Navi Mumbai: Summoned out of the blue attributable to a freak harm that dominated Pratika Rawal out of the event, opener Shafali Verma, who has a knack for being explosive but inconsistent, slogged it out throughout India’s coaching session underneath lights on the DY Patil Stadium on Tuesday with the remainder of the Indian girls’s crew, two days out from their 2025 Girls’s ODI World Cup semifinal conflict towards Australia. Shafali was all of the sudden drafted into the facet on Monday after opener Pratika Rawal was dominated out of the event following accidents to her knee and ankle, suffered throughout their final league match right here on the DY Patil Stadium towards Bangladesh. India will tackle seven-time champions Australia, unbeaten thus far within the World Cup, within the second semifinal right here on Thursday. The 21-year-old Shafali made her ODI debut for India on June 27, 2021, towards England in Bristol. General, she has performed 29 ODIs, scoring 644 runs at a median of 23.00. She has amassed 4 fifties in ODIs and has a highest rating of 71 not out. She is at present the highest run-getter within the ongoing Senior Girls’s T20 League, having made 341 runs at a strike price of 182.35 for Haryana. Spending greater than an hour within the nets, Shafali practised excessive catches together with her teammates earlier than padding as much as bat alongside the Indian prime order on the College Floor right here. In what can be a giant aid to the Indian girls’s cricket crew’s followers, keeper-batter Richa Ghosh, who missed the final league match towards Bangladesh on Sunday attributable to a finger harm, stored wickets towards internet bowlers and in addition had successful within the nets with none seen discomfort. Among the many others who skilled had been Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur, her deputy Smriti Mandhana, off-spinning allrounder Sneh Rana, and top-order batter Harleen Deol.