{"id":194110,"date":"2025-10-12T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194110\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:16:10","slug":"india-opener-snubbed-for-world-cup-blasts-57-ball-ton-in-domestic-t20-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194110\/","title":{"rendered":"India Opener Snubbed For World Cup Blasts 57-Ball Ton In Domestic T20 Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200px\" height=\"675px\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/OTH76chKNJ.jpg\"  alt=\"Shafali Verman batting for India\" importance=\"low\" class=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"drop-cap-intro\">Discarded India ODI opener, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/players\/shafali-verma-70772\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shafali Verma<\/a>, struck 107 off 61 ball for Haryana today (October 11), continuing her blistering form in domestic cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Verma&#8217;s hundred came off 57 balls, with the next-highest scorer in Haryana&#8217;s innings \u2013 Deeya Yadav \u2013 out for 36. Her knock helped the side to a total of 188-3, with Verma hitting 16 boundaries in her innings. <\/p>\n<p>In response, Himachal Pradesh could only reach 118-7, with only SM Singh able to pass 30. Triveni Vasistha, Amandeep Kaur and Sonia Mendhiya shared six wickets between them. <\/p>\n<p> Verma responds to continued ODI snub <\/p>\n<p>Verma was dropped from India&#8217;s ODI side at the end of last year, after averaging 18 in her previous six innings. She had been a mainstay for India at the top of their order since 2021, when she burst onto the scene as a teenager. <\/p>\n<p>However, since being dropped, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/series\/england-vs-india-w-2025\/cricket-news\/shafali-verma-deserves-an-odi-return-her-exclusion-is-indias-own-loss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she has been in stellar form on the domestic circuit<\/a> in both the 50 and 20 over formats. She averaged 66.46 in India&#8217;s 50-over domestic season last year, scoring three hundreds in 16 matches as well as five half-centuries. Those hundreds included a 115-ball 197 in December last year, in which she hit 22 fours and 11 sixes. Playing for India A in Australia earlier this year, she hit a half-century in the last game of the 50-over series. She also hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/series\/icc-womens-cricket-world-cup-2025\/cricket-news\/explosive-india-opener-shafali-verma-overlooked-for-world-cup-blitzes-70-off-49-in-warm-up-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 49-ball 70 for India A against New Zealand<\/a> in a World Cup warm-up fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of India&#8217;s World Cup squad announcement, there was speculation that Verma&#8217;s domestic form could lead to an ODI recall. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/series\/icc-womens-cricket-world-cup-2025\/cricket-news\/explained-why-india-left-out-shafali-varma-from-world-cup-squad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">India opted to stick with Pratika Rawal<\/a>, who averages over 50 in ODIs since making her debut last year. The more versatile option of Yatika Bhatia was preferred as their reserve batter.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s World Cup campaign got off to a good start against Sri Lanka and Pakistan, but they stumbled against South Africa, and picked up their first loss of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Wisden for all cricket updates, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/live-cricket-scores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/live-cricket-scores\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" class=\"c-link\">live scores<\/a>, match stats, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/quizzes\/daily-quiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/quizzes\/daily-quiz\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" class=\"c-link\">quizzes<\/a> and more. Stay up to date with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/cricket-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/cricket-news\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" class=\"c-link\">latest cricket news<\/a>, player updates, team standings<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/series\/icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2024\/points-table-standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/series\/icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2024\/points-table-standings\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" class=\"c-link\">,<\/a> match highlights, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WisdenCricket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WisdenCricket\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" class=\"c-link\">video analysis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/cricket-betting?utm_source=outro&amp;utm_medium=interlink&amp;utm_campaign=cricketbet_hub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/cricket-betting?utm_source=outro&amp;utm_medium=interlink&amp;utm_campaign=cricketbet_hub\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" class=\"c-link\">live match odds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discarded India ODI opener, Shafali Verma, struck 107 off 61 ball for Haryana today (October 11), continuing her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-194110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}