India women’s tour of Australia: Training camps after 6 days of quarantine in Bengaluru
Members of the Indian women’s cricket team have started arriving in Bengaluru for a training camp ahead of their highly anticipated tour of Australia in September-October. India will host a historic day-night test, 3 T20Is and as many AUDI’s in Australia as they begin preparations for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which will be attended by 50 people.
Though the squads for the full-fledged tour are yet to be announced, around 30 cricketers have been asked to reach Bengaluru by Tuesday. The players will start training after a 6-day quarantine.
The players currently competing in the Hundred in England — Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, and Shafali Verma — have been asked to join the national team in Bengaluru no later than August 22 as they too will have to undergo a 6-day quarantine before the squad leaves for Australia at the end of the month.
The inaugural edition of The Hundred comes to a close on August 21.
The players will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine upon arrival in Australia before they take on the hosts in first ODI scheduled in Sydney. India are likely to be in hard quarantine for the first 7 days and train at their quarantine facility for the remainder of their quarantine period.
Playing a pink ball Test at the WACA in Perth will be the biggest challenge of the tour for the team considering the women don’t even play red ball cricket in domestic cricket. However, India staged a brilliant comeback to draw the one-off Test in England, their first red-ball game in almost seven years. The players are expected to practice with the pink ball during the training camp.
