India Women vs Australia Women: India's opening batter Pratika Rawal, who celebrated India's World Cup victory in Navi Mumbai on a wheelchair due to an injury, has found her place in the squad named for the three-match ODI series against Australia. Notably, Rawal has completed her rehabilitation at the BCCI's CoE (Centre of Excellence), marking her much-awaited return to competitive Cricket.

Rawal, who was India's second-highest run-scorer in their World Cup-winning campaign, has been out of action since October 26 after sustaining injuries to her right ankle and knee during the washed-out Women’s World Cup league stage match against Bangladesh and, as a result, was ruled out of the tournament’s knockout games.

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"The Women’s Selection Committee has added Pratika Rawal to India’s squad for the three-match ODI series against Australia women, which is part of the ongoing multi-format tour of Australia.

"Pratika Rawal has completed her rehabilitation at the BCCI Centre of Excellence (COE) and has fully recovered from her ankle injury sustained in October during the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025," the BCCI said in a statement.

The ODI leg of the multi-format series against Australia begins on February 24 with the first game in Brisbane, followed by the other two in Hobart. India women are currently leading 1-0 in the ongoing T20I leg, which will conclude on February 21. Perth will host the only Test on March 6.

Pratika Rawal's Stats:

The 24-year-old opening batter had been one of India’s standout performers in the ODI World Cup, with 308 runs in her account, including a century and a half-century.

Rawal made her ODI debut in December 2024 and was an immediate success. In 24 innings, she has 1110 runs at an average of 50.45 and strike rate of 82.83 and has made big contributions at the top of the order, hitting two centuries and seven half-centuries.

Her impressive performance saw the top-order batter her maiden BCCI central contract earlier this month.

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India’s updated squad for the ODI series against Australia: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, Renuka Thakur, Sree Charani, Vaishnavi Sharma, Kranti Gaud, Sneh Rana, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Uma Chetry (wk), Kashvee Gautam, Amanjot Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harleen Deol, Pratika Rawal

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