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Harmanpreet Kaur’s India Eye Maiden T20 World Cup Title, Australia To Chase Sixth Trophy | Cricket News
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Harmanpreet Kaur’s India Eye Maiden T20 World Cup Title, Australia To Chase Sixth Trophy | Cricket News

[ad_1] The much-envied hegemony of Australia is likely to continue but a host of teams, led by India and England, will harbour hopes of breaking it when the ICC Women's T20 World Cup begins Friday. Packed with proven performers, Australia have lifted the trophy five times in seven editions. They have hardly been challenged in the format since winning the last T20 World Cup in 2020. In the last 22 months, they have lost just one T20 and that defeat came against India away from home via a Super Over. The defending champions will no doubt start as favourites once again and will aim for a second hat-trick of titles, which will be a record-extending sixth trophy.The return of skipper Meg Lanning after a break is a massive boost for the holders. Star wicketkeeper batter Alyssa Healy, who is ba...
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Indian Batters Disappoint As Australia Win In Women’s T20 World Cup Warm-up Game | Cricket News
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Indian Batters Disappoint As Australia Win In Women’s T20 World Cup Warm-up Game | Cricket News

[ad_1] File image of India batter Shafali Verma© AFPBatting let India down once again as they collapsed like a pack of cards to suffer a 44-run loss to Australia in a low-scoring Women's T20 World Cup warm-up match in Cape Town on Monday. Asked to field, the Indian bowlers blew away the Australian top order but tail-enders Georgia Wareham (32) and Jess Jonassen's (22) unbeaten 50-run partnership powered Australia to 129 for 8. In reply, the Indian batters were skittled out for 85 in 15 overs.It was the second consecutive time that batting has let down India. The 'Women in Blue' had suffered a similar collapse in the Tri-Series final last week against South Africa. Pacer Darcie Brown (4/17) was the wrecker-in-chief as she cleaned up the Indian top order, taking the vital scalps of Shafali...
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Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh Named In ICC Women’s T20I Team Of The Year 2022 | Cricket News
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Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh Named In ICC Women’s T20I Team Of The Year 2022 | Cricket News

[ad_1] The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday named the Women's T20I Team of the Year (2022), India's opening batter Smriti Mandhana, all-rounder Deepti Sharma and wicketkeeper batter Richa Ghosh have been named in the XI. New Zealand's Sophie Devine has been named the captain of the side. The team has three Indians, while also three players from Australia have been named in the lineup. India's batting superstar Smriti Mandhana had a terrific year with the bat, scoring 594 runs at an average of 33.00 and a strike rate of 133.48. She slammed five half-centuries in 21 innings during the year, including one in the final of the Women's Asia Cup in last October against Sri Lanka.The off-spinner Deepti Sharma bagged 29 wickets in the year, the joint-third-highest by any bowler in wo...
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ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023: Team’s Road To 20-Over Extravaganza | Cricket News
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ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023: Team’s Road To 20-Over Extravaganza | Cricket News

[ad_1] Ten teams will head to South Africa for the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2023, looking to follow in the footsteps of Australia and lift the coveted trophy. Three years after Beth Mooney and Alyssa Healy inspired Australia to the title on home soil, they remain the team to beat. However, nine teams will have other ideas, with just one change from the line-up in 2020 as Ireland takes the place of Thailand, having come through a nail-biting qualifying tournament to book their spot.The first team to clinch a place were South Africa, as hosts, and they were joined in automatic qualifying by the world's top seven teams in the world rankings on 30 November 2021.That meant Australia, the defending champions, India, the 2020 runners-up, as well as England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and...
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‘Controversial’ Run-Out In U19 Women’s T20 World Cup Sparks Debate Among Fans. Watch | Cricket News
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‘Controversial’ Run-Out In U19 Women’s T20 World Cup Sparks Debate Among Fans. Watch | Cricket News

[ad_1] Australia Women's U19 team thrashed Sri Lanka by a huge margin of 108 runs in their previous clash of the ongoing U19 Women's T20 World Cup. Asked to bat first, Australia posted a total of 159/5 where Ella Hayward top-scored with 36 runs. Later, Sri Lanka could not even come close to the target as Lucy Hamilton and Maggie Clark scalped two wickets and bundled out the Lankans for 51. However, the match also had a controversial moment which sparked a debate over the rules of the game.In the 19th over of Australia's innings, Amy Smith unleashed a shot towards the long-off on Rashmi Nethranjalee's delivery and went on for a single. The ball went straight to Dulanga Dissanayake, who made a throw towards the non-striker's end. Hamilton, who was standing at the non-striker's end, tried t...
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Australia’s Alyssa Healy To Miss T20I Series vs Pakistan, Set To Be Available For T20 WC | Cricket News
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Australia’s Alyssa Healy To Miss T20I Series vs Pakistan, Set To Be Available For T20 WC | Cricket News

