India will face their biggest challenge so far in the ICC Women's World T20 when they lock horns with a gifted Australian team in an inconsequential game, in Guyana, on Saturday.
As we celebrate International Women's day on March 8, meet the Indian sportswomen who have made the nation proud with their superlative performances in the sporting arena.
Indian women produced a disappointing batting display as they suffered a 33-run loss at the hands of England in their Twenty20 International match in Canterbury.
Brilliant centuries from Smriti and Harmanpreet were backed by courageous bowling performance as India beat WI by 155 runs.
After suffering a 32-run loss against defending champions England on Sunday, the Mithali Raj led Indian team will have to pull up their socks as they lock horns with Sri Lanka in a must-win game for both teams in the ICC Women's World Cup at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai on Tuesday.
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.
India stuttered in what should have been a comfortable run chase before Harmanpreet took India home with an unbeaten 31 of 32 balls.
The tournament turned out to be the most embarrassing for the 'Women in Blue' as they lost to the minnows twice inside a week.
Captain Mithali Raj believes the Indian women's team are more than capable of winning the upcoming ODI World Cup.
The Supernovas, led by Harmanpreet Kaur, have been invincible so far winning all the previous two editions.
England women's team defeated India by three wickets in the fourth cricket ODI to level the five-match series 2-2.
Skipper Mithali Raj led from the front with an unbeaten knock of 94 as the Indian women's cricket team defeated England by five wickets in their first One-dayer in London.
Captain Harmanpreet Kaur led from the front with an all-round show as India outplayed arch-rivals Pakistan by five wickets to remain the sole unbeaten team in the Women's Asia Cup T20 tournament in Bangkok. Kaur bagged two crucial wickets helping India restrict Pakistan to 97 for seven in 20 overs before taking her team over the line with an unbeaten 26 off 22 balls.
An unprecedented 11 athletes were selected for the country's highest sporting honour.
'What is the use of conducting an inquiry?' 'The BCCI will ask them about leaving out Mithali, but they can get away saying it was the team management's decision.' 'I can tell you nothing will come out of this,' former Indian women's team coach Tushar Arothe tells Rediff.com's Harish Kotian.
Mithali Raj's 73 went in vain as India suffered a five-wicket loss to give to England eves a 2-0 series lead.
Images from the Women's World Cup match between India and the West Indies, in Hamilton, on Saturday.
Images from the ICC Women's ODI World Cup match between India and New Zealand in Hamilton on Thursday.
Shubman Gill was conferred with the Polly Umrigar Best Men's International Cricketer of the Year award for 2022-23.
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Captain Mithali Raj hit an unbeaten 91 as India beat defending champions New Zealand by 40 runs in the semi-final.
India lost by 17 runs and suffered their first defeat in the women's World Cup cricket tournament.
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.
India opener Rohit Sharma also took to the micro-blogging site to offer his condolences.
Off-spinner Diana David wreaked havoc as India crushed Sri Lanka by 71 runs in a lop-sided Group B encounter of the Women's Twenty20 World Cup at Basseterre.
Powar had replaced WV Raman, who had guided the team into the T20 World Cup final in 2020.
India captain Jhulan Goswami discusses the team's preparation and chances at the upcoming women's World Cup in Australia.
India ODI captain Mithali Raj has slipped to the fifth spot.
Laxman represented Team India in 134 Tests, across which he scored 8,781 runs in 225 innings at an average of 45.97. 17 centuries and 56 half-centuries have come out of his bat, with the best score of 281.
After the lone Twenty20 match between India and England was washed out at Taunton, the fourth ODI in Arundel was truncated to a 23-overs-a-side affair, which saw the visitors hurtling to a seven-wicket defeat.
Indian middle order batsman Harmanpreet Kaur took centre stage with an unbeaten 171 and was backed by a disciplined performance by her bowlers as India pulled off a 36-run upset win over six-time world champions Australia.
Indian cricket in 2022 was chaotic, to say the least and messy at most of the time both on and off the field.
The spin trio of Gouher Sultana, debutant Diana David and Poonam Raut bowled India to a series-equalling 30-run win over the visiting English women in the second Twenty20 international in Mumbai on Saturday.
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.
Shafali Verma can dominate all three formats of the game after the teenage opener's fairytale Test debut in England.
In the limited number of ODIs and T20Is she played, Vanitha scored 85 and 216 runs respectively, and was part of India's squad during the women's World T20 at home.
When the two sides met in the inaugural edition of the ICC Women's Championship in Bengaluru in November 2014, South Africa had won the series 2-1.
Mamata Maben and Mithali Raj have been retained captain and vice-captain respectively of the\nIndian women's cricket team for their upcoming one-day series against Australia.
Harmanpreet shared the photo on one of her Instagram Stories
India women's cricket team captain Mithali Raj has attributed poor attendance in international matches to lack of television coverage.
