Bangladeshi pacer Jahanara Alam will be playing for Velocity, which is one of the three teams in the Women’s T20 Challenge organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Scheduled to begin from May 6, BCCI announced that the Women’s T20 will see four matches played between the three teams in Jaipur as standalone games during the 2019 VIVO IPL Playoff week.
Jahanara’s Velocity will be playing against Trailblazers on May 8 before battling it out with Supernovas on May 9. For the upcoming tournament in Jaipur, 39 players, including internationals, have been divided among three teams - Supernovas, Trailblazers, and Velocity. The teams will be led by India internationals Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Mithali Raj.
Current India women head coach WV Raman has been named the coach of Harmanpreet's Supernovas, while fielding coach Biju George will be in charge of Mandhana's Trailblazers. Former India women's captain Mamatha Maben, who had applied for the India women head coach's position after the exit of Ramesh Powar last year, will coach Raj's Velocity.