India World Cup squad announced

Mithali Raj will spearhead India's World Cup campaign as she continues in the captaincy role for the tournament in South Africa which starts in March.

The eight teams will face each other in a round-robin basis ahead of the semi-final stages. Australia are the favourites, while India, New Zealand and England are expected to make the semi-finals at least. India have never won the World Cup, although they made the semi-finals of the last tournament where they lost to the eventual winners, the hosts New Zealand.

India squad
Mithali Raj (captain), Jaya Sharma, Hemalata Kala, Neetu David, Nooshin Al Khadeer, Amita Sharma, Deepa Marathe, Rumali Dhar, Arundhati Kirkire, Anju Jain, Jhulan Goswami, Anjum Chopra, Karuna Jain, Reema Malhotra.