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Women's Asia Cup 2024: All you need to know about Harmanpreet Kaur-led India's schedule

Women's Asia Cup 2024: All you need to know about Harmanpreet Kaur-led India's schedule

Women's Asia Cup 2024: All you need to know about India's full schedule

The Indian women's cricket team is set to kickoff their campaign in the 2024 Asia Cup (T20Is) on Friday (July 19). The continental event kicks off on Friday with UAE locking horns with Nepal before India take on Pakistan, later in the day, in the marquee clash. Harmanpreet Kaur-led India are favourites going into the tournament, to be held in Sri Lanka, after winning the previous edition in 2022.

India have been the most-successful team in the Asia Cup, winning the title as many as seven times. This time around, the tournament has more significance as it is being held just before the upcoming T20 World Cup, in Bangladesh in October.

Talking about the Asia Cup, thetournament compriseseightteams who have been split into two groups. India are in Group A alongsidePakistan, Nepal and UAE whereas hosts Sri Lanka, former champions Bangladesh, Malaysia and Thailand are part ofGroup B.

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Here is India's full schedule at Women's Asia Cup

After facing Pakistan in their opener, the Indian eves will be up against UAE and Nepal on July 21 and 23, respectively. The heavyweight side are expected to go the distance in the eight-team tournament.

The semifinals will be held on July 26 and the final will be on July 28. All the games will be played in Dambulla.

India squad:

Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Uma Chetry (wk), Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Sobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sajana Sajeevan

Travelling reserves: Shweta Sehrawat, Saika Ishaque, Tanuja Kanwer, Meghna Singh

Harman-led India are entering this competition on the back of a successful home series versus South Africa, where they whitewashed the three ODIs, won the one-off Test and drew the three T20Is 1-1.