Shafali Verma, Radha Yadav set to make WBBL debuts
Indian batting sensation Shafali Verma is about to make her Girls’s Giant Bash League debut with two-time champions Sydney Sixers later this 12 months.
The 17-year-old is anticipated to be joined via left-arm spinner Radha Yadav, who’s recently in talks with the Syndey Sixers franchise.
“Shafali’s deal is completed, it’s going to be introduced when the Girls’s Giant Bash agenda is launched,” a BCCI supply instructed PTI.
“Radha may be in talks with the Sydney Sixers,” the supply added.
{The teenager}’s father used to be additionally required to signal a consent shape as Shafali remains to be a minor.
Shefali joins the trio of T20 skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (Sydney Thunder), opener Smriti Mandhana (Brisbane Warmth) and all-rounder Veda Krishnamurthy (Hobart Hurricanes), which has featured within the WBBL.
The sector primary batter in ICC girls’s T20I ratings can also be turning up for Birmingham Phoenix within the inaugural version of The Hundred — the 100-ball home festival of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) later this 12 months.
Whilst The Hundred, which used to be postponed remaining 12 months because of the COVID-19 pandemic, is scheduled to start out on July 21, the WBBL is slated later within the 12 months.
The Hundred would be the first in a foreign country T20 festival for Shafali, who has emerged as an impressive striker in global cricket with 617 runs at a strike charge of 148.31 in 22 world fits.
