India's women's cricket team will make their debut at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022 being held in Birmingham scheduled from July 28 to August 8.
Cricket makes a return to CWG for the first time in 24 years, with the first women's tournament to be played out at the multi-sport event.
Eight sides will take part across 16 matches at Edgbaston, with a winner crowned and all the medals finalised on August 7.
India are in Group A along with Australia, Barbados and Pakistan, while Group B has hosts England, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
India will play their opening game against Meg Lanning's Australia on July 29. India will play arch-rivals Pakistan on July 31.
Cricket has featured only once before at the Commonwealth Games—as a 16-team tournament on the men's side—at the Kuala Lumpur Games, back in 1998.
South Africa claimed gold by beating Australia in the final, chasing down a target of 184 after Shaun Pollock's 4-19 (9 overs). Mike Rindel top-scored with 67 (106 balls), with Jacques Kallis' 44 ensuring victory.
In the bronze-medal match, Chris Harris was crucial with both bat and ball, joint top-scoring with unbeaten 56 before taking 2/20 (7.4) in a 51-run victory.
Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shafali Verma, Sabbhineni Meghana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Yastika Bhatia, Taniya Bhatia, Harleen Deol, Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Sneh Rana
STAND BY: Richa Ghosh, Simran Dil Bahadur, Poonam Yadav
