India scored a comprehensive 125-run victory over Ireland to post their third consecutive win in Group A and sealed a placed in the Super Six stage of the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier in Colombo.
Jasprit Bumrah's workload might have increased in Mohammed Shami's absence but India's pace spearhead is in a much better shape right now in terms of fitness to handle the rigours of Test cricket, feels former all-rounder Irfan Pathan.
Images from the World Cup match between South Africa and Ireland being played at Eden Gardens.
A young Indian T20I squad flew to Ireland to play a three match series, beginning this week.
India beat Ireland by 52 runs to enter the semi-finals of the ICC Women's World T20 on Thursday.
Rinku Singh -- who carved a reputation for himself in IPL 2023 with his ferocious batting -- and Rishabh Pant -- who was sadly missing from this year's tournament because he was recovering from the after-effects of the horrific car accident last December -- met up at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru.
Ireland's slim quarter-final hope in the World Cup might have ended with a 131-run loss to South Africa in Kolkata on Tuesday, but skipper William Porterfield said they would take a lot of positives from the tournament.
Aware that any slip-up could pose a serious threat to their quarter-final chances, a resurgent West Indies will take on giant-killers Ireland in an interesting group B match of the World Cup in Mohali on Friday.
After coming up with the most successful run chase in World Cup history against England on Wednesday, Ireland have lived up to their reputation as giant-killers. Can they pull off a surprise against tournament favourites India?
Ireland's Kevin O'Brien blasted the fastest century in a World Cup to guide his country to one of the biggest shocks of the tournament with victory over the old enemy England in Bangalore, on Wednesday.
Musheer Khan did the right thing by imitating his prolific older brother Sarfaraz for everything linked to cricket.
England Test skipper Ben Stokes said he will leave the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League early.
Samson expressed gratitude for the support from the 'Men in Blue' skipper
Thierry Henry's infamous handball in a qualification playoff game for the 2010 World Cup against Ireland will play no role when the two teams meet on Sunday for a place in the Euro 2016 quarter-finals, France coach Didier Deschamps said on Saturday.
Ireland will also order a statutory inquiry, in addition to the medical one, into the death of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar due to pregnancy-related complications after being denied abortion, in a move seen as an attempt to meet her husband's demand for a full public probe.
Images from the World Cup match between West Indies and Ireland played in Mohali on Friday.
He is yet to recover from a groin injury and seemed uncertain to play the one-off one-dayer on Saturday.
Dismissing Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan's suggestion that Ireland will struggle on the spin-friendly conditions in Dhaka, Irish skipper William Porterfield insisted that his team is well prepared to handle any situation when they take on the hosts in their Group B World Cup match on Friday.
Glenn Maxwell scored a 40 ball century on Wednesday.
World Cup 2023 Qualifiers: West Indies, Sri Lanka in separate groups
The third and final T20 International between India and Ireland here on Wednesday was washed out without a ball being bowled.
Jasprit Bumrah grabbed the player-of-the-match award on his international return.
While the newest addition are players from the Northeastern states, Uttarakhand and Bihar, there will also be 232 overseas players, who have thrown their hat in the ring. There are 800 uncapped players with 746 being Indians.
Karuna Jain and Mithali Raj scored half-centuries to guide the Indian women's cricket team to a convincing 107-run win.
She hit 31 boundaries and two sixes in her 145-ball knock, then after a 10-minute nap on the physio's table between innings, took 5-17 as Ireland were bowled out for 135 to give the White Ferns a 305-run win and 3-0 series victory.
He bowled a wicket-maiden in the final over of the 2nd T20I match against Ireland and sealed the match with the figures of 2/15.
Statistical highlights of the second match in the T20 World Cup between the West Indies and Ireland, at Providence
India took apart a diligent but limited Ireland attack to sweep to an untroubled eight-wicket victory at Seddon Park on Tuesday which confirmed they will top Pool B in the cricket World Cup.
Madan Lal said that though it is great that pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah has made his return to the national side for the series against Ireland
Hardik Pandya will be aiming to build on the rich legacy of his predecessor Rohit Sharma when he begins his Mumbai Indians captaincy stint in the IPL 2024 match against Gujarat Titans, a team that the star all-rounder himself marshalled over last two seasons, in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
Protests continue to demand both an immediate Israeli ceasefire and the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
Ireland became the second associate nation to qualify for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20, to be held in Sri Lanka, when they beat Namibia by nine wickets in the second qualifying final in Dubai.
Jasprit Bumrah has declared himself ready for the rigours of the One-Day format as he returns to international cricket following a year on the sidelines due to a back injury.
After the results of the Africa Qualifier, the slots for the 20 participating teams have been filled.
Gaikwad will captain a side full of youngsters in Hangzhou with the main team busy with World Cup preparations at the same time.
The Africans have won just one of their four games and are sixth in Pool B, but victory against William Porterfield's side will put them back in the hunt for a quarter-final place.
With the West Indies in abysmal form in the wake of a crisis over player contracts, Ireland have a good chance to upset the Caribbeans in their World Cup opener on Monday, a result that would surprise no-one, according to their skipper.
Pakistan grabbed a World Cup quarter-final berth on Sunday following their seven-wicket victory against Ireland that also cleared West Indies' last eight passage from Pool B.
Carse joins an England team struggling at the ninth place on the table after just one win in four matches.
Ireland are fourth on 16 points, one point behind Switzerland and France and two adrift of group leaders Israel.
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