'I just back myself (on) how I bowled, I always bowl like that only, so there is nothing on my mind if someone hits you for a six, I just back myself and I control the middle overs and that is my job.'
'Whoever is playing this series, is looking at T20 World Cup. Of course, if selectors, Ravi bhai or Virat have some players in mind, we can mutually agree and play that player as this is a good platform. If you want to see someone before World T20, this is the only series you have.'
Papua New Guinea secured their place in the ICC men's Twenty20 World Cup in Australia next year with a 45-run win over Kenya, in Dubai.
It solidified Dhoni's legacy as a captain who achieved unparalleled success in ICC tournaments.
In Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting's Indian team for the upcoming T20 World Cup, Rishabh Pant will feature 'every day of the week'.
India's unpredictable middle-order has repeatedly squandered good starts at the women's T20 World cup. In all the three matches, the bowling unit bailed the side out.
Hoping to carry his great run of form to the Asia Cup and World T20, India opener Shikhar Dhawan has said keeping things simple and "doing the basics right" has worked in his favour.
If KL Rahul leads Lucknow Super Giants to their maiden IPL title, he will automatically be rewarded with a spot in the Indian team for the T20 World Cup, reckons head coach Justin Langer, who wants his team's national hopefuls to "concentrate" on doing well for the franchise first.
The second edition of the Women's Premier League, beginning in Bengaluru on Friday with a high-profile match between defending champions Mumbai Indians and runners-up Delhi Capitals, will be optimistic about meeting its existential purpose of giving a wider platform to promising home-grown talents.
For India, Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues (29 off 33 balls) added 57 for the second wicket.
Australia's captain Meg Lanning says her team is going into the Wt20 final against India not just to put on a good show, but win it.
On a high after two easy victories on the trot, including one against defending champions Australia, India will aim to inch closer to a semi-final berth when it takes on New Zealand in the ICC Women's T20 World Cup, in Melbourne, on Thursday.
The senior state association member said there is also a tax rebate issue which is still an ongoing process.
Former India batting coach Sanjay Bangar reckons that next year's IPL is going to be massive for Kuldeep Yadav, saying a good outing in the T20 extravaganza will earn the spinner a place in the T20 World Cup squad.
India would be hosting the global T20 event in October and given the tense diplomatic ties between the two neighbours, the PCB has sought assurances that the visa process of their players and support staff would be dealt with by the ICC.
CSA have however not handed players a final contract
It will be more than a week since Harmanpreet Kaur's side last took to the field when they stride onto the MCG turf in front of a huge crowd, taking on Australia in search of a maiden T20 World Cup title. And the skipper admitted India have struggled to replicate conditions in the middle and used their time off for rest.
Australia goes into the ICC women's T20 World Cup summit clash as favourites, but with India having stunned them on the opening night in Sydney, we could be in for the most electric final yet.
The 12 teams, which make round two of the ICC T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia will gain automatic entry into the event the following year.
The organisation of the Indian Premier League will largely depend on India's COVID-19 situation during that time but with the central government trying to bring in normalcy, the cash-rich league could get a five-week condensed window to go ahead.
Cricket authorities said late last month they were still planning for the World Cup in October, although Cricket Australia has conceded the entire international schedule is up in the air due to the virus.
The Indians are in red-hot form, but history favours England, who have won all the five WT20 matches played between the two sides, when they meet in the semi-finals of the ICC women's World Cup on Thursday.
Opener Beth Mooney's brisk half-century helped hosts Australia beat New Zealand by four runs on Monday to seal the last semi-final spot in the Women's Twenty20 World Cup and keep their title defence intact. India, South Africa and England had already advanced to the knockout stage with Monday's last Group A clash between the trans-Tasman rivals deciding the final contender for the trophy.
Not considered among the top T20 teams in the world, India produced a power-packed performance, winning the opener against a formidable New Zealand side by 34 runs after skipper Harmanpreet Kaur's 51-ball 103.
India's star-studded top four failed to fire against the West Indies, but Shikha Pandey's late show hauled them up to 107 and they defended it superbly, Poonam Yadav starring with the ball to earn a two-run win.
Pakistan eliminated South Africa from the Twenty20 World Cup, beating them by 11 runs, in St Lucia on Monday. The victory kept their own qualification hopes alive. The result meant England, who won both opening Super Eight games, go through to the last four regardless of the outcome of their final match against New Zealand later on Monday.
India's batting sensation Virat Kohli, named player of the tournament, is also the most valuable player of World T20 2016. With a fifty and two wickets, England's Joe Root is just behind him.
West Indies will face a completely different England side in Sunday's World Twenty20 final compared to the one they beat in the Super 10 stage match, captain Eoin Morgan said on the eve of the title clash.
The national team manager Intikhab Alam has blamed captain Shahid Afridi for Pakistan cricket team's recent poor performances, including at the World Twenty20 in India. The report states that Afridi was involved in 'needless controversies' during the World T20. In the five-page report submitted to the PCB and fact-finding committee of the PCB, Alam said that the team failed to sustain the stress and the pressure associated with the world event. "The recent Asia Cup and the ICC World T20 have made it evident that we have critical gaps both in batting and bowling and our fielding keeps on leaking runs, thus releasing pressure. In bowling, with the exception of Muhammad Amir, we do not have a bowler who can win us matches. "Our death bowling also is way below par. And the same goes with our batting line-up, where we do not have reliable pinch hitters and the top and power hitter to clinch us games," Alam wrote in his report, leaked to media.
Bangladesh put in a disciplined performance in the field to restrict New Zealand to 145-8 in a World Twenty20 Super 10 stage match at the Eden Gardens on Saturday.
India produced a clinical performance to thrash Bangladesh by 72 runs in the opening league fixture of the ICC Women's World T20, in Bengaluru, on Tuesday.
MS Dhoni-led team beat England by five runs in a rain-curtailed final in Birmingham to win the ICC Champions Trophy.
England have named uncapped Hampshire all-rounder Liam Dawson in their 15-man squad for the World Twenty20, to be staged in India next month, but there was no dramatic recall for Kevin Pietersen.
Leg-spinner Priyanka Roy's five-wicket haul and Anjum Chopra's gutsy, unbeaten 52-ball 37 helped India beat Pakistan in a Pool B match by five wickets and bounce back into contention in the women's World Twenty20 in Taunton on Saturday. India skittled out Pakistan for a paltry 75 in 19.5 overs, thanks to a clinical display by Roy and pacer Rumeli Dhar (3-13), and then overhauled the target with 14 balls to spare.
While Roy is eager play again, he said safety of paramount importance.
India suffered a dramatic batting collapse in the second part of their innings and were handed a crushing eight-wicket defeat by defending champions Australia in their opening match of the women's World Twenty20, at the Galle International stadium, on Thursday.
England will meet Australia in the final after the Southern Stars demolished hosts and last edition's winners West Indies by 71 runs.
'The aim will be to carry on with the winning momentum rather than thinking about revenge'
Mandhana blasted 9 fours and 3 sixes in her 55-ball innings and shared a 68-run third wicket partnership with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (43 runs off 27) to power India to a competitive 167 for 8 at the Providence Stadium.
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