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Musical chairs with Indian women’s cricket team coaches | Cricket News – Times of India

Over the past decade, the BCCI has played musical chairs with successive chief coaches of the women's cricket team. Since 2014, when former skipper Purnima Rau was brought in, three others — Tushar Arothe, WV Raman and Ramesh Powar – have also coached the side. Most often, the coaches have exited in the run-up to ICC events. Less than two months before the ongoing Women's T20 World Cup, Powar was moved out and Hrishikesh Kanitkar, first named the batting coach, was eventually made the stand-in chief coach in South Africa. TOI takes a look at the coaches who were at the helm and then exited suddenly...PURNIMA RAU: Following India's 2014 T20 World Cup first-round exit, Rau was replaced by Sudha Shah only to be brought back after two series. From 2015-17, India thrived with their first-eve...
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Women’s T20 World Cup: Back to the drawing board for India women cricketers | Cricket News – Times of India

India fared poorly as a fielding unit in their soul-crushing semifinal defeat to the Aussies. But there are positives too from their campaign...In Cape Town on Thursday, the Indian women cricketers walked out onto the field with the intent of halting defending champions Australia's stranglehold on the ICC Women's T20 World Cup.As a fielding side, their efforts were not a patch on their resolve. Australia's two top run getters - Beth Mooney and Meg Lanning - were handed three lifelines. Fielding was sloppy resulting in at least 15 runs gifted and the bowling for the most part was pedestrian. Barely 22 balls into their batting, India were down by three wickets. The popular notion was - they had choked yet again.But that was before the Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues show. Their 37-...