India to host South Africa women's cricket team

New Delhi: Indian women cricket team will play one Test, three One-day internationals and a Twenty20 match against South Africa in a home tour, starting November 12.

The visitors will begin the tour with a two-day warm-up game, starting November 12 at Alur, against India A ahead of the one-off Test, scheduled to be held in Mysore from November 16.

The Proteas team will then play a One-day warm-up game against India A in Bangalore on November 22 ahead of the ODI series. All three ODIs (November 24, 26, 28) and one-off T20 (November 30) match will be played at Chinnaswami stadium in Bangalore.

Mithali Raj will lead the 15-player Indian Test squad, which also has fast bowler Jhulan Goswami, Punam Raut and Harmanpreet Kaur.

RSPB's Gouher Sultana was named captain of the India A team, which will take on the visitors in the two-day game. Maharashtra's Smriti Mandhana will the Indian team in the One-day warm up game.

India's Test Squad:
Mithali Raj (Captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shikha Pandey, N. Niranjana, M.D. Thirushkamini, Jhulan Goswami, Punam Raut Harmanpreet Kaur, Shubhalakshmi Sharma, Ekta Bisht, Rajeshwari Gaekwad, Sushma Verma, Poonam Yadav, Swagatika Rath and VR Vanitha.

India A Squad for Two-day warm up game:

Gouher Sultana (Captain), Kalpana R, Deepti Sharma, VR Vanitha, Paramita Roy, Preeti Bose, Devika Vaidya, Sneh Rana, Swagatika Rath, Ananya Upendran, Meghna Singh, Vaishali Mathur, Veda Krishnamurthy and Tejal Hasabnis.
India A Squad for One-day warm up game
Smriti Mandhana (Captain), Shweta Verma, Sneha Morey, Sneh Rana, Devika Vaidya, Maharashtra, Manali Dakshini, Saika Ishaque, Tanushree Sarkar, Humera Kazi, Rizu Saha, Rakshita K, Soni Yadav, Deepti Sharma and Sushri Pradhan.