Shafali Verma 2.0: Willingness to adapt and add dimensions | Cricket News
She’ll face bowling attacks of higher quality in the days and months to come, but in the year-ending five-match series against Sri Lanka, Shafali Verma showcased an evolution to her game that augurs well for 2026. She displayed the building blocks of a T20 game that has gone up a notch. “T20 toh mera favourite hai, mujhe bahut mazaa aata hai,” she broke into a chuckle after India’s 5-0 win. In a format anyway tailor-made for her, Shafali has shown the willingness to adapt and add more dimensions. With scores of 69*, 79* and 79 – 241 runs off 133 balls at a strike rate of 181.20 with 37 fours and five sixes – it was a Shafali show all the way. Picking up from where she left off in the World Cup final in Navi Mumbai, the opener was unstoppable in three of the five matches. When she was dropped from the India team late in 2024, it hit her hard. The prodigiously talented youngster faced the first major setback of her international career …
