Tammy Beaumont and Nat Sciver's aggressive unbeaten fifties beat India Women by eight wickets
India skipper Mithali Raj scored a half-century in her teams 16 run win over hosts Bangladesh in the first T20 International in Cox's Bazar on Sunday. Thus the Indian women started their preparations for ICC Women's World T20 tournament on a positive note.
From a strong 167 for none, India lost five wickets for the addition of just 16 runs before ending the day at 187 for five.
For India, veteran Jhulan Goswami picked up two wickets giving away just 20 runs in her 9 overs.
England scored a decent 269 for six on the opening day of the one-off women's Test against India, in Bristol on Wednesday.
The White Ferns chased down the target in 29.2 overs to register a morale-boosting win.
The Indian women's cricket team took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series against the West Indies with an emphatic five-wicket win in the second ODI in Mulapudu, Andhra Pradesh, on Sunday.
Mithali was left out of the team despite being fit and Kaur had gone on to justify the call even after the humiliating eight-wicket loss on Friday. Both the senior players along with manager Trupti Bhattacharya met BCCI CEO Rahul Johri and GM (Cricket Operations) Saba Karim.
Mithali Raj will lead the 14-member Indian squad in the next month's ICC Women's World Cup Qualifiers which brings together 10 sides in their quest to claim the remaining four places in the main event to be held in June next year. The tournament will run from February 7 to 21 at four Colombo venues and the sides finishing in the top four of the Super Six stage will join defending champion Australia, host England, former winner New Zealand and reigning ICC World Twenty20 champion West Indies in the ICC Women's World Cup 2017 from June 26 to July 23.
Opener Smriti Mandhana struck a stylish 67 off 41 balls, helping India post a decent total of 152 for five in 20 overs, but it was not enough as Australia chased down the total in 18.1 overs
Mignon du Preez scored a valiant 90 as South Africa pulled off a consolation seven-wicket win over India to go down 1-2 in the three-match series, which was part of the ICC Women's ODI Championship.
Indian women's cricket team paid the price for a poor batting display against arch-rivals Pakistan, losing the crucial group league fixture by two runs via Duckworth-Lewis method in the ICC World T20, in New Delhi, on Saturday.
Jhulan Goswami said winning a World Cup title remains her ultimate dream
India in their allotted 50-overs posted a target of 192 for the hosts. West Indies got off to a bad start
India were forced to follow on after being dismissed for 231 in the first innings, in the opening session on Day 3, of the one-off women's Test against England in Bristol, on Friday.
India have dominated New Zealand so far in the series and won the second game by eight runs. The third and final ODI will be played on Friday.
Mithali Raj played a captain's knock, scoring an unbeaten 79 but South Africa registered a five-wicket victory in a low-scoring fifth and final women's ODI to seal the series 4-1.
A galaxy of sports stars including currnet India captain Virat Kohli and the legendary Sunil Gavaskar will help raise funds for the underprivileged children battling cancer, on November 18.
What India pacer Shikha Pandey finds objectionable is trying to achieve growth through tinkering of rules rather than robust marketing.
The Supernovas, led by Harmanpreet Kaur, have been invincible so far winning all the previous two editions.
Veda Krishnamurthy hit a strokeful fifty before left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad returned with impressive figures of 4-34 as Indian women defeated West Indies women by 15 runs in the third ODI to complete a 3-0 series whitewash, in Mulapadu, Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday.
Tarak Sinha, the Indian coach with most number of international and first-class cricketers as his disciples, died on Saturday morning after a prolonged illness.
Captain Mithali Raj led from the front with an unbeaten 74 as India women outclassed England by eight wickets in the third and final One-Day International in Nagpur to clinch the ODI series 2-1.
The T20 Challenge, to be played during the IPL play-offs, will begin with last year's finalist Supernovas taking on Velocity in the opening game.
India will meet England in the final of the ICC Women's World Cup on Sunday at Lords.
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur conceded on Monday that the void left by legends like Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami is not easy to fill, but asserted that her young side has grown substantially to be a top contender for this month's women's T20 World Cup.
Indian women were handed a second consecutive loss by New Zealand in Bengaluru, on Friday.
The Indian women's team will tour Sri Lanka from September 11 to 16 for the third round of the ICC Women's Championship, cricket's governing body announced on Monday.
India will play three ODIs in New Zealand beginning January 24 as part of the ICC Women's Championship before playing three T20 Internationals.
ICC Chairman Shashank Manohar had resigned from the post 10 months after taking charge in May 2016, but deferred it a week later. He said the new chairman of world cricket body will be announced in May 2020.
Sri Lanka's Chamari Athapaththu smashed a quick-fire half-century as two-time champions Supernovas reached their third successive final with a narrow two-run win over Trailblazers in a last-ball finish at the Women's T20 Challenge, in Sharjah, on Saturday.
Bisht returned with impressive figures of four for 25 to help Indian women defend a modest a 203-run target
Mandhana is leading the pack with 774 rating points ahead of Australia pair of Ellyse Perry and Meg Lanning.
'Rahane has so much experience, he shared them with us, offered us tips on how to bat'
Indian captain Mithali Raj on Tuesday created a world record by becoming the first player to cross 6000 runs in the history of women's ODI during the ICC World Cup match against Australia in Bristol.
Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur will lead two teams in the one-off Women's T20 Challenge on May 22 ahead of the Indian Premier League's Qualifier 1 match in Mumbai.
After winning the ODI series 2-1, Indian women lost momentum and subsequently conceded an unassailable 2-0 lead against England.
Former India skipper Rahul Dravid says the ICC's new Code of Laws related to the thickness of bats will not have much of an impact on the game of cricket.
Mithali made her ODI debut against England in Milton Keynes in January 1999 and on Friday became the first woman to complete in 200 matches in the 50-over format
Veteran Mithali Raj's retirement from the T20 format paved the way for the induction of youngsters such as 15-year-old rookie Shafali Verma in the Indian women's team for the upcoming home T20 Internationals against South Africa.
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