Playing their first international match in 12 months, skipper Mithali Raj (50) and Harmanpreet Kaur (40) produced fine knocks but India never got the momentum it needed as they settled for 177 for nine.
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India will play five ODIs, starting with the first match on Sunday, followed by three T20Is in the home series against South Africa to kick off their calendar which was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
All the games will be played at state of the art Ekana Stadium with crowd capacity capped at 10 per cent.
Ekta Bisht, Veda Krishnamurthy, Taniya Bhatia and Shikha Pandey were dropped to make room for maiden call-ups Pratyusha Challaru, Monika Patel, Simran Dil Bahadur, Yastika Bhatia, Ayushi Soni and Swetha Verma.
The series, comprising five ODIs and three T20Is, will mark the Indian team's return to competitive cricket after almost 12 months.
The Indian team has not played since the T20 World Cup in March and there is no clarity over its next fixture with the Australia tour, scheduled to be held later this month, postponed to 2022.
The matches were due to take place on January 22 in Canberra, January 25 in Melbourne and January 28 in Hobart.
The 2022 Women's World Cup will be take place from March 4-April 3 in New Zealand.
There were a lot of applications but it has been learnt that former left-arm spinner Neetu David, took 141 wickets in 97 games for India, is a top contender for the BCCI post.
The Indian women's team was originally slated to play a bilateral series comprising three ODIs and three T20Is against England in June which got postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Mithali also said that a full-fledged women's IPL is still at least three years away although a fourth team can be added for the Challenger series.
The right-handed batswoman, just 16 years of age, played in the Indian colours for the very first time.
Indian women's team were supposed to play a bilateral series comprising three ODIs and three T20Is against England which remains postponed for the time being.
Rodrigues wants her fans to begin Sunday with a little bit of music and hence released a video of her singing Chand sa roshan chera.
The Indian women team's tour of England was scheduled to begin on June 25 but was postponed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, two T20Is and four ODIs against South Africa, planned for September, remain on the cards.
On this day, Punam Raut and Deepti Sharma added 320 runs for the opening wicket against Ireland in 2017.
Jhulan Goswami believes finding the right combination before any big tournament is the key and not just India, but every team is far away from that right now.
Mandhana has revealed her day to day activities in order to make sure how she makes the most of the lockdown period currently in place in the entire country.
Verma was 15 when she received her maiden national call-up last September and thereafter, the attention she got as a teenage sensation was expected.
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