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IND vs AUS | Harmanpreet’s Women In Blue keen to end gruelling season on a high

Flying high: Harmanpreet enjoys a lighter moment with her teammates at training would be hoping that she returns to form. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI All’s well that ends well. No wonder that Harmanpreeet Kaur’s cavaliers will be hoping to sign off a gruelling five weeks of international cricket with a win against Australia on Tuesday before entering a slumber for international cricket for the Women in Blue. The last game of the home international season — India women’s 11th across formats in 35 days — will be critical on multiple counts. Despite Sunday’s drubbing at the D.Y. Patil stadium to square the series off, the deciding rubber of the three-match T20I series offers yet another opportunity for India to clinch a rare T20I series against Australia. Moreover, the game also offer...
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IND vs AUS | Good chance for Ishan Kishan to cement his place in T20Is

Shot in the arm: Kishan says he has now learnt how and which bowlers to target. | Photo Credit: DEEPAK KR Ishan Kishan was under pressure ahead of the first T20I against Australia, having failed to score a half-century in the last 16 international matches in this format. But on Thursday, with the team in trouble chasing a big total, the stylish left-handed batter hunkered down and made a crucial 58 off 39 balls to help India clinch its highest chase in T20Is. Incidentally, his previous T20I half-century also came at the same Dr. YSR ACA-VDCA ground last year against South Africa. In that game, Kishan scored a vital 54 (35b) as an opener to help India stay alive in the five-match series after being 0-2 down. Even as his stock rose in ODIs — he scored a brilliant double hundred against B...
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India’s Test losses: a result of stereotypes and the quest for balance

A harsh summer, scorching at 30 degrees by English standards, may be sweeping across the British Isles but India failed to turn on the heat in the recently concluded World Test Championship final at London’s Oval. The tepid performance and Australia’s resultant 209-run triumph again dished out an Indian tale of being ‘so near and yet so far’ from a coveted piece of ICC silverware.The defeatist tropes were at play yet again ranging from the insensitive ‘tigers at home, lambs abroad’ dirge on social-media to genuine queries about team-composition, decision-making and batting meltdowns. England, even in summer, can be an amalgam of warm sun, low-slung clouds, hint of rain and perhaps those odd streaks of a nip in the air. Still as a combine they cannot be reasons to bench wily spinner R. A...
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Patchy India will have to lift their game against unforgiving Australia

Having put up a patchy performance in the Women's T20 World Cup thus far, India will have to lift their game drastically against nemesis Australia in the first semifinal here on Thursday. India, who have been among the top teams over the last five years but unable to win a major trophy, have expectedly made the semifinals of another ICC event. However, they have been guilty of self-destructing in the past especially in a knock-out game against England or Australia. Australia beat India in the previous T20 World Cup final at home and more recently at the Commonwealth Games gold medal match in Birmingham last year. Women's cricket in India has grown massively since the final appearance at the ODI World Cup in 2017 and now it is high time the team converts its promise into performance by ...