Supernovas will continue with their winning combination and go unchanged for the Women’s T20 Challenge game against Deepti Sharma’s Velocity at the MCA Stadium, Pune on Tuesday. 

Velocity captain Deepti Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first. 

Announcing her team combination at the toss, Sharma said that the team goes with five full-time batters and three all-rounders. 

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“We will bowl first, it will assist the spinners as it’s an afternoon game. The preparations have been good. I am excited to lead the team,” the Velocity captain said at the toss. 

Harmanpreet Kaur, on the other hand, said that Supernovas go with the same 11. 

“We were looking to bat first anyway. We need to post a good total again. There were a lot of positives from yesterday’s match. We are going with the same XI,” the Supernovas captain said. 

Harmanpreet Kaur and co rode on Pooja Vastrakar’s four-wicket haul for 12 runs to beat Smriti Mandhana’s Trailblazers on Monday. The Supernovas won by 49 runs. 

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The 22-year-old Vastrakar claimed the wickets of Trailblazers’ captain Smriti Mandhana (34), her opening partner Hayley Matthews (18), No. 4 Sophia Dunkley (1) and Salma Khatun (0) in two separate spells to tear apart the batting line-up of the defending champions.

England left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone and Australia all-rounder Alana King chipped in with two wickets apiece as Trailblazers could only score 114 for 9 in 20 overs while chasing 164.

The Supernovas had earlier scored the tournament’s highest-ever score of 163 all out after opting to bat.

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Squads:

Supernovas Squad: Priya Punia, Deandra Dottin, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Sune Luus, Alana King, Pooja Vastrakar, Sophie Ecclestone, Taniya Bhatia(w), Meghna Singh, V Chandu, Mansi Joshi, Muskan Malik, Ayushi soni, Monica Patel, Rashi Kanojiya

Velocity Squad: Shafali Verma, Laura Wolvaardt, Yastika Bhatia, Deepti Sharma(c), Shivali Shinde(w), Sneh Rana, Ayabonga Khaka, Kate Cross, Radha Yadav, Simran Bahadur, Keerthi James, Natthakan Chantham, Maya Sonawane, Aarti Kedar, Pranavi Chandra, Kiran Navgire