India squad announcement for Women's T20 World Cup 2026, live updates: Who's in, who's out?

India are coming off a 4-1 loss to South Africa in South Africa.

Before that though, they beat Australia 2-1 Down Under and thumped Sri Lanka 5-0 at home after the ODI World Cup triumph.

Earlier in 2025 they also beat England 3-2, in England. 

Nothing out of the ordinary is expected. A couple of bolters could be Kashvee Gautam, Vaishnavi Sharma or Bharti Fulmali, who haven't played much for India.

Pacer Nandani Sharma made the India 'A' team after she took 17 wickets in the WPL, but is yet to receive a senior team call-up at all.  

There could be quite a few.

Yastika Bhatia, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Sobhana and Pooja Vastrakar have not played a single T20I since the last tournament.

N Shree Charani, Amanjot Kaur and Kranti Gaud have emerged as important players in both white-ball formats since then as well, so they could be in contention. 

Batters: Smriti Mandhana (vc), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Richa Ghosh (wk), Dayalan Hemalatha, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma.

All-rounders: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Shreyanka Patil, Sajeevan Sajana, Deepti Sharma, Asha Sobhana.

Bowlers: Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav.

The squad will be revealed on May 2, following a selection meeting at the BCCI headquarters.