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NEW DELHI (AP) -- Top-ranked and seven-time champion Australia will be trying to prevent India from winning a Women's Cricket World Cup at home -- yet again -- when play begins in the tournament next week. India hosts Sri Lanka at Guwahati, India, on Tuesday to start the 31-match tournament which culminates with the final on Nov. 2. Matches are also being played in Sri Lanka. Eight teams are entered -- India, defending champions Australia, England, South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. India's hopes at home India has previously hosted the Women's Cricket World Cup in 1978, 1997 and 2013, but failed to win the tournament each time. Its best performance came in 1997, when the hosts lost to Australia in the semifinals at New Delhi. Led by
WPL 2025 Auction: The WPL 2025 auction is scheduled for December 15 in Bengaluru, with 120 players, including 91 Indians and 29 international stars, up for selection. The event will see franchises compete for spots to build their squads, with 19 available positions remaining. Key players like Tejal Hasabnis, Heather Knight, and Deandra Dottin are among the prominent names. Fans can watch the auction live on Sports18 and JioCinema, starting at 3 PM IST.The much-awaited Women's Premier League (WPL) ...Read More >
Dubai, Feb 5 (UNI) A major shake-up at the top of the latest T20I rankings as a West Indies spinner regains his position as the No 1 bowler, while Australia's Test stars make big gains up the Test ranks. A pair of India's in-form white-ball players have been rewarded for strong performances during the recent home series against England by making giant strides on the latest ICC Men's T20I Player Rankings, according to an ICC media release. Abhishek Sharma produced the best innings of his fledging international career when he smashed a quickfire 135 in the fifth and final match of the series i ...Read More >
New Delhi: Indian team's young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has missed out on a big achievement in his Test career. This left-handed batsman had a chance to complete the fastest 2000 Test runs for India in the first innings of the second Test being played against England at Edgbaston. But Yashasvi could not do so by just 10 runs. Yashasvi got out after scoring 87 runs. So now he has 1990 runs in 39 innings of Tests. If he had scored 10 more runs, he would have become the fastest Indian to score 2000 runs. By doing this, Yashasvi would have also broken the record of Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 8 (ANI): Fast bowlers Mohammed Siraj, Matt Henry, and Jayden Seales are in the running for the ICC Men Player of the Month award for August, while Muneeba Ali, Orla Prendergast and Iris Zwilling form the shortlist for the ICC Women Player of the Month award, as per the ICC website. Siraj burst on the final day of the Test series against England that helped India win in dramatic fashion at The Oval has put him in the reckoning, even as Henry clinical display in a two-Test series in Zimbabwe and Seale superb performances in a memorable home ODI series against Pakist ...Read More >
Visakhapatnam, Sep 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) The ICC Women's ODI World Cup 2025 Trophy Tour completed its Visakhapatnam leg, celebrating the spirit of women's cricket and building anticipation for the upcoming global event. The tour began on September 7 at the ACA-VDCA Stadium, one of the five venues for the World Cup, where senior Andhra Cricket Association officials - including Secretary Sana Sathish Babu and Joint Secretary Boyalla Vijay Kumar - welcomed the iconic trophy. The event brought together 70 women cricketers from the state, offering a moment of inspiration for the next generation. Th ...Read More >
Mumbai, September 16: Team India opener Pratika Rawal has adapted to the team setup very well and quickly. She has been making progress ever since her debut for the Women in Blue, and continued to showcase her batting form against Australia in the first ODI on Sunday. With Shafali Verma struggling to find her mojo, Smriti Mandhana found herself a capable partner in Rawal when the 25-year-old made her debut against the West Indies in December 2024. IND-W vs AUS-W 1st ODI 2025: Beth Mooney, Phoebe Litchfield Shine As Australia Women's Cricket Team Clinches Eight-Wicket Win Over India. The duo h ...Read More >
