Mumbai, March 24 -- The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the squad for the Indian women's team's five-match away T20I series against South Africa, starting from next month.

The five-match T20I series will start on April 17 and will go on till April 27.

Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur will be leading the side, with star batter Smriti Mandhana being her deputy. The likes of Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Bharti Fulmali, Uma Chetry, Anushka Sharma and wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh will provide power-packed batting options.

Anushka, who represented Gujarat Giants (GG) in this year's Women's Premier League (WPL), has received her first-ever call-up to the national side. During the tournament, she was one o...