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WPL 2024: RCB's Asha Sobhana revels in Arsenal, Leandro Trossard and Anil Kumble connection after historic five-for
Asha Shobana Joy's five-wicket haul helped Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) get off to a winning start at WPL 2024. If Asha is able to replicate Saturday’s success through the remainder of the WPL, more people will take note of her.
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WPL 2024: Smriti Mandhana’s Royal Challengers Bangalore to take on Alyssa Healy-led UP Warriorz in second match
Tata WPL 2024 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs UP Warriorz: Date, time, venue, teams, players to watch, history - all you need to know about match 2 of 22 in the 2024 Women's Premier League tournament.
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WPL 2024 Mumbai Indians v Delhi Capitals: 5 needed off the last ball in a T20 & other edge-of-the-seat moments
WPL 2024 Mumbai Indians v Delhi Capitals: Harmanpreet Kaur's Player of the Match winning 34-ball 55 gave the Mumbai Indians a fighting chance, and S. Sanjana's massive 6 in the last over took the team over the victory line.
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India vs Australia: Wise Sadhu adds the Titas touch to India’s World Cup preparation
When the stakes are higher, and the room for error nearly nought, could it be pace bowler Titas Sadhu who turns silver into gold for India at long last?
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Year Ender 2023 | Women’s cricket round-up: WPL launches, Lanning retires, ‘critical’ role in Olympics nod
Even as the country mourned the men's team's World Cup final loss, Captain Harmanpreet Kaur and her team kept the hope alive for the Indian cricket fan this year, one game at a time.
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IND vs AUS women’s Test: Richa Ghosh scripts a Test debut to remember
A Test half-century — No.4 Richa Ghosh’s third across formats — in a momentum-changing, and potentially match-winning, 187-ball 113-run partnership with No. 5 Jemimah Rodrigues.
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IND v ENG: With a record win, Harmanpreet Kaur’s India make a case for more women’s Tests
All that form and fervor the likes of Jemimah Rodrigues gained through this rare Test-playing – and winning – experience will come in handy next week, as India Women take on Australia at the Wankhede Stadium.
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IND v ENG: 1st women's Test in India in nearly a decade brings up 50s for Jemimah Rodrigues, Shubha Satheesh
Both Jemimah Rodrigues and Shubha Shatheesh were making their international Test debut at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on December 14, 2023.
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WPL auction: Athapaththu misses out, Ismail ‘Aali Re’, Kashvee, Vrinda, Amandeep’s ‘X-factor’
On Saturday, Kashvee Gautam and Vrinda Dinesh were acquired for an eye-watering Rs 2 crore and Rs 1.3 crore by Gujarat Giants and UP Warriorz, respectively, at the WPL mini auction in Mumbai.
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India vs England Women's Cricket: Head coach Amol Muzumder’s journey into the known unknown
With less than a year to go for the 2024 T20 Women's World Cup in Bangladesh, new head coach Amol Muzumder shares his strategy for the Indian women's cricket team.
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Athapaththu, Marufa, Kashvee: Women's Premier League season 2 auction shortlist decoded
A look at some of the players from the second Women’s Premier League (WPL) auction shortlist who make for an interesting study. Some of the biggest names in the women’s game will go under the hammer on December 9 in Mumbai, with a total of 165 players.
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India Women win Asian Games gold on cricket debut as Sadhu, Mandhana, Rodrigues shine
Sri Lanka settle for silver.
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Cricket at Asian Games 2023: India Women reach semifinal after Malaysia washout
Shafali Verma's 67 and unbeaten knocks of 47 and 21 from Jemimah Rodrigues and Richa Ghosh, respectively, helped India.
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R. Ashwin back in squad for India-Australia ODI series; K.L. Rahul to captain 2 out of 3 matches
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100% in favour of cricket coming into the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics: Leander Paes
Leander Paes and Jhulan Goswami were batting for the reintroduction of cricket in the Olympics around the same time that the IOC Executive Board was preparing the agenda for its 141st IOC Session, to be held at NMACC in Mumbai from October 15-17.
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FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 final: Olga Carmona leads Spain to victory, learns about father’s death after the match
Beating the outstretched left hand of England goalkeeper Mary Earps, Spain captain Olga Carmona’s shot from the left side of the penalty area rifled into the side netting, to score the only goal of the final.
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FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 | ‘You don't lose competitiveness being a mom, you compete more’: Cheyna Matthews
Footballer Cheyna Matthews, a mother of three, on returning to professional football post-partum, how motherhood makes players more competitive rather than less, and role models for moms in sports.
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FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 | 'Saw Manipur women's football potential', says Ex-Mohun Bagan coach Steve Darby
Former Australia, Mohun Bagan, and Mumbai City ISL football team coach Steve Darby on Indian women's football, the state of football clubs in India, choreographing a football match in 'Student of the Year', and dancing with Ranbir Kapoor.
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FIFA Women's World Cup 2023: Largest-ever women's football world cup kicks off; second-half penalty takes co-host Australia to 1-0 victory
The biggest sporting event to hit Australian shores since the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the 9th FIFA Women's World Cup is also the largest-ever women’s football World Cup yet.
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How Women's T20 World Cup teams are bracing for WPL auction
The WPL auction falls on the fourth day of the ICC T20 Women's World Cup.
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Captain Shafali Verma's India squad make history, lift women's cricket and maiden Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup trophy
Nineteen-year-old Shafali Verma became the first woman in history to lead her country to a cricket World Cup triumph, ending an agonising wait for a maiden women’s world title for Indian cricket.
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Women’s Under-19 World Cup Final: Shafali Verma’s India and their tryst with destiny
At a time when the BCCI’s soon-to-be-launched Women’s Premier League has got the world talking about women’s cricket, the foremost figure in the spotlight would be Shafali Verma, a game-changer having injected a never-seen-before brand of big-hitting in Indian women’s cricket, and is the third woman ever to have led India to a World Cup final.
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South Africa Women's Tri-Nation Series: Amanjot Kaur's India debut is a day to remember
Amanjot Kaur’s stand with Deepti Sharma is the highest sixth-wicket partnership for India in women’s T20Is.
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From Bandra to Benoni: The craft and chaos of Under-19 spinner Mannat Kashyap
Mannat Kashyap disrupts, and disrupts well. Case in point: Her four wickets in four overs against Scotland U-19 on January 18, 2023.
