Hasaranga, Gardner win ICC 'Player of the Month' award
Opener Rachael Haynes smashed a scintillating 130 as Australia scored a 12-run win over defending champions England in a high-scoring ICC Women's World Cup match, in Hamilton, on Saturday. In another match, South Africa handed Bangladesh a 32-run defeat in Dunedin.
Among the all-rounders, Deepti Sharma retained her fourth spot with 359 points in the list headed by Ellyse Perry of Australia with 460 points.
Images from the Women's World Cup match between India and England, in Mount Maunganui, on Wednesday.
Mandhana (91 off 99 balls) literally drove and pulled her way before missing out on a deserving sixth WODI hundred by nine runs.
Ravichandran Ashwin won the ICC men's Player of the Month for February 2021, following his impressive performances in India's Test series victory against England.
England scored a decent 269 for six on the opening day of the one-off women's Test against India, in Bristol on Wednesday.
Jhulan Goswami reached a massive milestone on Wednesday.
In an effort to inculcate and promote diversity, the England Cricket Board hosted an Iftar party in the iconic Long Room at the Lord's cricket ground.
The West Indies pulled off another upset as they beat England by seven runs to secure their first-ever ICC Women's World Cup victory over the defending champions.
India would like to keep the winning momentum going and maintain its stay in the top four
India level series as England pressed self destruct button towards end
Danni Wyatt scored her second one-day international century as champions England crushed South Africa by 137 runs in Christchurch on Thursday to set up a mouthwatering Women's World Cup final against heavyweights Australia.
Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur rekindled the memories of 2017 World Cup with a magnificent 143 not out as Indian women thrashed England by 88 runs in the second ODI in Canterbury on Wednesday, to seal the three-match series 2-0.
Two weeks after the men's team coasted to a 4-0 Ashes triumph against Joe Root's England, holders Australia defended a modest total of 205-9 at Canberra's Manuka Oval to take an 8-4 lead in the multi-format series.
Australia won their seventh ICC Women's Cricket World Cup with a 71-run victory over England in Christchurch.
Captain Harmanpreet Kaur struck an unbeaten 42 following a fine bowling performance to set up India's thrilling five-wicket win over England in the first match of the women's triangular T20 International series, in Canberra, on Friday. Indian spinners -- Rajeshwari Gayakwad (2/19), Deepti Sharma (2/30)and left armer Radha Yadav (1/33) -- restricted England to 147 for seven in stipulated 20 overs, while right-arm medium pacer Shikha Pandey (2/33) accounted for two at the Manuka Oval.
India Women beat England by 16 runs in the third and final ODI to record their first clean sweep in this country.
Teen sensation Shafali Verma is set to make her eagerly-anticipated ODI debut as the Indian women's team seeks white-ball course correction against a strong world champion English side in the first game of the three-match series, in Bristol, on Sunday.
Call it destiny or design, Goswami's last hurrah is taking at Lord's.
Opener Alyssa Healy bludgeoned England's bowlers in a furious 170 as Australia set a mammoth victory target of 357 in the Women's World Cup final in Christchurch on Sunday.
Raj rescued her side from a precarious 27/2 but India's total of 201 for eight was not challenging enough for England
Defending champions England huffed and puffed to a one-wicket victory over hosts New Zealand in a league stage match to keep their semi-final hopes alive at the ICC Women's World Cup, in Auckland, on Sunday.
Defending champions Australia made a dramatic comeback to beat old foes England by five runs and enter their fourth successive women's World Twenty20 final, in New Delhi, on Wednesday.
Sonny Ramadhin, the mystery spinner from Trinidad who bamboozled England in 1950 and the first Indian to play for the West Indies, passed into the ages on Sunday, February 27, 2022.
England were back to their blistering best as they defeated Pakistan by nine wickets to put themselves in a good position to qualify for the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2022 semi-finals.
'A recognition of such high class from the global governing body of cricket in an exceptional and difficult year will motivate me to continue to better my game and contribute to Team India's success going forward.'
Presenters Andrew Flintoff, Kass Naidoo, Zainab Abbas, and Jacqueline Shepherd will lead the coverage. They will be joined by cricketing stars from around the world, including Dinesh Karthik, Stuart Broad
People who aren't accustomed to high-intensity exercise, when thrown to such hard participation, can risk sudden cardiac arrest.
3 Indians included in the squad
Raut jumped eight places to 18th after scores of 62 not out, 77 and 104 not out in her last three matches.
Root, Williamson, Rizwan and Afridi nominated for ICC Men's Cricketer of Year
Shafali Verma has leapfrogged Australia's Beth Mooney with scores of 23 and 47.
A British endurance cyclist has smashed the Guinness World Record for the fastest circumnavigation of the planet on a bicycle, riding 18,000 miles (29,000km) in under 80 days.
India lost all their T20s in New Zealand after winning the ODI series and things are heading in a similar direction against England with two more games to go. Ahead of the second T20 Thursday, the momentum is with the visitors who also won the third and final ODI.
India captain Mithali Raj was on Thursday named in the ICC Women's ODI Team of the Year while left-arm spinner Ekta Bisht was the lone cricketer to find a place in the both the ODI and T20 Teams of the year announced by the world body.
The one-off Test against India, scheduled to be held from 16-19 June, starts an important summer for Knight's team that has an Ashes series followed by a World Cup title defense in New Zealand.
Pacers Shikha Pandey and Jhulan Goswami snapped four wickets each while Smriti Mandhana hit a half-century as India outclassed England by seven wickets in the second ODI to seal the three-match series.
India will be keen to go one step ahead and claim the title that has eluded them
The ECB has been trying to convince both the BCCI and the Cricket South Africa to agree to play a tri-series later this year but nothing has been finalised as yet.
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