Smriti Mandhana played a sizzling knock as India entered their third successive Women's T20 World Cup semifinal with a win over Ireland.
There was a huge uproar in the Commonwealth Games gold medal match after Australia cricketer Tahlia McGrath was allowed to play the T20 final against India on Sunday despite testing positive for COVID-19.
'We have a talented side, and we'll go upwards as we play more'
Wicketkeeper Taniya Bhatia, who has an unimpressive strike rate of under 100 in the T20 format, was on Monday named in the Indian women's squad for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
IMAGES from the WPL opener between Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians played in Bengaluru on Friday
Harmanpreet has made only two 50 plus scores since the 2017 World Cup in England where India reached the final.
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.
For India, Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues (29 off 33 balls) added 57 for the second wicket.
Team-wise list of players during WPL auction
Ahead of the inaugural season of the Women's Premier League, Delhi Capitals named Meg Lanning as skipper and Jemimah Rodrigues as vice-captain.
Shubman Gill was conferred with the Polly Umrigar Best Men's International Cricketer of the Year award for 2022-23.
The duo progressed following their fine showing in India's victory over Pakistan in the women's T20 World Cup opener.
The Indian women's team on Sunday lifted its first-ever ICC trophy with a seven-wicket win over England in the U-19 T20 World Cup final.
Out of 409 players, 246 are Indians and 163 are overseas of which eight are from the associate nations.
Skipper Meg Lanning's second consecutive half-century and Jess Jonassen's splendid all-round show powered Delhi Capitals to an emphatic 42-run win over UP Warriorz.
Captain Harmanpreet Kaur's form with the bat will be in focus as the Indian Women's team looks to salvage pride in the third and final ODI in Mumbai on Tuesday.
IMAGES from Day 2 of the one-off Day-Night Pink Ball women's Test between Australia and India in Gold Coast on Friday.
India's captain Mithali Raj says youngsters like Shafali Verma and Richa Ghosh have shown that they have the ability to compete at the highest level and the last few series have helped the team figure out its composition ahead of women's ODI World Cup next month.
The Mumbai batter is the third-highest-ranked Indian after Smriti Mandhana (third) and Shafali Verma (seventh), while captain Harmanpreet Kaur is next, moving to 13th position after gaining two places.
Chasing a stiff target, the formidable Australian opening pair of skipper Alyssa Healy and Mooney gave Australia the start it needed, adding 73 runs in just under nine overs.
Spinner Deepti Sharma bagged her maiden five-wicket haul in Tests to put India in control on Day 2 of the one-off Test.
England's decision to bat first on Tuesday night backfired as Indian bowlers raised their performance by a notch
After hammering a career-best knock in India's win over Ireland in the Women's T20 World Cup, Smriti Mandhana said it was the toughest innings she's played.
Defending champions Australia crushed India by 85 runs in the final to win their record fifth ICC Women's T20 World Cup title, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, on Sunday. Opting to bat, Australia rode on blistering half-centuries by openers Alyssa Healy (75) and Beth Mooney (78 not out) to post a huge 184 for four before their bowlers, led by Megan Schutt (4/18) and Jess Jonassen (3/20) sent India crashing for a lowly 99 in 19.1 overs.
Raj rescued her side from a precarious 27/2 but India's total of 201 for eight was not challenging enough for England
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.
India stormed into the Super Six stage as they overpowered Scotland by 85 runs in their final group fixture of the ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup in Benoni on Wednesday.
India hand Australia first loss of 2022 after thrilling super over
Australia cantered to a six-wicket win against India in the second women's T20 to level the three-match series 1-1.
IMAGES from the Women's Premier League match played between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals in Navi Mumbai on Monday.
The Indian bowlers hardly broke sweat to dismiss minnows Thailand for a paltry 37 before knocking off the runs in just six overs with nine wickets in hand.
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.
Gujarat Giants handed Delhi Capitals an 11-run defeat to pick up only their second win of the inaugural season of the Women's Premier League.
England's players resorted to "constant sledging" to disturb Sneh Rana and company, but the Indians maintained their composure to pull off a thrilling draw in the just-concluded women's one-off Test in Bristol.
Deepti Sharma excelled with the ball before Richa Ghosh produced a fine knock as India cruised to a six-wicket victory over the West Indies in their Women's T20 World Cup Group 2 match in Cape Town on Wednesday.
15 years after the launch of the IPL, a full-fledged women's T20 tournament will get underway in March.
India's star players Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma were on Monday named captains of the three teams for the Women's T20 Challenge to be played in Pune from May 23.
With India already being the most successful side at the men's U-19 level with five trophies, expectations were high from the U-19 girls.
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.
Harleen Deol's (52) confident maiden international fifty was the only silver lining for an otherwise lacklustre display by the Indians, who posted a modest 130 for 6 after being invited to bat.
