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3rd T20I: India Women aim for series triumph over Australia in decider | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Indian women's cricket team seeks to clinch a historic T20I series victory over Australia at home in the series-decider on Tuesday. The three-match series is leveled at 1-1 after the first two games. Harmanpreet Kaur's India has a chance to defeat the reigning world champions at home and kickstart the 2024 T20I World Cup year on a high note.India have only one series win against Australia in their five-series bilateral T20I history, with the triumph coming in an away series in 2015-16. Despite this, India have shown great form, securing historic wins in one-off Tests against both Australia and England earlier in the season.The first game saw India dominating and defeating Australia by a record margin of nine wickets, but the second match portrayed a different narrative as...
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India squad for ODIs, T20Is: Richa Ghosh, Saika Ishaque, Shreyanka Patil named in ODI side for Australia series

Indian women’s team has made multiple changes to its squad for the ODI series against Australian cricket team in the home series which starts from Thursday. India’s side for the T20I series against Australian women’s team, meanwhile, has remained unchanged from the squad that was named for the home series against England earlier this month. Six players — Shreyanka Patil, Renuka Thakur, Richa Ghosh, Saika Ishaque, Mannat Kashyap, and Titas Sadhu — will be coming into the team while eight others — from the Indian side when they last played ODIs (in a tour of Bangladesh in July) have gone out from the squad. India and Australia will play three ODIs and three T20Is in Mumbai after the hosts registered their first-ever win in women’s Test cricket history over Australia on Sunday. The India...
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One-off Test: Confident India take on formidable Australia | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: In the one-off Test against a strong Australia in Mumbai starting on Thursday, the Indian women will be keen to cross off another audacious goal on their bucket list—a first-ever victory in the conventional format—after demolishing England.India, who have never defeated Australia in any of their ten Test matches spanning more than 46 years, would know that this is their best chance to do so given that they are playing on a field that is predicted to suit the spinners.The Indian bowlers, particularly off-spinner Deepti Sharma, displayed incredible brutality last week against England as they won by the largest margin of runs in women's Test history (347 runs) at the DY Patil Stadium. They hope to continue that fiery streak against the Australians as well.However, India's bowlin...
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Watch: Why Smriti Mandhana has a mention in the ‘notebook’ of Shreyanka Patil | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Indian women's cricket team registered a five-wicket win over England in a low-scoring third and final Women's T20 International at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.The consolation victory helped India finish the three-match series with a 1-2 scoreline.Powered by their rookie spinners Shreyanka Patil (3-19) and Saika Ishaque (3-22), India shot out England for 126 in 20 overs.India lost Shafali Verma (6) early, but Smriti Mandhana (48) and Jemimah Rodrigues (29) added 57 for the second wicket to put India's chase on track.Playing for the first time in the series, Amanjot Kaur (13*) showed nerves of steel, stroking left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone for three fours in the penultimate over to seal the win.After the win, the BCCI posted a video clip of an interaction ...
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India vs England: Shreyanka Patil, Saika Ishaque showcase what they can bring to table as Harmanpreet Kaur and Co end series on high

Harmanpreet Kaur’s immediate reaction after India won the third T20I against England on Sunday in Mumbai was to point out how her side had improved with each match in the series. No one personified that more than the team’s newcomers Shreyanka Patil and Saika Ishaque as the hosts won the match by 5 wickets to make the series 1-2.Shreyanka, with her 3/19 and two catches, finished with the player of the match award. Saika too was impressive with her spell of 3/22 as the two spinners stepped up. England rotated heavily after the series was sealed but for India, it was a case of finishing on a high and putting together a performance in front of the thousands who had turned out to watch. Jemimah Rodrigues would later reveal that was what vice-captain Smriti Mandhana told the team as well: ‘M...
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Harmanpreet Kaur says India must build current side for next women’s T20 World Cup | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Indian women's cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur on Friday stated that players selected for the ongoing series against England and the upcoming three-match series against Australia at home will be given ample opportunities, considering the T20 World Cup scheduled for next year.The Indian women's team faces a hectic schedule ahead, including two more T20Is and a one-off Test against England, followed by a one-off Test, three ODIs, and three T20Is against Australia.Highlighting spin bowling as India's significant strength, Harmanpreet expressed the team's intention to provide more opportunities to new players in the upcoming matches.Notably, India has included three new spinners - Shreyanka Patil, Saika Ishaque, and Mannat Kashyap in the ongoing three-match T20I series agai...
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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 vs England women: ‘Cusp of something big’ – Amol Muzumdar begins coaching stint in his backyard with fearless cricket and fitness top of checklist

