India's teen sensation Shafali Verma moved up a rung to regain her position at the top of the ICC Women's T20I rankings for batters while her opening partner Smriti Mandhana dropped a spot to fourth.
India's women's T20 team captain Harmanpreet Kaur says Richa Ghosh and Puja Vastrakar's performance is a big positive for India from the multi-format series, which they lost 5-11 to a dominant Australia.
Smriti Mandhana headlined a rain-hit opening day with a career-best 80 not out, which had elegance written all over it, as India finished on 132 for 1 in the one-off Day/Night women's Test against Australia, in Gold Coast, on Thursday.
India's Deepti Sharma also moved up to no 6 while Poonam Yadav remained at eighth.
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Veteran India pace bowler Jhulan Goswami said she was glad to have stood up for the side after the narrow loss in the second ODI against Australia by being a major contributor to the consolation win in the third and final match at Mackay on Sunday.
England needed to win four straight games to lift the trophy - which they did, winning the title after a tied thriller against New Zealand.
Images from the ICC Women's World Cup match between India and South Africa in Christchurch on Sunday.
Top-order batter Georgia Redmayne and fast bowler Stella Campbell received their maiden call-ups.
India's T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur vowed to go all out against Australia in the three-match series, starting Thursday, saying the team needs to win it at all cost.
Virat Kohli shouldn't give up on the drives through the off-side which has got him loads of runs but he does need to be judicious while choosing the right delivery for the shot, said India's batting coach Vikram Rathour.
With the Indian teams doing well so far, they can run into one another in the competition.
'In the T20 format, there are lot of areas where we need to improve and a big thing where we are lacking is our fielding, because if you see the ODI series, (because of) fielding we have given a lot of runs'
India will be keen to go one step ahead and claim the title that has eluded them
Meg Lanning's Australia, long the benchmark in women's cricket, will bid for a record-extending fifth T20 World Cup title after a rocky ride to their sixth final. Harmanpreet Kaur-captained India arrive at the MCG undefeated and without having bowled a ball in the rained-out semi-final against England.
Ellyse Perry, Tahila McGrath and Ashleigh Gardner's impressive all-round display powered Australia to a crushing 141-run victory over New Zealand, their third consecutive, in the ICC Women's ODI World Cup, in Wellington, on Sunday.
In the post-match press conference, Mithali Raj talked about the positives from two Tests that the team has played this year.
Even though the score is below-par against Southern Stars, Vastrakar's clean hits at least gave them something to fight for.
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India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur said she has full faith in her team to do well in future even after Australia outclassed her side by 85 runs in the final of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup, in Melbourne, on Sunday. Unbeaten throughout the tournament, India were outplayed in all departments of the game by defending champions Australia, who clinched their fifth title.
Call it destiny or design, Goswami's last hurrah is taking at Lord's.
Australia will play against Sri Lanka in the first T20I at North Sydney Oval on September 29.
The spotlight among the batters was on Beth Mooney. She rocketed up eight places to break into the top ten, sitting at No. 8, just below compatriot Meg Lanning by nine rating points.
IMAGES from the women's T20I played between Australia and India, at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Friday.
India opener Smriti Mandhana says during The Hundred she just ordered a pink kookaburra ball, just to keep it in her room, because she knew there is going to be a Test match.
The three-time champions Australia scored a 142 for five batting first on a slow pitch and then routed the West Indies in front of their home crowd for just 71 off 17.3 overs.
Smriti Mandhana has Jhulan Goswami, Poonam Yadav and Shikha Pandey for company in the ODI team of the year and all-rounder Deepti Sharma in the T20 side.
Meg Lanning's 30th birthday did not come with a present from her opponents as she was clean-bowled for a duck by a peach of a delivery from Salma, only the fourth time the Australian captain has failed to trouble the scorers in 98 ODIs.
Australian eves once again proved their supremacy in women's cricket as they completed a hat-trick of ICC World T20 titles with a comprehensive six-wicket win over England in the final in Mirpur on Sunday.
All teams now have one wild card pick each to fill their final slots in June.
Ashleigh Gardner scored an unbeaten 33 as Australia beat England by eight wickets to win the Women's World Twenty20 title.
India's semi-final hopes suffered a major jolt after Australia notched up a comfortable eight-wicket win, riding on a superb show by their top-order batswomen in the ICC Women's World Cup in Bristol on Wednesday.
Outplayed in every aspect of the game so far, the Indian women's cricket team desperately needs its top order to strike form and its bowlers to show some spark against an in-form Australia in the second ODI on Friday.
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An email from Cricket Australia's top official Belinda Clark, which is in possession of PTI, indicates that stopping the three is a "pressure tactic" to ensure postponement of the men's ODI series.
Beth Mooney's brilliant unbeaten hundred gave Australia a five-wicket win over India -- their 26th on the trot -- in the second women's ODI, in Mackay, on Friday.
Australia's skipper Meg Lanning bagged the 'Leadership Legend' award. She led her side successfully in all formats of the game.
Smriti Mandhana's ton went in vain as Australia rode on half-centuries by Nicole Bolton (77) and skipper Meg Lanning (61) to register a comfortable six-wicket win over India in the second ODI and seal the three-match series 2-0 in Hobart.