New Delhi [India] July 1 (ANI): India star opening batter Smriti Mandhana has reaped a reward for her recent century against England and has reached a new career-high rating in the latest ICC Women's T20I batter rankings. Mandhana, who is the No.1 ranked ODI batter, took England to the sword with a superb innings of 112 in Nottingham recently. That helped the left-hander gain one place and move to third on the latest rankings for T20I batters. Mandhana has also reached a new career-best rating of 771 points and has 23 points gap from No.1 ranked player Beth Mooney among T20I batters. Fellow ...Read More >
BIRMINGHAM: India captain Shubman Gill punished England with another hundred in the second Test at Edgbaston while Rishabh Pant made them pay for dropping him twice as the tourists built a commanding position in their quest for a series-levelling win. India were 304-4 in their second innings at tea on the fourth day, a huge lead of 484 runs. Gill was 100 not out following his majestic 269 in the first innings. By taking his tally in this match to 369 runs, Gill set a new record for the most runs scored in a Test by an India batsman, surpassing opening great Sunil Gavaskar's total of 344 aga ...Read More >
IMAGE: Fans pose with the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025 trophy during the Trophy Tour with DP World in Guwahati. Photograph: ICC Guwahati's cricketing spirit took center stage as it played host to the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025 Trophy Tour. Marking a historic first for the city, the tour celebrated not just the game, but the power of sport to bring communities together and inspire the next generation. IMAGE: Students of NPS International School welcome the ICC Women's Cricket Worl ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, SEPT 25: Batsman Karun Nair was dropped Thursday from India's squad for next month's home Test series against the West Indies while Rishabh Pant is still injured. Nair, 33, scored just 205 runs in four Tests in the recent drawn series in England, with one half-century, and loses his place to up-and-coming Devdutt Padikkal. "We expected more from Karun Nair. Can't be just one innings. Padikkal offers more," chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar said in Mumbai. Flamboyant wicketkeeper-batsman Pant misses the series as he continues to recover from a foot fracture sustained at Old Traff ...Read More >
Sept 26 (Reuters) - West Indies suffered a major blow ahead of their tour of India on Friday when fast bowler Shamar Joseph was ruled out of the two-test series due to injury. Uncapped fast bowling all-rounder Johann Layne would replace Joseph in the squad, Cricket West Indies (CWI) said in a statement. "Joseph has been ruled out due to an injury and will be re-evaluated ahead of the Bangladesh limited-overs series," the statement read. The board did not specify the nature of the injury suffer ...Read More >
Chandigarh: As the ICC Women's Cricket WC begins on Sept 30, young fans in Chandigarh are gearing up to support the Indian team. The city's Gen Z crowd, especially women, see the tournament as a moment of pride and empowerment, and many are planning to follow the matches closely.Naman Narayan, a student who has been tracking women's cricket for years, said, "I have been following women's cricket for a long time now. The Indian women's team is one of the most improved sides in world cricket. We ha ...Read More >
Haridwar: A woman politician has been arrested for allegedly letting her boyfriend and others repeatedly rape her 13-year-old daughter in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. The horrifying crime, which occurred between January and March, was exposed when the minor bravely confided in her father, prompting a police investigation that led to the arrest of the accused. The accused was arrested with her boyfriend and one more. According to police reports, the minor was gang-raped multiple times, often in the presence of her mother. The minor, who had been living with her father following her parents' separat ...Read More >
CHENNAI: THE last time India women played an ODI in England, it became the talk of the cricketing world. Deepti Sharma ran out Charlie Dean to secure a 3-0 clean sweep as Harmanpreet Kaur and her team gave Jhulan Goswami a fairytale farewell at Lord's in September 2022. That series marked a new beginning for India women under Harmanpreet without both Mithali Raj and Goswami. It was, in many ways, the starting point of the road to the 2025 ODI World Cup to be played in India later this year. Three years on, Kaur and her team are back in England. They have won the T20I series and now have three ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The International Cricket Council announced a bumper hike in the prize money for this year's women's 50-over World Cup on Monday, making it financially more lucrative than the 2023 edition of the men's event held in India. The winner's purse of $4.48 million is significantly higher than the $1.32 million awarded to Australia when they won the 2022 World Cup and exceeds the $4 million their men's team pocketed after lifting the 2023 World Cup in India. "This four-fo ...Read More >