The Indian women’s cricket team don’t play often at home. In T20Is, they played Australia in December last year. The last ODI home series was back in March 2021. That is despite the fact that they have a T20 World Cup in Bangladesh next year and a home World Cup in the 50-over format on the horizon in 2025. And above all this, it’s been a year since the team’s last official head coach was moved on from the job.It is against this backdrop that Harmanpreet Kaur and Co get ready for a rare bumper month of international cricket at home, with finally a new head coach in place. Mumbai domestic legend Amol Muzumdar will begin his stint at a place where he piled on mountains of runs as India play England and Australia over the next five weeks in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. While there is reason to ...
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Shreyanka Patil, Saika Ishaque among fresh call-ups as India name Harmanpreet Kaur-led squads for England series

Shreyanka Patil and Saika Ishaque were among the new names called up to the senior team as the Board of Control for Cricket in India on Friday named the squad to be led by Harmanpreet Kaur for the T20I series against England that is starting in less than a week from now at Wankhede stadium.The selection committee also named the squads for the two Test matches to follow, one against England followed by another against Australia. Harmanpreet will lead the team as Indian women play a Test match at home for the first time in more than nine years. India had last played two Test matches in 2021, away in England and Australia. In the T20I squad against England, Shreyanka was joined by Mannat Kashyap and Saika in earning fresh call-ups. Pacer Renuka Singh Thakur is set to return after a break f...
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Spinner Saika Ishaque gets maiden call up for T20I series against England – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Left-arm spinner Saika Ishaque, who impressed one and all during the inaugural edition of Women's Premier League, received her maiden call-up for India as she was named in the three-match WT20I series against England starting December 6 in Mumbai.The T20 squad comprised mostly of those who were part of the Asian Games gold-winning squad in Hangzhou, which is a nice blend of seniors and juniors.At one end there are seasoned campaigners like skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and her deputy Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma and Puja Vastrakar, on the other, the selectors have also included rookies like spinner Mannat Kashyap, batters Kanika Ahuja, Shreyanka Patil, talented pacer Titas Sadhu to name a few.The Test team doesn't have too many surprises as Sadh...
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WPL to remain 5-team affair in coming three seasons; home and away format likely from season 2, says IPL chairman Arun Dhumal | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Women's Premier League (WPL) to remain five-team affair for the coming three seasons despite turning out to be a huge success in the inaugural edition itself while BCCI is planning to introduce the home and away format from the next season to increase the fan base for the franchises, said IPL chairman Arun Dhumal on Tuesday.Dhumal feels the home and away games will help teams immensely in building a fan base and the board wants to take that step without wasting any further time."Well begun is half done. It has been a great beginning for WPL and going forward it is going to be much better than what we have seen so far. We have started with five teams but going forward there is scope for an additional team given the pool of the players that is going to come in the years to ...
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Saika Ishaque: From Kolkata’s city slum to becoming WPL star

Saika Ishaque, the left-arm spinner from Bengal, has emerged as one of the stars of the inaugural Women’s Premier League (WPL) by scalping 15 wickets in nine matches for Mumbai Indians Women. She is the second-highest wicket-taker of the tournament after another left-arm spinner — UP Warriorz’s Sophie Ecclestone. On Sunday, when Mumbai face Delhi Capitals Women in the final at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, Saika will be one of the players to watch out for. It has been a turnaround for the cricketer who wanted to quit the game following a shoulder injury and was not able to find a place in the Bengal team for nearly three years. The break in women’s cricket because of the pandemic only made matters worse for her. Saika Ishaque and Amelia Kerr have been unplayable tonight 🫡 Yeh raha p...
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WPL 2023 Eliminator: Mumbai Indians’ batting vs UP Warriorz’s spin | Cricket News – Times of India

MUMBAI: Mumbai Indians were off the blocks at such a searing pace that at one point it looked like no one would be able halt their juggernaut. But two defeats in the last three matches meant they missed out on an automatic place in the final of the Women's Premier League. More importantly, it laid bare the chinks in their armour which the UP Warriorz will try to exploit when they square-off against MI in the Eliminator at the DY Patil Stadium on Friday.MI won their first five matches with ease and outgunned their opponents in both departments. All thanks to skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, Hayley Matthews, Nat Sciver-Brunt and Yastika Bhatia's effort with the bat and Saika Ishaque, Amelia Kerr, Issy Wong along with Matthews and Sciver-Brunt's guile with the ball.#OneFamily, 1️⃣ team, 1️⃣ dream...
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‘The first time I met Jhulan Di I didn’t even reach up to her knee’: Saika Ishaque

