Women's Cricket News: Bengal announces squad for Women's Senior T20 Trophy 2022; Rumeli Dhar to lead

In the latest women's cricket news, the Cricket Association of Bengal announced a full squad for the upcoming Women's Senior T20 Trophy 2022. Rumeli Dhar, the senior all-rounder will lead the team and Mita Paul has been chosen as her deputy.

The association has announced a 20-member squad for the upcoming tournament. Bengal will play in the Elite Group. Thus, their matches will start on the 18th of April. The BCCI was not able to organise the Senior Women's T20 Tournament in the 2020-21 season due to covid. The last time when the tournament was organised Bengal was the Runners-up in the tournament. They were beaten by an experienced Railways team in the 2019-20 final.

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Bengal Full Squad for the Women's Senior T20 Trophy

1. Rumeli Dhar (C)
2. Mita Paul (V.C)
3. Deepti Sharma
4. Richa Ghosh (Wk)
5. Gouher Sultana
6. Dhara Gujjar
7. Jhumia Khatun
8. Priyanka Bala
9. Saika Ishaque
10. Titas Sadhu
11. Tithi Das
12. Sansthita Biswas
13. Sukanya Parida
14. Sushmita Ganguly
15. Bristi Majhi
16. Parna Paul (WK)
17. Prativa Rana
18. Shrayosi Aich
19. Ankita Chakraborty
20. Sneha Gupta

Squad analysis

Rumeli Dhar had lead the Bengal team in the 2020-21 Women's Senior One-Day Tournament. She had replaced Jhulan Goswami as the leader of the team. Bengal has a very good record in the past seasons of this tournament. Now with the World Cup experience of Richa Ghosh and Deepti Sharma, it will be interesting to see how they perform in the tournament.

The last time when Bengal had played in the final of the same tournament, Prativa Rana was the captain of the team. However, she has not been in the thick of things since then and her fitness has been an issue as well. Meanwhile, Ankita Chakraborty's inclusion in the squad was a surprise as well.

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On the other hand, Hrishita Basu, Anindita Nath and Sasthi Mondal could have been a candidate for inclusion in the squad thinking of the future of Bengal Women's Cricket. Three of them were very good in the recently concluded BYJU'S Bengal Women's T20 Blast.

When we talk about the future, Bengal team management could have gone with Dhara Gujjar or Mita Paul for the captaincy as they will surely be the next captain of the Bengal women's team. Moreover, both of them had led their respective teams to the final of the BYJU'S Bengal Women's T20 Blast as well.

Priyanka Bala will be looking to make the most out of her opportunities after spending six years with the Railways team. Railways have granted her NOC to play for Bengal in the state tournaments.

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Along with her Gouher Sultana and Saika Ishaque will hold the key in the bowling with their left-arm orthodox spin. They both have the experience of winning trophies with the Bengal team. Hence, they will be vital to Bengal's success.

Former India Cricketer Gargi Banerjee has said, "Dhara, Mita and Titas will hold the key for the Bengal team. They have done well in the recent tournaments. I believe if they can do well, and others can chip in, Bengal can be the Champions of Women's Senior T20 Trophy 2022."

Bengal's schedule for Women's Senior T20 Trophy 2022

18th April 2022 - vs Mumbai
19th April 2022 - vs Saurashtra
21st April 2022 - vs Assam
22nd April 2022 - vs Haryana
24th April 2022 - vs Punjab

All the matches will start at 8.30 am.