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BCCI to conduct women’s domestic red-ball tournament in Pune from March 28

The Senior Inter Zonal Multi-Day Trophy will begin in Pune on March 28, days after the ongoing Women’s Premier League ends on March 17. File photo | Photo Credit: ANI Women's red-ball cricket will return to India's domestic calendar after four years when the BCCI conducts a Senior Inter Zonal Multi-Day Trophy in Pune from March 28, the board announced on Friday, March 1, 2024. The move comes after the Indian women's team's return to Test cricket. The side has played Tests against Australia and England in the recent years. Domestic red ball cricket for women was last held in 2018. "It is a welcome step taken by BCCI. The national team has started playing Test cricket again and we need the next generation of cricketers to play red ball cricket at the domestic level," former India pacer A...
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Harmanpreet Kaur’s form a worry for India | Cricket News – Times of India

NAVI MUMBAI: Aiming to prepare for the T20 World Cup later this year, the Indian women’s team will look to quickly brush off it’s ODI 3-0 whitewash at the hands of a rampaging Australia when it meet the same opponents in a three-T20I series starting on Friday. However, bouncing back against the multiple times world champions won’t be easy —Australia enjoy a 23-7 record in 31 women’s T20Is against India, and beat the hosts 4-1 in a T20I series last year. One of the big worries for the India women’s team this season has been the poor form of skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, who has got out for six singledigit scores in her last nine innings across formats, with her top score being 49. Talking to reporters, Kaur said she had been unlucky at times, while revealing that she had spent extra time at ...
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India vs Australia One-off Test: A chance for hosts to show gap is closing, start of new era for Alyssa Healy’s team

When it comes to challenges in women’s cricket, it doesn’t get bigger than facing Australia. The current holders of both World Cup titles, they are the benchmark for excellence, and have been so for a while. As Harmanpreet Kaur and Co get ready to face them over the next three weeks, it feels like the game is at an interesting crossroads. Can India show the world that the advent of the Women’s Premier League and increased exposure to top-level cricket has helped reduce the gap with Australia? Can Australia be the same dominant force at the international level now that Meg Lanning has officially stepped aside? The one-off Test (the first in 40 years in India between these two sides), followed by three ODIs and three T20Is, will play a part in answering some of those questions. The white-...
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India vs England one-off women’s Test: Captains Harmanpreet Kaur & Heather Knight say their teams will look to play attacking cricket to force a result

One of the recent conversations around women’s Test matches has been a need to have five-day games, instead of four-day ones, and it’s a subject on which England captain Heather Knight has a strong opinion.She has stressed on the need for five-day games to drive more results, given women play a lot fewer Test matches than the men. Since November 2017 till this year, only seven women’s Test matches have been played, and only one ended in an outright result – the last one between Australia and England earlier this year, which was a five-day affair. With four-day Tests stipulating 100 overs to be bowled per day, Knight said there has to be some proactive planning to push for a result. “We might have to accelerate the game artificially a little bit. In four days, you have to force the resul...
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India’s leap to the future in women’s cricket begins with T20 rubber against England

On paper, 2023 has been a big year for women’s cricket in India. The inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) franchise tournament was held, and professional contracts handed out to several up-and-coming players. The BCCI also announced its first move towards pay parity, bringing match fees paid to women at par with what the men get.It was also a year when India went 11 months – during which they played a T20 World Cup, a home series against Australia, and an away series against Bangladesh – without a head coach. India’s 2023 schedule includes 18 matches in bilateral series – one more than England’s assignments, but fewer than Australia (25), South Africa (25), and New Zealand (20), the four teams alongside them in the top 5 of international rankings. They are playing even ...
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India at Asian Games 2023, Day 2 schedule: Women’s cricket team eye gold, shooting and rowing medals at stake

On the opening day, India’s rowers and shooters kickstarted India’s medal tally in Hangzhou with a total of five medals between them. Monday will see the medal tally improve, with a guaranteed podium finish in women’s T20 cricket where India take on Sri Lanka in the final. Attention will also be on shooters and rowers to add to the medal tally. Here are the main events to track on Day 2 of the Asian Games (Monday, all times in IST): Cricket: Indian women face Sri Lanka (11.30 am) A familiar sight for cricket fans with another Asian cricket final between India and Sri Lanka. Smriti Mandhana and Co overcame Bangladesh comfortably while Sri Lanka too were impressive in their win against Pakistan. The final is likely to see the return of Harmanpreet Kaur to lead the side as India eye a gold...