The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), on Friday, announced the 15-member Women’s squad for the upcoming home T20I series against Australia, starting December 09 in Mumbai. Allrounders Pooja Vastrakar and Sneh Rana will not be available for the five-match T20I series. According to the BCCI release, Vastrakar will miss due to an
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Shelley Nitschke, the former international spinner, has been appointed as the head coach of the Australian women’s team, Cricket Australia (CA) announced on Tuesday. Notably, Nitschke was serving as the interim coach after the end of Matthew Mott’s tenure and has been a part of the setup since joining as an assistant back in 2018.
Rachael Haynes, the Australian women’s cricket team vice-captain, has retired from international and state cricket with immediate effect. She confirmed on Thursday that the recent Commonwealth Games gold medal triumph over India in Birmingham was her last appearance for Aussies. Since her international debut in 2009, Haynes went on to play 6 Tests, 77 ODIs
Australia Women captain Meg Lanning, who recently led her team to the Gold medal in the Commonwealth Games 2022, has decided to take an indefinite break from the game citing personal reasons, Cricket Australia (CA) announced in a statement on Wednesday. Lanning has decided to step back from the game after a busy two-and-a-half-year period
Australia Women cricket team’s opening batter Beth Mooney has reclaimed her numero uno position at the ICC Women’s T20I rankings for batters by overtaking team-mate and skipper Meg Lanning. The ICC released the latest Women’s rankings on Tuesday and Mooney jumped one place to take over Lanning at the top following her spectacular run in
Team India bagged silver at the Commonwealth Games Women’s Cricket Competition 2022 on Sunday. The Harmanpreet Kaur-led side came pretty close to clinching gold but ultimately lost out to Australia by 9 runs. Captain Harmanpreet led from the front with a valiant 65, but other batters failed to contribute enough, and India faced a defeat
Team India suffered a heart-shattering loss to Australia in the Gold Medal match of the Commonwealth Games Women Cricket Competition on Sunday. The Women in Blue failed to hold their nerves in the 162-run chase, eventually falling short by nine runs. This was the third occasion when the Indian women’s cricket team had succumbed to
Australia leg-spinner Alana King has impressed one and all in her breakout year that keeps getting better. She had impactful debuts across formats and was part of the recent World Cup winning Aussie squad. King was named in the Cricket Australia central contracts, which was followed by her addition to the ongoing Women’s T20 Challenge
Cricket Australia (CA), on Friday, announced the Australia Women squad for the upcoming inaugural edition of Commonwealth Games Women’s Cricket Competition 2022, starting July 29 in Birmingham. Australia have gone with an unchanged squad and the same group that won the ODI World Cup in New Zealand in April earlier this year. The only change
The two heavyweights in Women’s cricket, Australia and England, are all set to face each other in the highly-anticipating ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 final, to be played at Hagley Oval in Christchurch on Sunday, April 03. England will be aiming to defend their World Cup crown after staging a stunning turnaround to reach
Australia have continued their unbeaten run in the ongoing ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 after defeating Bangladesh by five wickets at Wellington’s Basin Reserve on Friday. Experienced campaigner Beth Mooney smashed an unbeaten 66 to help her side gun down a target of 136 in a rain-affected game. The Meg Lanning-led side lost a
Meg Lanning‘s incredible efforts with the willow steered Australia to continue their unbeaten run defeating South Africa by five wickets at the Basin Reserve in Wellington on Tuesday. Chasing 272, Australia didn’t have a good start, losing the wickets of openers – Alyssa Healy and Rachel Haynes – to be reduced to 45/2 by the
Meg Lanning, Alyssa Healy shined with the willow for Australia during their thrilling six wickets win over India in the 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup on Saturday. The Aussies successfully chased down the massive target of 288 runs and smashed their own record of the highest successful chase in Women’s World Cup fixtures. Previously,
Australian captain Meg Lanning got out due to one of the unluckiest dismissals in cricket in the recently concluded third T20I against India at Carrara Oval in Queensland on Sunday. The Aussie skipper hit the stumps while batting and lost her prized scalp. It all happened during the seventh over of Australia’s innings bowled by
India Women produced a phenomenal display of all-round cricket to end Australia‘s record 26-match unbeaten streak with a two-wicket win in the third and final ODI at Harrup Park in Mackay on Sunday. The Mithali Raj-led side chased down the target of 265 and registered their highest-ever successful run-chase in ODI history. The Aussies, who
India cricket team’s captain Mithali Raj added another feather to her illustrious cap as she completed 20,000 international runs in women’s cricket with her knock of 63 against Australia in the first One-Day International (ODI) at Harrup Park in Mackay on Tuesday. Mithali and Yastika Bhatia (35) formed a crucial 77-run partnership for the third
A wind of thrill passed through every women cricket fan as the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah recently took to Twitter to announce the maiden pink-ball Test slated in September against Australia in their backyard. The world has witnessed only one day-night Test in women’s cricket history, played between
The arrival of the T20 format in cricket has cut down the margin of error, especially for bowlers, irrespective of the conditions. The batting dominated set-up has also impacted the classic One-Day International (ODI) format, where bowlers had some sort of space left to dominate the proceedings. And due to the change in tactics in
In the recently concluded second One Day International (ODI) between Australia Women and New Zealand Women, the Aussies registered a 71-run victory. The Meg Lanning-led side successfully defended 271/7 and also sealed the three-match series 2-0. During the game at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui, Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry displayed a tremendous fielding effort and