Shreyanka Patil returns as Anushka Sharma leads India A against England A

Shreyanka Patil has been named in all three India A squads for next month's home series against England A, with Anushka Sharma handed the white-ball captaincy

The BCCI's Women's Selection Committee announced the squads on Wednesday for an all-format series that runs from 30 November to 19 December and takes in three T20s, three one-day matches and a single multi-day fixture.

Anushka Sharma leads in both white-ball formats, with Minnu Mani named as her deputy. Mani takes over as captain for the multi-day match, where Tejal Hasabnis is vice-captain.

Patil is the most prominent name on all three lists. The Karnataka all-rounder has not played for India since the Asian Games campaign and was left out of both the home series against Zimbabwe and the tour of South Africa.

Back-to-back five-fors force a recall

Patil's case was made in the Senior Women's T20 Trophy in late October. She took 5-26 against Maharashtra on 27 October, then returned 5-18 against Goa two days later.

Karnataka won both matches, and Patil was named player of the match on each occasion.

She is one of only five players carried across all three squads, so her off-spin is available to India A in every format of the series.

Two captains for three formats

Anushka Sharma's appointment covers the six white-ball matches but not the red-ball fixture, for which she has not been selected at all.

That leaves Minnu Mani as the only player holding a leadership role for the whole tour — vice-captain in the T20s and the one-dayers, captain for the multi-day match.

Tejal Hasabnis, her deputy in the longer game, is in the one-day squad as well but does not feature in the T20 group.

The selectors have therefore split the job rather than handing one player a three-format brief, with Hasabnis's promotion limited to the match that most resembles first-class cricket.

Five names on every list

Tanisha Singh, Shipra Giri, Minnu Mani, Shreyanka Patil and Saima Thakor are the five players named in all three squads.

Giri keeps wicket throughout, partnered by G Kamalini in the two white-ball squads and by Uma Chetry in the multi-day side.

The rest of the selection is divided sharply by format. Amanjot Kaur, Sanika Chalke, Vaishnavi Sharma, Prema Rawat and Monica Patel are in the T20 squad alone.

Shubha Satheesh, Purvaja Verlekar, Henreitta Perera, Happy Kumari and Uma Chetry appear only in the multi-day group, while Priya Punia, Amisha Bahukandi, Akshita Bhagat and Shabnam Shakil cover the one-day and multi-day legs.

Vrinda Dinesh, Niki Prasad and Kashvee Gautam are in both white-ball squads, and are among the names the selectors have kept together through both white-ball formats.

Pune first, then the Wankhede

All three T20s are at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune, on 30 November, 3 December and 5 December.

The series then moves to the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai for the one-day matches on 8, 11 and 14 December.

The multi-day fixture, the last match of the tour, begins at the same ground on 19 December — the only red-ball cricket on the itinerary.

No standbys and no comment

The board listed no standby players alongside any of the three squads, and the selection committee released no accompanying statement.

The series carries the Muthoot FinCorp title sponsorship, and it is the second India women's squad announcement in the space of a few days, following the senior side's selection for an all-format tour of South Africa.

Each of the three squads contains 15 players, and the T20 and one-day groups share 10 of their names.

India A and England A open the series with the first T20 in Pune on 30 November.