ICC Women's World Cup Qualifiers: Indian pacers Jhulan Goswami, Sukanya Parida ruled out with injury

New Delhi: Medium pacers Jhulan Goswami and Sukanya Parida have been ruled out of the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifiers, to be played in Colombo from 7-21 February, due to injuries.

Soni Yadav will replace Goswami while Mansi Joshi has been named as replacement for Parida.

The BCCI had earlier informed that Mona Meshram had replaced Smriti Mandhana, who had sustained an injury during the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) in Australia.

Fifth-ranked India has been placed in Group A alongside Sri Lanka, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Thailand. India will play a warm-up match against South Africa on 5 February before its opening qualifier against hosts Sri Lanka on 7 February.

India’s second game is against Thailand on 8 February at the Colombo Cricket Club, followed by the third match against Ireland on 10 February at the P Sara Oval, Colombo. The final group match against Zimbabwe will be played on 13 February.

The top three sides from Group A and Group B will progress to the Super Six stage. The top four sides from the Super Six stage will complete the eight-team line-up for the 2017 Women’s World Cup. The top two sides will battle it out for the title in the final on 21 February.

The 14-member Indian team for the 2017 World Cup Qualifier: Mithali Raj (C), Harmanpreet Kaur, Mona Meshram, Thirushkamini MD, Veda Krishnamurthy, Devika Vaidya, Sushma Verma, Mansi Joshi, Shikha Pandey, Soni Yadav, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Deepti Sharma.