India will meet England in the final of the ICC Women's World Cup on Sunday at Lords.
Supernovas, champions in 2018 and 2019, just about managed to ward off their rivals in a last-over thriller.
The year 2023 will go down as extremely memorable for the Indian sports fraternity as players across various disciplines came together to script history at the Asian Games held in Hangzhou.
The summit clash turned out to be a low-scoring affair and it was not the best advert for women's cricket with strokeplay proving to be extremely difficult on a slow surface.
A captain's knock by Mithali Raj enabled the Indian women's cricket team beat New Zealand by eight wickets in the fourth ODI in Bengaluru and level the five-match series 2-2.
A dominant India sailed into the final of the women's Asia Cup Twenty20 tournament with a seven-wicket drubbing of arch-rivals Pakistan in their last round robin match, in Kuala Lumpur.
It remains to be seen how Powar works alongside Mithali, who had accused him of bias after the Harmanpreet Kaur-led T20 team dropped the veteran batter for the all-important World Cup semi-final against England.
In a letter written to Rai, COA member Edulji accused the chairman and BCCI CEO Rahul Johri of breaking rules while appointing Ravi Shastri as the men's team coach in July last year.
An asset in India's bowling attack, Axar enjoyed a prolific September to earn his first nomination for Player of the Month.
India will go all out to brush off an inconsistent run and seal a semifinal berth in the Women's World Cup
Indian women's cricket team would look to extend its domination in the shortest format and achieve a rare double series win
Jadeja most tested Indian cricketer so far in 2023, 58 samples collected in first 5 months
Harmanpreet Kaur, who did not get to do much in ODIs in which Mithali Raj was captain, will lead the T20 side.
Sajana stamped her mark in her WPL debut itself, smoking off-spinner Alice Capsey for that match-winning six over long-on.
Images from the Women's World Cup match between India and England, in Mount Maunganui, on Wednesday.
Coach Ramesh Powar made it clear that he want the seniors to accept more responsibility.
The auction will feature 56 capped and 109 uncapped players.
Mithali Raj dropped a place to seventh but star opener Smriti Mandhana moved up to ninth position
Team-wise list of players during WPL auction
Mandhana, who has 755 points, slipped to the number two spot after she missed India's recently concluded ODI series
Leg-spinner Poonam Yadav's magical spell helped India beat Australia by 17 runs in the tournament opener on Friday but the Harmanpreet Kaur-led side can't afford to take Bangladesh lightly as their eastern neighbours had beaten them twice in the 2018 T20 Asia Cup.
'Few unfortunate run outs ... but it teaches you that failure is not failure, it's actually a learning. We will take a lot of learning from this and we promised we are going to work hard.'
Mithali Raj was named as the captain of India's 15-member women's cricket squad on Monday for the World Cup to be played in India next month.
The five teams -- Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, RCB, Gujarat Giants and UP Warriorz -- will be bidding for 90 players in a list of 409.
Australian women's cricket team overcame the disappointment of losing the T20I series, as they thrashed India Women by 101 runs in the first One-day International in Canberra.
India will send 117 athletes to the Paris Olympics, starting July 26 in the French capital. This will be India's second-biggest contingent at an Olympic Games after 121 athletes went to Tokyo in 2021. A total of 47 female and 70 male athletes will be part of the Indian contingent at the Games.
India Women succumbed to their sixth consecutive defeat and eighth in a row at home
Mithali Raj played a captain's knock to guide India Women to a consolation four-wicket win over England
Heavy downpour resulted in the match being called off
The three-match T20I series thus ended 2-1 in favour of India, who stuttered after opting to bat before skipper Harmanpreet Kaur's resilient 39 not out (33b; 3x4, 1x6) propped up their total to 138 for five.
A listless Indian team failed in all departments of the game and was handed a five-wicket defeat by Australia in their second warm-up ahead of the ICC women's World Cup, in Mumbai, on Tuesday. India scored 222 for 8 after opting to bat. The Australians chased down the target of 223 runs in 37.3 overs, despite losing a wicket in the first over.
Smriti Mandhana hit a fluent half-century as India continued to hold the upper-hand against Australia, on Day 2 of the one-off Test.
India will play Germany on June 8 in their next match at the same venue.
Images from ICC women's T20 World Cup match between India and Bangladesh, in Perth, on Monday.
Indian women's cricket team would look to continue its supremacy over South Africa when the two sides clash in the second Twenty20 International, in East London, on Friday.
Bangladesh took full advantage of a complacent India as they recorded a comfortable seven-wicket victory in the Women's Asia Cup T20 competition, in Kuala Lumpur, on Wednesday.
Mithali Raj will lead a 14-member Indian team in the ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament to be held in Sri Lanka from September 26 to October 7.
England women's team defeated India by three wickets in the fourth cricket ODI to level the five-match series 2-2.
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Indian women's cricket team's confidence will be high as it heads into a five-game Twenty20 against South Africa.
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