Mumbai Indians spinner Saika Ishaque recalled her first meet with her team’s bowling coach Jhulan Goswami when she was a budding cricketer and said in jest that she did not even reach her knee. In a video shared on the MI Twitter handle, Ishaque said, “The first time I met Jhulan Di, I didn’t even reach up to her knee. I have known her since I was that young. Jhulan Di’s support means the world to me.” Recalling her chat with Goswami, the left-arm spinner said, “I have been playing cricket since I was a kid with the boys. What we call ‘Gullyy Cricket’… Back then, I didn’t imagine girls playing cricket (formally). My father’s friend noticed that I play well… He made me join the club. There I met Jhulan Di (Juhlan Goswami). I was mesmerized the first time I saw her, and Jhulan Di even gif...
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WPL 2023: Kate Cross impressed by ‘find of the tournament’ Saika Ishaque | Cricket News – Times of India

Mumbai Indians' left-arm spinner Saika Ishaque currently leads the list of Women's Premier League (WPL) wicket-takers with nine wickets in her kitty, and it has left England pacer Kate Cross mighty impressed. "She's jumped significantly ahead of Hayley Matthews, her teammate. She bowls stump-to-stump, and she changes the angles at which she bowls. She bowled with the cap and I don't think she wants to take it off," Kate was quoted as saying by Sports18 and JioCinema.1/11WPL 2023: Dominant Mumbai Indians register third consecutive winShow Captions<p>Read more on TOI Sports</p><p>Mumbai Indians produced a clinical performance to thrash Delhi Capitals by eight wickets in the seventh match of the Women's Premier League 2023 on Thursday.</p><p>This was Mumbai's ...
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MI vs DC, WPL 2023: Unbeaten Mumbai Indians crush Delhi Capitals to consolidate top spot | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: All-round Mumbai Indians brushed aside Delhi Capitals to continue their unbeaten run in the inaugural Women's Premier League on Thursday. Harmanpreet Kaur and co. inflicted a heavy eight-wicket defeat over Delhi for their third straight win and strengthened their position on top of the table. The defeat was also Delhi's first of the season.3️⃣/3️⃣ 💪A 𝐌𝐈ghty Performance 🔥#OneFamily #MumbaiIndians #AaliRe #DCvMI https://t.co/HdeF6nQBqb— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) 1678380648000Bowlers led from the front for Mumbai as Delhi were rolled over for a paltry 105 after opting to bat first. Pacer Issy Wong and spinners Saika Ishaque and Hayley Matthews grabbed three wickets each in a combined effort to shoot down star-studded Delhi batting line-up in 18 overs.As It HappenedOpeners Yasti...
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Saika Ishaque living her late father’s dream 

Roaring start: Saika scalped four wickets on her WPL debut for Mumbai Indians. | Photo Credit: ANI It was with boys that Saika Ishaque started playing cricket. That is not unusual at all for female cricketers, around the world. What is unusual is that the boys she played with, at an academy in Kolkata, thought that she was a boy.“I had short hair and looked quite like a boy; I was about nine then,” a smiling Saika said during an interview with The Hindu on Wednesday. “When those boys found out that I was a girl, I felt embarrassed. They stopped talking to me.” She is now the talk of the town. With six wickets from two matches in the WPL, she became an early owner of the purple cap. The left-arm spinner took four wickets on her Mumbai Indians debut, against Gujarat Giants, and th...
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Saika Ishaque living her late father’s dream 

Roaring start: Saika scalped four wickets on her WPL debut for Mumbai Indians. | Photo Credit: ANI It was with boys that Saika Ishaque started playing cricket. That is not unusual at all for female cricketers, around the world. What is unusual is that the boys she played with, at an academy in Kolkata, thought that she was a boy.“I had short hair and looked quite like a boy; I was about nine then,” a smiling Saika said during an interview with The Hindu on Wednesday. “When those boys found out that I was a girl, I felt embarrassed. They stopped talking to me.” She is now the talk of the town. With six wickets from two matches in the WPL, she became an early owner of the purple cap. The left-arm spinner took four wickets on her Mumbai Indians debut, against Gujarat Giants, and th...
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Saika living her late father’s dream

Saika has had a dream start for Mumbai Indians, scalping six wickets in the first two matches, in the Women’s Premier League. | Photo Credit: Sportzpics/WPL It was with boys that Saika Ishaque started playing cricket. That is not unusual at all for female cricketers, around the world. What is unusual is that the boys she played with, at an academy in Kolkata, thought that she was a boy.“I had short hair and looked quite like a boy; I was about nine then,” a smiling Saika said during an interview with The Hindu here on Wednesday. “When those boys found out that I was a girl, I felt embarrassed. They stopped talking to me.”She is now the talk of the town. With six wickets from two matches at the Women’s Premier League, she became an early owner of the purple cap. The left-arm spinner...