While the men's Australia A squad prepares for Puducherry, a second Australia A team is on its way to India. Australia A Women tour for a full multi-format series starting September 12, and the BCCI has named three India A squads for it, with Yastika Bhatia and Anushka Sharma sharing the captaincy.
The tour is split across three venues in the north. Three T20s open the series at New Chandigarh on September 12, 15 and 17, followed by three one-day matches at the PCA Stadium in Mohali on September 20, 23 and 25. The tour closes with a single multi-day fixture at Dharamshala from September 29 to October 2 — the format India A's women get least often, and the one with the most obvious development value.
Yastika Bhatia leads India A in both the one-day and multi-day matches, keeping wicket in both, with Anushka Sharma as her vice-captain. Anushka Sharma takes over as captain for the three T20s, with Sayali Satghare named vice-captain for that leg.
Bhatia's appointment is the more notable of the two. A wicketkeeper-batter whose senior India career has been repeatedly interrupted by injury, she is being handed leadership across the two longer formats at exactly the point where India's selectors are looking at their keeping depth beyond the established names.
The one-day squad: Yastika Bhatia (c, wk), Anushka Sharma (vc), Vrinda Dinesh, Priya Punia, Tanisha Singh, Tejal Hasabnis, Nikki Prasad, Uma Chetry (wk), Minnu Mani, Amandeep Kaur, Vaishnavi Sharma, Sayali Satghare, Jintimani Kalita, Shabnam Shakeel and Akshita Bhagat.
The multi-day squad keeps the same leadership and brings in red-ball options including Shubha Satheesh, Mamata Madiwala (wk), Sushree Dibyadarshini and Shuchi Upadhyay alongside Punia, Hasabnis, Prasad, Vaishnavi Sharma, Satghare, Kalita, Shakeel and Bhagat.
The T20 squad is led by Anushka Sharma with Satghare as deputy, and adds Sujata Dey, Shipra Giri (wk), Shweta Sehrawat and Tanuja Kanwer to a core that overlaps with the one-day group.
Analysis: India A tours against Australian opposition have become a reliable route into the senior side, and the timing here is pointed. India's first-choice women's squad is occupied with the Women's Asia Cup and then the Asian Games through this same window, which means the A series is the only place selectors can watch the next tier play meaningful cricket against a strong touring side. Players like Vrinda Dinesh, Tejal Hasabnis and Shweta Sehrawat are in the bracket where a good three weeks changes the conversation.
The multi-day match at Dharamshala carries extra weight for a different reason: red-ball opportunities for Indian women remain scarce, and with Test cricket appearing more regularly on the women's calendar than it did five years ago, a four-day fixture against Australia A is a rare and genuinely useful audition.
Fixtures from New Chandigarh, Mohali and Dharamshala will appear on SportGod's live matches page, and you can build lineups for the white-ball legs in SportGod's free contests.
Schedule, venues, captaincy appointments and squad names are verified against same-day reporting on the BCCI's India A squad announcement, current as of September 3, 2026.
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