New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) India pacer Kranti Gaud has asserted that the national team will head into the upcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup with a singular, familiar objective: of becoming champions once again. India are yet to win a Women’s T20 World Cup but go into the mega event, to be played from June 12 to July 5 in England, as current ODI World Cup champions.India, led by Harmanpreet Kaur, had failed to make it to the knockouts of the last edition in 2024 in the UAE, and their best finis…
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Benoni, April 28 (IANS) Laura Wolvaardt continued her record-breaking form with an unbeaten 92 off 56 balls to help South Africa women hand India Women a 23-run defeat in the fifth T20I and completed a 4-1 victory in the five-match series at the Willowmoore Park in Benoni on Monday.Electing to bat first, Wolvaardt hammered 11 boundaries and two sixes as she came up with another brilliant performance, raising 75 runs for the partnership for the opening wicket with Sune Luus, who contributed a run…
Johannesburg, April 24 (IANS) Having already conceded the five-match T20I series with two games to spare, India will enter the fourth game against South Africa, to be played at the Wanderers on Saturday, with an aim to solve a familiar and urgent crisis: a bowling unit looking in tatters at the moment. Despite a resurgent batting performance on Wednesday that saw India post 192/4 – their highest-ever T20I score against the Proteas – the Harmanpreet Kaur-led visitors were listless with the ball t…
Durban, April 19 (IANS) Chloe Tryon and Tumi Sekhukhune picked three wickets each while skipper Laura Wolvaardt and Sune Luus struck commanding half-centuries each as a clinical South Africa Women thrashed a sloppy India by eight wickets and secure a 2-0 lead in the five-match series at Kingsmead on Sunday.From a position of relative comfort at 99/3, India lost their way as the last seven wickets fell for just 33 runs to end at a below-par 147. Shafali Verma, playing her 100th T20I game, hit 57 …
Durban, April 19 (IANS) A sensational half-century by opener Shafali Verma in her 100th T20I game was offset by a dramatic batting collapse as India were bundled out for a modest 147 in exactly 20 overs against South Africa in the second T20I at the Kingsmead on Sunday. From a position of relative comfort at 99/3, India lost their last seven wickets for just 33 runs to end at a below-par total. Their batting implosion handed the momentum back to the Proteas, who now require 148 runs to win and t…
Durban, April 17 (IANS) Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur excelled by hitting 47 and sharing a solid 71-run partnership with Jemimah Rodrigues, but a late batting collapse meant India managed to post only 157/7 in their 20 overs against South Africa in the women’s T20I series opener at the Kingsmead Stadium on Friday.Sent into batting first on a very dry pitch, India got off to a flier thanks to Shafali Verma’s 20-ball 34, but the Proteas clawed back in the back end (including conceding 10 runs off t…
Mumbai, March 24 (IANS) India have named a Harmanpreet Kaur-led 15-member squad for the upcoming T20I away series against South Africa, starting from April 17, with Anushka Sharma getting a maiden call-up.The five-match T20I series will get underway with two games at Durban on April 17 and 19. The action will then move to Johannesburg, which will host back-to-back matches on April 22 and 25, before the series concludes with the fifth and final T20I at Benoni on April 27.The 22-year-old all-round…
Dubai, March 23 (IANS) India seamer Arundhati Reddy has been named the ICC Women’s Player of the Month for February 2026 for the first time in her career, thanks to her exceptional performance that played a key role in India’s memorable victory in Australia. “It’s a real honour to be named ICC Player of the Month, and even more special knowing I was able to contribute to a T20I series win in Australia. Beating Australia on their home turf is never easy, which makes this award even more m…
Mumbai, March 3 (IANS) Senior pacer Renuka Thakur has been ruled out of the only Test against Australia at the WACA Ground in Perth as Kashvee Gautam was named a replacement on Tuesday.”To better manage her workload, Renuka has been advised to rest and will be unavailable for selection for the pink-ball Test. The BCCI Medical Team will be closely monitoring Renuka’s fitness progress,” BCCI said in a statement.”The Women’s Selection Committee has named Kashvee Gautam as her replacement. Kashv…
Dubai, Feb 24 (IANS) Several key players from Australia and India, especially Arundhati Reddy, Shree Charani, and Georgia Voll, have gained significant ground in the latest ICC Women’s T20I Player Rankings ahead of this year’s ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, with standout performances in the recently concluded T20I series between the two sides lifting their standings. India recently triumphed in a tightly contested series against Australia, securing a 2-1 victory on Australian soil, and the succe…