The swashbuckling Surya has been nominated along with England's Sam Curran, Zimbabwe's Sikandar Raza and Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan for the coveted award.
'Harmanpreet Kaur will lead India for the first time in a global event and I think she is up for the challenge both as a captain and as a player'
Smriti Mandhana struck a sublime half-century as India finally produced a good batting display to record a seven-wicket win over Australia in Melbourne on Saturday, keeping their hopes alive for a place in the final of the women's T20 tri-series. Australia posted 173 for 5 courtesy of a quickfire 57-ball 93 from Ashleigh Gardner and Meg Lanning's 22-ball 37 after India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur elected to field at the Junction Oval.
India would like to keep the winning momentum going and maintain its stay in the top four
Tennis legend Sania Mirza doesn't know much about cricket but as an elite athlete for the last two decades, she feels she can help Royal Challengers Bangalore women cricketers to deal with the mental aspect of things.
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.
Spinners Deepti Sharma and Shafali Verma held their nerves during death overs as India pulled off a nail-biting eight-run victory over Bangladesh
Australia women's coach Matthew Mott admitted that his team were kept under the pump all through the Test and 'we never really got back in the game'.
While Smriti Mandhana topped the ODI player rankings for batters with 797 points, Jhulan Goswami was atop the bowlers list with 730 points.
Stafanie Taylor's side was ruled to be two overs short of the target after time allowances were taken into consideration.
India T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur and all-rounder Deepti Sharma came up with match-winning performances for their respective teams in the Women's Big Bash League on Sunday.
Team-wise list of players during WPL auction
Shafali Verma credited skipper Meg Lanning for calming her down and help her top-score in Delhi Capitals opening win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the WPL.
IMAGES from the women's T20I played between Australia and India, at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Friday.
India will go all out to brush off an inconsistent run and seal a semifinal berth in the Women's World Cup
Chasing a challenging 150-run target, Mandhana smashed 52 off 49 balls and shared 57 runs with Jemimah Rodrigues (23 off 26) for the second wicket to set the platform before India lost four wickets in the span of 10 runs and succumbed easily.
Velocity suffered a 16-run defeat in the Women's T20 Challenge but still qualified for the final on the basis of a better net run rate, knocking out victors Trailblazers from the tournament in Pune on Thursday.
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.
Former India women's coach W V Raman says the 25-year-old is a good reader of the game and has already played few years of cricket.
IMAGES from the Women's T20 Challenge game between Supernovas and Trailblazers in Pune on Monday.
Images from the Women's World Cup match between India and England, in Mount Maunganui, on Wednesday.
The five teams -- Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, RCB, Gujarat Giants and UP Warriorz -- will be bidding for 90 players in a list of 409.
Mandhana has so far played two Tests, the first one coming against England in August 2014 and the second against South Africa in Mysore in the same year. India won both matches -- by six wickets and 34 runs -- respectively.
Coach Ramesh Powar made it clear that he want the seniors to accept more responsibility.
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.
Bangladesh captain Nigar Sultana Joty slammed India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur for her conduct, stating that she brought up the umpiring issue as India ended up on the losing side in the third and final ODI.
The Indian bowlers, who underperformed prior to the game, finally got their act together to limit New Zealand to 251 for nine in 50 overs.
India tie third ODI with Bangladesh, series ends in draw
Virat Kohli gave a pep talk to the RCB Women's Team
Esports to breakdancing, Hangzhou will set the trend for future of sport
A dominant India women's team routed Barbados by 100 runs to storm into the semi-finals of the T20 cricket competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Wednesday.
Royal Challengers Bangalore remained rooted at the bottom after five straight defeats in WPL 2023.
India's unpredictable middle-order has repeatedly squandered good starts at the women's T20 World cup. In all the three matches, the bowling unit bailed the side out.
The defeat has dented RCB's prospects of advancing further.
India will play three ODIs in New Zealand beginning January 24 as part of the ICC Women's Championship before playing three T20 Internationals.
Opener Smriti Mandhana's 37-ball 66 went in vain as Australia beat India by 11 runs to win the Tri-Nation Women's T20 Series in Melbourne on Wednesday. Set a target of 156, India were bowled out for 144.
Indian women's cricket team produced yet another clinical display to beat South Africa by 178 runs in the second ODI and clinch the three-match series in Kimberley on Wednesday.
'We have a talented side, and we'll go upwards as we play more'
The UAE team never even bothered to be competitive in its chase, finishing the quota of 20 overs at 74 for 4.
Milkha Singh, 92, best known as the 'Flying Sikh' and most remembered for finishing fourth in the 400m final in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games, was bestowed with the lifetime achievement award.
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