India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur came much cheaper for Mumbai Indians at nearly half the price of Mandhana at Rs 1.80 crore.
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.
Mandhana (91 off 99 balls) literally drove and pulled her way before missing out on a deserving sixth WODI hundred by nine runs.
Mumbai Indians aim to cap their superb WPL season by defeating Meg Lanning's Delhi Capitals in the final of the inaugural edition of the T20 league on Sunday.
India level series as England pressed self destruct button towards end
The summit clash turned out to be a low-scoring affair and it was not the best advert for women's cricket with strokeplay proving to be extremely difficult on a slow surface.
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.
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.
The new 100-ball format tournament was launched on Thursday, with eight new city-based teams officially named and the first batch of players allocated, including England's red-ball contracted players.
All-rounder Sneh Rana showed nerves of steel by choking runs in the death overs as the India women's cricket team pipped hosts England by four runs to enter the final of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Saturday.
Captain Harmanpreet Kaur says her team committed "no crime" after completing a first-ever whitewash in women's ODIs on English soil with a legal yet debatable run-out.
Group A leaders India were the first to reach the last four and the final place will go to the winner of Monday's clash between hosts Australia and their trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand.
Australia won their seventh ICC Women's Cricket World Cup with a 71-run victory over England in Christchurch.
In a thrilling final, Mumbai Indians handed Delhi Capitals a seven-wicket defeat to win the inaugural edition of the Women's Premier League.
India women couldn't have asked for a better start to the series, defeating World champions England by 66 runs in the opener at the Wankhede Stadium on Friday.
The hosts cannot afford to take England lightly, as the visiting team boasts of some of the big names in women's cricket.
Mithali Raj played a captain's knock to guide India Women to a consolation four-wicket win over England
Harmanpreet, who was the second highest run-maker during the recently concluded ICC Women's World T20 event, gained three slots to reach the third position.
'Whatever we decided, we decided for the team. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, no regrets. I'm proud of the way my girls played through the tournament'
Skipper Meg Lanning's blazing knock helped Australia reach a record total before Megan Schutt led a brilliant bowling performance to beat arch-rivals England by 57 runs in the final of the women's T20 tri-series.
England will meet Australia in the final after the Southern Stars demolished hosts and last edition's winners West Indies by 71 runs.
India will be looking to erase the memories of a heart-breaking World Cup final defeat last year when they take on England in the semi-finals of the ICC Women's World T20 on Friday morning (IST).
Williamson has a chance to topple Kohli at the top of the rankings.
All that's transpired on and off the cricket pitch on Saturday.
Heather Knight's majestic maiden T20I century helped England to a record-breaking 98-run victory over Thailand in the ICC Women's T20 World Cup match at Manuka Oval, in Canberra, on Wednesday. In the day's second match, played later, Pakistan claimed the scalp of the West Indies outplaying the 2016 winners in an eight-wicket victory.
With this win, Australia have now gained a 12-2 lead in the series. The team had already secured the Ashes in the first T20I.
