Pratika Rawal regains full fitness, added to India's ODI squad for Australia series

Pratika Rawal has been added to India's ODI squad for the upcoming three-match series against Australia as the 16th member of the touring party. The announcement has come following her successful rehab after a right knee and ankle injury cut her ODI World Cup participation short. 

"Ms Pratika Rawal has completed her rehabilitation at the BCCI Centre of Excellence (COE) and has fully recovered from her ankle injury sustained in October during the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025," read a BCCI release.

Rawal suffered the injury while fielding during the 28th match of the ODI World Cup 2025 against Bangladesh at the Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai on Sunday, October 26.

She missed the semifinals against the Aussies and the final against South Africa, with the selectors replacing her with Shafali Verma. Shafali scored 87 off 78 balls, laced with seven fours and two sixes at a strike rate of 111.54.

Shafali was adjudged the Player of the Match (POTM) in the final showdown as she also bagged figures of 2/36 in seven overs.

Meanwhile, despite missing the final two matches, Rawal finished as the fourth-leading run-getter with 308 runs in six innings at an average of 51.33, including a century and a half-century. The 25-year-old has got off to a rollicking start to her ODI career, having already amassed 1110 runs in 24 games at an impressive average of 50.45 at a strike rate of 82.83, including two centuries and seven fifties. 

The Australia-India ODI series will get underway at the Gabba in Brisbane on February 26.

India women squad for ODIs in Australia:

Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, Renuka Thakur, N Shree Charani, Vaishnavi Sharma, Kranti Gaud, Sneh Rana, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Uma Chetry (wk), Kashvee Gautam, Amanjot Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harleen Deol, Pratika Rawal