Senior members of the Indian women’s cricket team, Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur, thanked the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday (May 18) for carrying out players’ regular COVID-19 tests at home and arranging charters to take the cricketers to Mumbai for the two-week quarantine ahead of the all-important England tour.
Taking to Twitter, Mithali, who leads the Test and ODI side, wrote: "Traveling is a challenge in the pandemic but it is reassuring to see elaborate measures by BCCI for our health and safety. A charter flight to Mumbai and UK and regular RT-PCR Tests at home."
In her tweet, T20I skipper Harmanpreet hailed the cricket board’s initiative before adding that some players made their own choice of travelling to Mumbai, bearing in mind the distance and individual convenience.
"The BCCI has organised Charter flights to ferry both men and women players to Mumbai before we leave for the UK. Considering the distance and individual convenience players have made their own choice," Harmanpreet tweeted.
During the England tour, the Indian women’s cricket team will play a four-day Test match followed by three ODIs and three T20Is. The tour will run from June 16 to July 15.
Indian Women's Test and ODI squad: Mithali Raj (captain), Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur (vice-captain), Punam Raut, Priya Punia, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Sneh Rana, Taniya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Indrani Roy (wicket-keeper), Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, Radha Yadav.
Indian Women’s T20I squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Richa Ghosh, Harleen Deol, Sneh Rana, Taniya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Indrani Roy (wicket-keeper), Shikha Pandey, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, Radha Yadav, Simran Bahadur.