[ad_1] Alyssa Healy picked up a calf-injury during a tour in India© AFPAustralia wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy has been ruled out of the upcoming three-match T20I series against Pakistan at home as she continues to recover from a calf injury. Healy sustained a calf injury during a recent tour of India. Healy, who filled in as Australian captain during Meg Lanning's absence on Australia's tour to India, will remain with the squad for the series as she recovers from her injury.A statement from Cricket Australia confirmed that The Australian wicketkeeper is expected to be available for the T20 World Cup in South Africa in February.Australia earlier this week announced their T20I squad for the Pakistan series as well as the T20 World Cup. Australia named leg-spinner Georgia Wareham in the ICC Wo...
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Lanning, Healy Spearhead Australia Squad For Women’s World Cup Defence | Cricket News
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Lanning, Healy Spearhead Australia Squad For Women’s World Cup Defence | Cricket News

[ad_1] Australia named a powerhouse squad Tuesday to defend their women's Twenty20 World Cup title, spearheaded by Meg Lanning, Ellyse Perry and a fit-again Alyssa Healy. The five-time champions are heavy favourites for the tournament in South Africa next month with their ranks boosted further by the return of leg-spinner Georgia Wareham after a long injury-related layoff. Wicketkeeper Healy has been struggling with calf problem suffered in December in India, but was also named in the 15-women squad and is expected to playAustralia crushed India by 85 runs in front of more than 86,000 fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to win the T20 World Cup in 2020.Lanning once again leads the side after ending an indefinite months-long break late last month, allaying fears that she had played her l...
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Australia Women Players Pay Tribute To “Special Tour To India”. Watch | Cricket News
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Australia Women Players Pay Tribute To “Special Tour To India”. Watch | Cricket News

[ad_1] Australia women's cricket team defeated India 4-1 in a five-match T20I series, which concluded earlier this week. In the final game, the visitors thrashed the hosts by 54 runs. India had won the second game after a thrilling Super Over at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. Australia, who are arguably the best women's team in the world, once again showcased why they are the team to beat. Despite huge support to the home team, the Aussies played fearless cricket and clinched the series.Following the conclusion of the series, the visitors paid a tribute to the "special tour to India".In a video uploaded on Twitter, Cricket Australia shared glimpses from their tour of India."It's not every day you get to play cricket for Australia, in India! Sights and sounds from a special tour to ...
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Meg Lanning Back To Lead Australia Women After Indefinite Break | Cricket News
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Meg Lanning Back To Lead Australia Women After Indefinite Break | Cricket News

[ad_1] Meg Lanning had announced she was stepping away from the game in August this year.© AFPSkipper Meg Lanning was Friday included in the Australian women's one-day squad to face Pakistan, ending an indefinite months-long break and allaying fears that she had played her last international. The record-breaking 30-year-old announced she was stepping away from the game in August after leading her all-conquering team to Commonwealth Games gold. She said at the time it was to "focus on myself" after a hectic string of successes for Australia and Lanning that included a World Cup triumph.It was unclear whether she would return, but national selector Shawn Flegler said Friday that Lanning was "all in" to take on Pakistan at home next month."We had always hoped she would come back and play, a...
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Harmanpreet Kaur Reveals Why Jemimah Rodrigues Was Dropped For 5th T20I vs Australia | Cricket News
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Harmanpreet Kaur Reveals Why Jemimah Rodrigues Was Dropped For 5th T20I vs Australia | Cricket News

[ad_1] India captain Harmanpreet Kaur praised the bowlers for their bowling in the first 10 overs while underlining the importance of working on death bowling after the loss to Australia in the 5th T20I. The captain said that the team knows the shortcoming of bowlers in the last 10 overs and will work on it during the one-month break that the team will get before heading into the T20 World Cup in February. "We are not giving them easy runs in the first 10 overs but after the 10th over things are changing. We were also thinking about these things. We planned a lot of things but were not able to execute them. We will work on it to get results. We will analyse who can bowl for us after the 10th over and in the death overs. We earlier wanted to work on our first 6 overs and are getting resul...
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