Devika Vaidya replaces Pooja Vastrakar in India's squad

The event technical committee of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 2018 has approved Devika Vaidya as a replacement for the injured Pooja Vastrakar.



Vastrakar suffered a knee injury during a warm-up match against the Windies ahead of the 9-24 November tournament and has now been withdrawn from the squad after continuous assessment.



The ICC event technical committee comprising Geoff Allardice, Chris Tetley, Mel Jones, Ebony Rainford-Brent, Jennifer Nero and Roland Holder permitted a replacement for her.



Vaidya has played 9 ODIs and a lone T20I till date with her T20 appearance taking place nearly 4 years ago. She made her return to the ODI squad early this year against after battling a shoulder injury only for her to remain out of the squad against Sri Lanka owing to dengue.



Vaidya is expected to join the squad in time for the semi-finals, to be played in Antigua on 22 November. In the interim, India play Australia in their last Group B league match in Guyana on Saturday to decide the group toppers with both sides having already qualified.



India Squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Mithali Raj, Jemimah Rodrigues, Veda Krishnamurthy, Anuja Patil, Dayalan Hemalatha, Deepti Sharma, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Devika Vaidya, Mansi Joshi, Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht