NEW DELHI: Gunalan Kamalini and Vaishnavi Sharma on Tuesday earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian women's team for the upcoming five-match T20I series against Sri Lanka at home.

The series is scheduled from December 21 to 30, with the first two matches set to be played in Visakhapatnam and the remaining three in Thiruvananthapuram.

Seventeen-year-old wicketkeeper-batter Kamalini has played nine matches for Mumbai Indians in the Women's Premier League, while 19-year-old Vaishnavi, also part of the 15-member India squad, was not picked in the WPL auctions.

Kamalini and Vaishnavi replace Radha Yadav and Uma Chhetri, who were part of the squad that lifted the ODI World Cup last month.

Apart from Kamalini and Vaishnavi, the squad features all the familiar faces, with Harmanpreet Kaur leading the team and Smriti Mandhana serving as vice captain.

Big-hitting opener Shafali Verma, who was included in the World Cup squad ahead of the semifinal against Australia after Pratika Rawal was ruled out due to injury, is also part of the team.

India and Sri Lanka will play this five-match series just before the start of WPL 2026 on January 9 in Navi Mumbai.

The schedule for this bilateral series was announced shortly after the white-ball series between India and Bangladesh, originally set for December in India, was postponed last month.

The last T20I encounter between India and Sri Lanka took place at the World Cup in October 2024.

India's squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Smriti Mandhana (vice captain), Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Harleen Deol, Amanjot Kaur, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Renuka Singh Thakur, Richa Ghosh (WK), G Kamalini (WK), Sree Charani, Vaishnavi Sharma.

(With PTI Inputs)