New Delhi: Veteran Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon has made it clear that retirement is not on his mind anytime soon. At 37, Lyon still harbours strong ambitions -- chief among them is winning away Test series in India and England, along with another World Test Championship (WTC) title before calling time on his career. Lyon played an instrumental role in Australia's WTC Final victory over India in 2023 and was part of the squad that suffered a defeat against South Africa in the most recent final at Lord's. Also Read: Azhar Mahmood Appointed as Pakistan's Acting Red-Ball Head Coach After ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): After the tremendous success of last year, the World Championship of Legends (WCL) gears up for its highly anticipated Season 2, with all eyes on the reigning champions- Team India Champions, once again led by none other than cricketing icon Yuvraj Singh, according to a release from WCL. Co-owned by Bollywood star Ajay Devgn, the World Championship of Legends (WCL) is set for fierce competition as six legendary cricketing nations--India, Australia, England, South Africa, Pakistan, and West Indies--lock horns, each represented by teams packed with cricketing st ...Read More >
Yuvraj Singh turned out to be the Player of the Series as India won the 2011 World Cup India's 2011 World Cup-winning coach Gary Kirsten has made a massive revelation. He has said that all-rounder Yuvraj Singh, who turned out to be the Player of the Series in the quadrennial event, was not a certainity in the team that was set to be picked for it. Yuvraj had a dull 2010, but as fate would have it, he was trusted and picked for the World Cup next year. He repaid the faith by playing an intrumenta ...Read More >
India Test Squad Announcement Live Updates: The Indian team for the Test series against West Indies will be announced on Wednesday (September 24). The series will start on October 2 in Ahmedabad, merely four days after the 2025 Asia Cup final. India Test Squad Announcement Live Updates: The Indian Team for the Test series against West Indies will be announced on Wednesday (September 24) with chief selector Ajit Agarkar and his committee set to name the squad before or during India's 2025 Asia Cup clash against Bangladesh. There are some big questions for Agarkar & Co. to answer, as Rishabh P ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 26 (ANI): England and India A were the only two victors on the first day of ICC Women's Cricket World Cup warm-up matches as rain interrupted play, as per a media release from the ICC. England defeated hosts India while India A got the better of New Zealand, while South Africa's match against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka's warm-up with Pakistan were abandoned. England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt led by example in England's warm-up match against hosts India as she achieved 122 not out off 105 balls before retiring. It proved a significant contribution to England's total ...Read More >
Jay Shah highlighted the significance of the upcoming ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025 for women's cricket. With the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025 just 50 days away, ICC chairman Jay Shah highlighted the significance of the upcoming event for women's cricket and its potential to further promote the sport. During a panel discussion in Mumbai on Monday, former captain Mithali Raj and ex-India allrounder Yuvraj Singh joined India captain Harmanpreet Kaur, vice-captain Smriti Mandhana, batte ...Read More >
New Delhi: Chennai Super Kings captain Ruturaj Gaikwad surprised his fans this time. Playing for Maharashtra against Chhattisgarh in the Bucchi Babu tournament, Gaikwad played the role of a bowler for the first time and took important wickets for his team. Gaikwad, who was out of action for most of IPL 2025 due to injury, appeared in full fitness and rhythm in this match. The specialty of this match was that Prithvi Shaw, who was out of Indian cricket for a long time, played wearing the Maharashtra jersey for the first time after leaving Mumbai. Captain got the gift of success. In this match ...Read More >
