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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.
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Shafali Verma is doing her thing at the U-19 Women’s World Cup, playing with power and panache
Questions over the fairness of India playing her in the world U-19 event – however legitimate her inclusion – have only underscored the pedigree she’s built in the international game.
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Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup 2023: India squad, match dates, groups, significance
India U-19 Women's T20 World Cup team, led by Shweta Sehrawat’s 92 not-out and Captain Shafali Verma’s 45, defeated South Africa by seven wickets in their first group match on January 14.
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ICC CEO ahead of first U-19 Women’s World Cup: 'Recent developments in Afghanistan are concerning'
Plus, International Cricket Council CEO Geoff Allardice expects IPL-style women’s league in India to be a ‘huge step forward’ for the women’s game internationally.
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Cricket | 2023 could be India Women’s all-at-once year, after everything, everywhere in 2022
The Under-19 India Women squad, headed to the inaugural U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup next week, looks a watertight set-up one would bet their money on.
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Big decisions: Takeaways for India from the five-match T20I series with Australia Women
Harleen Deol or Jemimah Rodrigues, and other big decisions for selectors of the Indian Women's cricket team for the T20 tri-series in South Africa and the T20 World Cup 2023.
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T20I Women's Final 2022: Gardner-Harris' trouncing of India show what Australia are and the rest of the world isn't
Their personnel make an invincible Australia out of their XI picked on any given day. Australia Women's run avalanche with Ashleigh Gardner and Grace Harris' big-hitting heroics against India Women XI in the T20I final, on Tuesday in Mumbai, is proof.
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'Cricket had become an escape': Devika Vaidya on transcending loss, mental-health battles with India comeback
Being an elite cricketer can often be a lonely place. Being one in India, ever more so.
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Australia star Ellyse Perry scripts memorable Mumbai homecoming ahead of 2023 World Cup, WIPL
The world’s premier allrounder until not so long ago, Ellyse Perry has sent a timely reminder of what she might bring to a starting XI in the 2023 T20 World Cup in February and the Women's IPL in 2023.
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How Smriti Mandhana and Richa Ghosh gave India a stunning win against Australia in 2nd women's T20I
On Sunday, India’s youth and experienced played in sync to stall the march of the world’s best team yet again in a contest for the ages, before a turnout without precedence for women’s cricket in recent years in India.
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T20I series: India Women may have lost to Australia Women, but history was made at DY Patil Stadium — again
Highlights from the first-ever women’s international cricket match at the DY Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai.
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India vs Australia Women's T20I: 5 things to know as the 5-match series kicks off in Mumbai
Equal match-fee policy takes effect; all-rounder Hrishikesh Kanitkar returns as batting coach; series marks left-arm pacer Anjali Sarvani's international debut.
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T20 World Cup for the Blind: Suvendu Mahata hopes to quash the 'blind cricketer' stigma
Born partially blind, Mahata had already had his first brush with cricket before a freak accident in 2001 left him with complete visual impairment at age five. With a potential international debut at the World Cup, the Bengal batting all-rounder hopes to change mindsets.
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Women's Asia Cup returns after a four-year gap; stage set at Sylhet for new-look tournament
As India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia and UAE vie for continental supremacy, a lowdown on the eighth edition of the tournament.
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Final over: Jhulan Goswami's swansong is as memorable as teammates and fans had hoped
Jhulan Goswami became the first woman to complete 10,000 deliveries in ODI cricket. Her career haul across the three formats of international cricket – 355 wickets – is also the most by a woman.
