploy.

India's pace bowling will be led by Arundathi Reddy this time around with Renuka Singh Thakur, Pooja Vastrakar and Titas Sadhu continuing to remain on the sidelines with injury. Amanjot Kaur, Gaud and Sayali Satghare will share the pace bowling workload with Reddy.

Mandhana was excited to see the young pace bowlers bring their rich domestic experience to the fore in the T20s against England.

According to the source: Cricbuzz.com.