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.
India's star-studded top four failed to fire against the West Indies, but Shikha Pandey's late show hauled them up to 107 and they defended it superbly, Poonam Yadav starring with the ball to earn a two-run win.
Following is the schedule of Indian contingent on Day 7 of the Asian Games:
Hosts India open their campaign in the ICC women's World Cup against the West Indies at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai on January 31, next year. The tournament, which features the world's top eight women's teams, will be held across five venues in Mumbai from January 31 to February 17.
South Africa's Kapp on compassionate leave after wife van Niekerk dropped from WC squad
ICC women's committee chairman Clare Conner feels the Indian cricket team didn't get enough support from the BCCI which was reponsible for the home side's poor seventh place finish at the recently-concluded Women's World Cup.
After the accident and the kind of rehabilitation that he had to go through, this knock will be right up there, says Rishabh Pant's coach Devender Sharma.
There was plenty of action over the last 12 months that kept the loyal Indian fan interested.
The International Cricket Council on Tuesday introduced the women's edition of the Twenty20 World Cup alongside its men's version. It will be held in England next year. Eight nations, including India, will participate in it. The other contenders are Australia, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies, who all will also compete in next year's ICC Women's Cricket World Cup in Australia, an ICC statement said.
Nicholas Pooran, Jason Holders and Kyle Mayers have declined to join the West Indies roster for the 2023-24 season.
Harmanpreet, who was seen swinging golf clubs during training on Wednesday, stayed back in the team hotel. With the team having a morning game, it is unlikely that it will go for the opening ceremony on Thursday night.
The unlikely and newly-discovered star on the Jharkhand campaign trail is a 39-year-old feisty army brat, who is married to the state's chief minister. Wearing only saris, always sporting sindhoor, a tikka and bangles, Jharkhand political rallies haven't seen anyone like Kalpana Murmu Soren before! She brings both lively energy and style to the podiums/stages she graces, arriving like a breath of fresh air to make fiery speeches that ignite the crowd.
India will begin their campaign against New Zealand in the ICC Women's World T20, to be held in the West Indies from November 9 to 24.
The 27-year-old Arundhati Reddy was the star of the day as she returned excellent figures of 3/19 to help India restrict Pakistan to 105 for eight.
Australia's Alyssa Healy smashed an unbeaten 148 off 61 balls to set a new world record for the highest individual score in women's Twenty20 internationals.
'Indian women reaching the final has inspired a lot of girls in the country. They are on step away from creating history'
In the lead-up to the World T20, India have hit good form, beating hosts Sri Lanka before blanking Australia A at home. What should give them additional confidence going into the opener is the wins against reigning champions West Indies and England in the warm-up matches.
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.
India medium-pacer Jhulan Goswami became the most successful bowler in ICC Women's Cricket World Cup history when she dismissed Anisa Mohammed of the West Indies, in Hamilton on Saturday, for her 40th wicket at the tournament.
'...The talk before the tournament was 'we have set the standard and we want to raise that further.'
The Indian men's team however was beaten 2-0 by Pakistan in the team final at the South Asian Games.
Asia Cup in September but itinerary and venue not announced
Even a whiff of an incident like the violent 1989 shirt-ripping attack on Krishnamachari Srikkanth by a Karachi spectator would be ruinous. It would set back the ties further, derail an ongoing tournament, and harden Indian attitudes on playing Pakistan anywhere at all, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
India women's team head coach Ramesh Powar is hardly perturbed by the 13-run defeat against Pakistan in the Asia Cup as the team management's primary aim was to test the temperament of the younger lot in a pressure situation.
'No one in Sri Lanka could afford to stay at home, everyone came onto the street.'
Life has come full circle for Nobel laureate Professor Mohammad Yunus, who faced persecution during Sheikh Hasina's regime for embezzlement, is now all set to head of the interim government in Bangladesh after she resigned and fled the country.
Mithali Raj will lead a 14-member Indian team in the ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament to be held in Sri Lanka from September 26 to October 7.
India's first match against Sri Lanka was abandoned because of heavy downpour.
Riding on a blistering century (109) by skipper Mithali Raj and a five-wicket haul by off-spinner Pujare Seema, India on Friday thumped Bangladesh by 182 runs in Women's Asia Cup in Sri Lanka.
ICC's Anti Corruption Unit official Alex Marshall said that most of the bookies indulging in corrupt practices are Indians.
Defending champions India made a mockery of Sri Lankan challenge pumping in 20 goals to remain unbeaten in the pool stages, setting up a tricky semi-final clash against Malaysia in the men's hockey competition at the Asian Games in Jakarta, on Tuesday.
With the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and allies far ahead in all the 39 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state and 1 in neighbouring Puducherry, it appears the outcome, for the Stalin-led Dravidian party will be similar to the success of the popular flick Baahubali.
The FIR claimed that one person was killed by the mob as he tried to protect his sister from being raped on May 4 before the two were paraded naked and molested in front of others.
Netherlands' Kingma gets four-match suspension for ball-tampering.
Away from the hype surrounding the men's tournament, the Women's World Twenty20 will start in Galle on Wednesday but India's campaign will kick off a day later when they take on Australia on Thursday.
The ICC flagship event will return to the country after more than a decade.
Jasjeet Kaur led the onslaught with three goals as a ruthless India steamrolled Singapore 13-0 to open their women's Asia Cup hockey campaign in style at the Queen Sikrit Sports Centre in Bangkok on Thursday.
Rumeli Dhar missed her maiden one-day international century but guided India to a thumping 182-run victory over arch-rivals Pakistan in the Women's cricket Asia Cup in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka on Monday.\n\n
Cricketers in the West Indies have not been paid their match fees since January this year due to a severe cash crunch in their governing body. While the players' retainer has been cleared, Cricket West Indies (CWI) has admitted the non-payment of match fees.
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