Shreyanka Patil out of World Cup, Prema Rawat, who did not play a single match for India, got a chance to debut

Prema Rawat: Indian women’s cricket team’s star all-rounder Shreyanka Patil has been ruled out of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 due to a serious ankle ligament injury. She was injured in India’s second match of the tournament against Netherlands. Now BCCI has announced the replacement of Shreyanka. In place of the star all-rounder, the board has included a player in the team who has not played a single international match. Let us know who is this player…

Prema Rawat got a chance to debut

Actually, after getting injured against Netherlands, Indian star all-rounder Shreyanka Patil is out of the T20 World Cup. The board has included uncapped leg-spinner Prema Rawat in his place in the Indian team. Let us tell you, Prema Rawat has been selected in the Indian team for the first time. ICC’s Event Committee has approved Prema’s name as Shreyanka’s replacement. Now Prema will make her international debut for Team India from the T20 World Cup.

⚡️ Shreyanka Patil has been ruled out of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 with an ankle injury. Uncapped leggie Prema Rawat has been called up as her replacement pic.twitter.com/afY3G0ky1M

— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) June 19, 2026

Also read: INDW vs NEDW: Shreyanka Patil got injured during the match, was taken out of the field on a stretcher.

Had a great performance in WPL

24-year-old Indian female all-rounder Prema Rawat has performed brilliantly while playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Women’s Premier League. Apart from this, she has also shown excellent performance in the Women’s Asia Cup Rising Sports Tournament. While playing for India A, he took 8 wickets at an excellent average of 9.62.

What are the rules?

Prema Rawat is already present in England for the India-A tour. In such a situation, as soon as she gets the approval from ICC, she is joining the Indian World Cup team. According to ICC rules, if a team includes a player in its squad during the tournament, then before that it has to take official permission from the ICC Event Technical Committee.