{"id":229222,"date":"2025-10-28T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229222\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:46:08","slug":"shafali-verma-india-call-up-batter-in-place-of-injured-pratika-rawal-for-world-cup-semi-final-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229222\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafali Verma: India call up batter in place of injured Pratika Rawal for World Cup semi-final against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

India have called up batter Shafali Verma in place of the injured Pratika Rawal for their Women’s World Cup semi-final against Australia.<\/p>\n

Rawal sustained an ankle injury<\/a> while fielding during India’s final group game against Bangladesh on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old opener tried to stop a boundary on the slippery outfield at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai and was later unable to bat in the match.<\/p>\n

Rawal is the tournament’s second-highest run-scorer with 308 in six innings at 51.33, behind only fellow India opening batter Smriti Mandhana.<\/p>\n

India’s request to replace Rawal in their squad with Verma was approved by the International Cricket Council’s event technical committee for the tournament.<\/p>\n

Verma has not played a one-day international for India since October 2024 but has played 50-over cricket for India A in recent months.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old was left out of India’s original squad for the World Cup but will now come into contention for a place against Australia in the semi-final showdown on 30 October.<\/p>\n

Amanjot Kaur opened against Bangladesh after Rawal limped out while Uma Chetry and Jemimah Rodrigues are other potential partners for Mandhana at the top of the order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India have called up batter Shafali Verma in place of the injured Pratika Rawal for their Women’s World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-229222","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\/229222","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=229222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}