Toss India chose to bowl vs West Indies India captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and chose to bowl against West Indies in the final league game of the women’s T20I tri-series at Buffalo Park. Fast bowler Renuka Singh, who missed all of India’s previous games in the series, returned to the XI replacing left-arm spinner Radha Yadav. Apart from Renuka, India have Shikha Pandey and Pooja Vastrakar as seam-bowling…
Allan Border Medal: Steven SmithBelinda Clark Medal: Beth MooneyShane Warne Men’s Test Player of the Year: Usman KhawajaMen’s ODI Player of the Year: David WarnerWomen’s ODI Player of the Year: Beth MooneyMen’s T20I Player of the Year: Marcus StoinisWomen’s T20I Player of the Year: Tahlia McGrathBBL Player of the Tournament: Matt ShortWBBL Player of the Tournament: Ash GardnerMen’s Domestic Player of the Year: Michael NeserWomen’s Domestic Player of the Year:…
M Vijay has called time on his international career to explore “new opportunities in the world of cricket and the business side of it”. Vijay played 61 Tests, 17 ODIs and nine T20Is in an international career that began in 2008 when he replaced Gautam Gambhir in India’s XI for the final Test of the 2008-09 Border Gavaskar Trophy in Nagpur. He last turned out for India in the Perth…
Alyssa Healy will play in the first game of Australia’s T20 World Cup defence after recovering from a calf injury in time for the tournament in South Africa. And with the first significant injury lay-off of her professional career behind her, the Australian vice-captain is eyeing a potential call-up to the Women’s Premier League in India. Healy has not played cricket since December 17, when she tweaked her calf on…
India’s stand-in captain Hardik Pandya has described the Lucknow pitch as a “shocker” after his side chased down 100 with just a ball to spare in the second T20I against New Zealand. The Ekana Stadium track offered big turn throughout the game, much like how the Ranchi pitch did in the first T20I on Friday. “To be honest, this was a shocker of a wicket,” Hardik told Star Sports at…
Australia hope that specially prepared pitches at home will help them achieve one of the biggest overseas challenges: winning a Test series in India which they have not done since 2004. The squad has traded off a longer build-up on the ground in India – and there won’t be a warm-up match – in favour of a short pre-series camp where the North Sydney Oval curator Kieran Meurant served up…
“I am still here and I still deserve to be where I am.” His innings of 109 from 102 balls been described by commentators and former captains Shaun Pollock and Ashwell Prince as the best they’ve seen Bavuma bat in international cricket, not only because of his clean hitting and quick-scoring but because of the context this hundred came in. Bavuma has spent the last year on an “emotional rollercoaster,”…
“This is just the beginning,” smiled Shafali Verma, the Under-19 India captain who had just led her country to a maiden World Cup title in women’s cricket. The beauty of that statement was that it is – and isn’t – just the beginning. For many of its participants from 16 nations, the inaugural ICC Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa was a first foray into representing their country…
Nooshin Al Khadeer, the head coach of the victorious Under-19 Women’s team, has admitted that the World Cup was something India had been “waiting for very long”, while praising the depth in women’s cricket and its bright future in the country. India, captained by Shafali Verma, bowled out England for 68 in the final at the JB Marks Oval in Potchefstroom and cantered to a seven-wicket win to take home…
India 69 for 3 (Trisha 24, Tiwari 24*, Baker 1-13) beat England 68 (MacDonald-Gay 19, Sadhu 2-6, Chopra 2-13) by seven wickets A long, long wait for a World Cup win in women’s cricket finally ended for India. It was fitting that Nooshin Al Khadeer was at the helm of it all as the head coach, 18 years after she was part of India’s runners-up finish in the Women’s World…