Cricket : Veda Krishnamurthy dropped from NZ tour

Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur were retained as captains for the Indian women's ODI and T20 team respectively while out-of-form Veda Krishnamurthy was dropped from both the squads picked for the New Zealand tour beginning next month.India will play three ODIs in New Zealand beginning January 24 as part of the ICC Women's Championship before playing three T20 Internationals. The 15-member squad for ODIs and T20s was announced a day after WV Raman was appointed as the head coach. Veda has been replaced by Mona Meshram in the ODI squad. The 22-year-old Delhi opener Priya Puniya got her maiden India call-up as she was named in the T20I squad. Devika Vaidya, who had come in as a replacement for the injured Pooja Vastrakar, is the other player apart from Veda to be dropped from the squad that featured in the World T20.