BENGALURU, Oct 1 (Reuters) - India will switch back to test cricket mode, after a dramatic Asia Cup Twenty20 triumph ended in bizarre circumstances, when they take on a depleted West Indies side in the opening match of their two-test series starting on Thursday. India say they were denied the chance to lift the Asia Cup trophy after it was removed from the presentation ceremony over their refusal to accept it from Asian Cricket Council chairman and Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Sund ...Read More >
New Delhi, May 22 (PTI) Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Thursday signed New Zealander Tim Seifert as a replacement for England batter Jacob Bethell, who will be unavailable for the IPL play-offs due to national commitments. The replacement will be effective from May 24, the BCCI said in a statement. Seifert, who has scored 1540 runs in 66 T20s for the Blackcaps, has played only three games in the IPL previously and last featured in the tournament in 2022. He will join RCB for Rs two crore. "Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) have signed Tim Seifert as Jacob Bethell is set to leave from TATA I ...Read More >
Baramulla, Jul 5: Hundreds of mourners from Delina and its neighbouring villages Saturday participated in the Muharram procession, the 9th day of the month of Muharram-Ul-Haram at Delina area of north Kashmir's Baramulla district. The procession was one of the series of processions being held in the month of Muharram, the first month of Islamic calendar. Dressed in black and carrying flags bearing religious inscriptions, participants from the villages of Hygam, Bulgam, Bohripora, Syedpora, Uri, Boniyar and other villages marched from new Imambargah through the National Highway NH-1 to the ma ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): India Women's head coach Amol Muzumdar reflected on Indian opener Shafali Verma and said she is 'without a doubt' in contention for the ODI World Cup at home starting from September 30, Dropped after India's group-stage exit at the T20 World Cup last year, Shafali was recalled for the T20I series against England, which India won 3-2. Verma slammed 176 runs at an average of 35.20 and a strike rate of 158.55, including scores of 20, 3, 47 and 31 and a 41-ball 75. 'I think there's a lot of depth in this Indian line-up, a good headache to have as a coaching sta ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], September 30 (ANI): Indian all-rounder Amanjot Kaur became only the second player to register a fifty-plus score for India in a women's ODI while batting at number eight position or below and stitched a valuable 103-run stand for the seventh wicket with an experienced Deepti Sharma to power India to 269/8 in their ICC Women's World Cup opener against Sri Lanka on Tuesday. SL opted to bowl first after winning the toss and with rains interrupting the action, the match become a 47-over a side clash. Also Read | ICC Women's ODI World Cup 2025 Opening Ceremony: Shreya Gh ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 19 (PTI) Veteran India pacer Mohammed Shami, who has been out of action since IPL 2025 and is not part of India's ongoing Test tour of England, was on Saturday named in Bengal's 50-member list of probables for the upcoming domestic season. The list, released by the Cricket Association of Bengal, also includes pacer Akash Deep and top-order batter Abhimanyu Easwaran, who are both currently touring England with the Indian team. Also Read | WCL 2025 Live Streaming in India: Watch West Indies Champions vs South Africa Champions Online and Live Telecast of World Championship of Legen ...Read More >
Shillong, Jul 19 (PTI) Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong has said the state government will press for the retransfer of block I and II from Assam's Karbi Anglong district, asserting that the long-pending boundary issue remains a top priority. Tynsong, who also chairs the regional committee on the matter, said the government is awaiting a response from his Assam counterpart to schedule a joint inspection of the disputed areas. Also Read | Prayagraj Road Accident: Speeding Car Runs Over Women Sleeping Under Flyover in Uttar Pradesh, 1 Dead, 2 Injured. Before the creation of Meg ...Read More >
New Delhi: Mohammed Siraj has been awarded the ICC Men's Player of the Month for August 2025 for his persistent, match-winning spell against England in The Oval Test, which was the only match he was a part of, in the month, as per the official website of ICC. An outstanding spell by Siraj, where he picked up nine wickets at an average of 21.11 across both innings, helped India to not just win the Test from a tricky situation but also made sure the well-fought series ended at 2-2. The fast bowler was also named the Player of the Match in the final Test for his efforts, which included a five-w ...Read More >