Smriti Mandhana, who has been a key player for the Indian team in the last two-three years, said Shafali Verma is showing she is capable of filling her boots.
Top Indian women players such as Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana have earlier played in England's T20 Kia Super League.
The average age of Indian team, taking part in the Women's World Cup, is just 23 and features four teenagers.
Mandhana believes India's top four need to bat long to protect the inconsistent middle-order during the ICC Women's T20 World Cup beginning in Australia on February 21.India's middle-order has been unpredictable and its repeated failures have hurt them.
Among the bowlers, Poonam Yadav dropped six places to fall out of the top 10 and take the 12th position.
Former COA member Diana Edulji said the current team is losing games which it should win far too many times because of their inconsistent cricket.
Set a target of 156, India were all out for 144 after being 115 for three in the 15th over thanks to Jess Jonassen's 5/12 in four overs.
Chasing a huge total of 174, Indian eves rode on a sublime opening partnership between Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana who took the Australian bowlers to the cleaners right from the start.
Sixteen-year-old Shafali Verma finally came good, blasting a 28-ball 49 to give India a flying start. Her innings contained eight fours and a six.
India women's cricketer Smriti Mandhana heaped praise on the 15-year-old Shafali Verma after her exploits at the international level.
Smriti Mandhana said that men's cricket generate the most amount of revenue and women shouldn't be asking for the same amount of money as long as they don't match it.
Poonam Yadav was also named in the top bracket while Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami were in Grade 'B' in BCCI's annual player contracts for women.
Apart from Smriti Mandhana, Shikha Pandey, Jhulan Goswami and Poonam Yadav have also found a spot in ICC ODI team of the year.
The photoshopped version of the picture has Smriti in a lighter skin tone, and with kohl in her eyes, and lipstick on her lips.
Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana scored fifties as India (185/4) beat West Indies (101/9) by 84 runs in the first T20I of the five-match series at the Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium.
Smriti Mandhana has taken 51 innings to reach the 2,000-ODI run mark becoming the third-fastest woman after Belinda Clark and Meg Lanning to achieve the milestone.
India rode on a brilliant 141-run opening stand between Mandhana (74) and Rodrigues (69) to chase down the 195-run target with 47 balls to spare at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
Jasprit Bumrah, Smriti Mandhana were the two Indians among five winners of the Wisden India Almanack 'Cricketer of the Year' award.
Mandhana, who did not feature in the recently concluded ODI series against South Africa, has been replaced by New Zealand's Amy Satterthwaite at the top of the rankings.
Although the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is yet to confirm the development, it was learnt that Mandhana picked up a knock on her toe during practice a couple of days ago.
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