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Women’s Premier League | Chaffing at its last-place finish Giants opt for wholesale changes

D. Hemalatha is among the few to have been retained by Gujarat Giants. Here she is seen in action during WPL Match between UP Warriors and Gujarat Giants held at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai on 20/03/23. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Gujarat Giants looks keen to make some significant changes for the second edition of the Women’s Premier League, with the franchise heading the list for releasing the highest number of players. Giants, which finished at the bottom of the five-team league last year, has released 11 players, while the runner-up Delhi Capitals has let go just three. The champion Mumbai Indians has released four. Also read | Women’s cricket has finally arrived in India in its full glory!In all, 29 players have been released by the franchises, while 60, including 21 from abroad,...
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WPL | Amelia Kerr, international cricket’s youngest double-centurion, is finding the experience awesome 

MI’s Amelia Kerr and Harmanpreet Kaur celebrate after taking a wicket during the WPL match between Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Giants at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai on March 14, 2023. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Castle Avenue in Dublin may not be among the world’s best-known cricket grounds. But, on June 13, 2018, it witnessed one of the game’s greatest all-round performances.After cracking an unbeaten 232 off 145 balls for New Zealand against Ireland, Amelia Kerr took five for 17 with her leg-spin in the third ODI. She was only 17 then. She thus became the youngest batter, male or female, to score a double hundred in international cricket. Less than a year after her incredible feat, Kerr came to India to play in the Women’s T20 Challenge, the precursor to the Women’s Premier ...
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Kohli’s six off Rauf at T20 World Cup was shot of the year: Sophie Devine

India’s Virat Kohli watches as he hits a six during the T20 World Cup cricket match between India and Pakistan in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP Sophie Devine is one of the hardest hitters in women’s cricket and is a fierce competitor, too. There is to her an endearing lighter side as well.The other night, after scoring her first fifty of the Women’s Premier League, she was speaking about her Royal Challengers Bangalore teammate and seamer Megan Schutt’s batting. “I think she hasn’t got a chance to bat for Australia for five years,” Devine said. “She is going to ask Smriti [Mandhana] to send her up the order.” Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Sophie Devine plays a shot during the match against Delhi Capitals’ in the Women’s Premier League (WPL), at the Bra...
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Women’s Premier League | Delhi dismantles Royal Challengers Bengaluru with a capital show

Shafali Verma and Meg Lanning during the WPL match between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday, March 5, 2023. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Royal Challengers Bangalore looked the team to beat after the auction. Delhi Capitals on Sunday afternoon showed how.A capital performance with the bat at the top of the order followed by a fine effort with the ball helped Delhi win the second match of the inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League by 60 runs on a hot, humid Sunday afternoon at the Brabourne Stadium. An excellent crowd was treated to a superlative display of stroke-play by the Capital openers Meg Lanning (72, 43b, 14x4) and Shafali Verma (84, 45b, 10x4, 4x6) as DC motored along to 223 for two. Meg Lanning in action during ...