Smriti Mandhana is just the fourth women's player and first Indian woman to score a ton in both ODIs and Tests.
Inability to handle pressure in big finals has kept the women's team away from a major ICC trophy
Radha Yadav hailed the impact of bowling coach Narendra Hirwani after registering her career-best figures in India's seven-wicket ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2020 victory over Sri Lanka.
Captain Mithali Raj believes the Indian women's team are more than capable of winning the upcoming ODI World Cup.
Mithali Raj hoped that her side's seamers would be effective, but none except Jhulan Goswami, could do much.
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.
Images from ICC Women's T20 World Cup opener between Australia and India in Sydney on Friday.
Mithali Raj-led India will take on Meg Lanning's Australia at the WACA ground in Perth from September 30 in what will be only the second day-night Test in women's cricket.
The women's selection committee, headed by Neetu David, are inclined towards a female head coach for the national team, which has a lot of work to do before the ODI World Cup in New Zealand early next year.
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.
India captain Mithali Raj's excellent show in the three-match series against England has helped her grab the No.1 position in the MRF Tyres ICC Women's ODI Player Rankings for the eighth time in her stellar 22-year international career.
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.
Indian women's cricket's biggest icon spoke on a range of issues covering her legacy, experiences of playing in pre and post BCCI era
The one-off Test against India, scheduled to be held from 16-19 June, starts an important summer for Knight's team that has an Ashes series followed by a World Cup title defense in New Zealand.
Bumrah receives Polly Umrigar and Dilip Sardesai awards
India will be keen to go one step ahead and claim the title that has eluded them
Smriti Mandhana, teenaged duo of Shafali Verma and Jemima Rodrigues and captain Harmanpreet Kaur headline what Australia coach Matthew Mott described as the most feared batting line-up in the tournament.
Team India needs to ensure that the frequent middle-order collapses are not repeated in the showpiece event.
The Indian women's cricket team would now go through a trial by fire when it make its day-night Test debut against Australia in the one-off game, starting in Gold Coast on Thursday.
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.
Meg Lanning's ruthless Australia women's team registered their 25th consecutive victory in one-day internationals on Tuesday after crushing India by nine wickets in the series opener in Mackay.
It was more out of compulsion that the 15-year-old slugged it out with boys in her bid to play cricket for India, a dream she shared with her father Sanjeev.
Announcing her Test arrival in style, Shafali lived up to her reputation and notched the highest score by an Indian woman cricketer on Test debut
England scored a decent 269 for six on the opening day of the one-off women's Test against India, in Bristol on Wednesday.
BCCI official says while the board has tightened the system further, issues raised by players are swiftly answered by the finance department.
Mithali Raj played a captain's knock to guide India Women to a consolation four-wicket win over England
Smriti Mandhana joked that only debutants Thailand can given them competition when it comes to having fun.
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 Board of Control for Cricket in India should not "wait forever" to start the women's Indian Premier League, said India women's ODI captain Mithali Raj, urging the BCCI to make it happen next year on a smaller scale before gradually developing it.
India dictated terms to mighty Australia who did everything they could to survive the difficult overs under lights and finish the third day of the rain-marred pink ball Test at 143 for four on Saturday.
A young Alyssa Healy grew up batting in a backyard where hitting windows meant getting out. Now, she just breaks glass ceilings. Healy is the latest in Australia's most storied cricketing lineage, with all the pluck and expectation that comes with it.
Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney struck the highest scores in ICC Women's T20 World Cup final history as record-breaking Australia secured a famous fifth title on home soil, in Melbourne, on Sunday. A record-breaking attendance for a women's cricket match of 86,174 watched on as Australia downed first-time finalists India by 85 runs at the MCG, with the openers setting the tone for a clinical performance.
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.
Brett Lee offered his perspective on what the tournament means for women's cricket.
The South African women's team's top-order fired in unison and helped their team clinch the five-match series against India with a comprehensive seven-wicket victory in the fourth ODI, in Lucknow, on Sunday.
Shooter Esha Singh becomes youngest to donate to the PM's relief fund.
Harmanpreet Kaur said with sprightly teenagers like Jemaimah Rodrigues and Shafali Verma in the ranks, the team is 'mentally very fresh'.
The Indian women's cricket team produced another listless batting performance to suffer a second successive loss in the T20 triangular series, going down to England by four wickets, in Melbourne, on Friday. Sent in to bat, Indian batters failed to capitalise on their starts as they struggled to 123 for six in 20 overs with opener Smriti Mandhana emerging as the top-scorer with a 40-ball 45.
The crushing defeat in Sunday's final against Australia will haunt Harmanpreet Kaur and her team but the cricket-mad country reacted with maturity to the setback and support poured in for Kaur's team, which included several teenagers.
The T20 Challenge, to be played during the IPL play-offs, will begin with last year's finalist Supernovas taking on Velocity in the opening game.
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