New Delhi: Shreyanka Patil was injured in India’s second match of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2026. He injured his ankle in the Netherlands match. After that, there were fears that Shreyanka might not be able to participate in this year’s World Cup. It is so. The offspinner was knocked out of the tournament.

In India’s second World Cup match against the Netherlands, while collecting the ball from mid-on, Shreyanka slipped on the turf and landed awkwardly on her ankle. He writhed in severe pain. Later Shreyanka was quickly taken out of the field with the help of the medical team. Shreyanka covered her face in despair. He was finally seen leaving the field on a stretcher. The incident happened in the sixth over of the Netherlands’ batting in the game.

Instead of Shreyanka, the Indian team chose another spinner in the team. She is 24-year-old leg-spinner Prema Rawat. Notably, Prema has not played a single match for India till now, he is uncapped. It is undoubtedly a big thing to get a chance to be in the World Cup team there directly. Of course, Prema has experience playing in the WPL. Prema played six matches in two seasons for RCB. Rising Stars Asia CupHe caught Prema’s attention. In that tournament he took eight wickets at an economy rate of 4.27. He was then called up for the India ‘A’ team’s tour of England. That tour is scheduled to begin on Saturday. But before that, he got a call to the World Cup squad.

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Shreyanka, on the other hand, continued to suffer injury woes. He also missed the 2024 World Cup due to a finger injury. He also suffered a wrist injury after spraining his shin. Shreyanka’s World Cup dream ended due to another injury.

Talking about the match, Netherlands went to bat first in the match Indian team. Netherlands won the toss and elected to field first. The opening pair of Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma added 115 runs together. Both openers completed fifties. Smriti Mandhana played an innings of 74 runs off 47 balls with the help of 11 boundaries and 1 six. On the other hand, Shefali Verma played an innings of 55 runs. Jemaima scored 19 and Richa scored 20. Indian women’s cricket team scored 209 runs after losing 5 wickets in 20 overs.

Batting in reply, the Dutch camp started losing wickets from the start. Sri Charani played the best spell for the Indian team. In his spell of 4 overs, he took 4 wickets by spending 19 runs. Shefali Verma took 3 wickets. The Dutch were all out for 114 runs. India won the match by 95 runs.