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  • India Women cricketers fined for gradual over price in second T20I towards England

    The Indian girls’s cricket crew was on Monday fined 20 per cent of its match charge for sustaining a gradual over-rate towards England within the second Twenty20 International, right here.
    India levelled the sequence with a slender eight-run win.
    According to an ICC launch, match referee Phil Whitticase imposed the sanction after Harmanpreet Kaur’s aspect was dominated to be one over wanting the goal after time allowances have been considered.
    “In accordance with Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to minimum over-rate offences, players are fined 20 per cent of their match fees for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time,” the ICC launch mentioned.
    Kaur pleaded responsible to the offence and accepted the proposed sanction, so there was no want for a proper listening to.
    On-field umpires Ian Blackwell and Paul Baldwin, third umpire Sue Redfern and fourth umpire Tim Robinson levelled the cost.

  • Poonam Yadav, Deepti Sharma assist India degree sequence as England self destruct

    The spin duo of Poonam Yadav and Deepti Sharma scripted India’s dramatic comeback with tidy loss of life over spells that helped the guests degree the sequence with an eight-run win over England within the second ladies’s T20 right here on Sunday.
    England, who wanted 33 runs off 30 balls with six wickets in hand, crumbled underneath the strain generated by Indian spinners who have been complemented effectively by their fielders.
    Shafali Verma’s 48 off 38 balls had allowed India to submit 148 for 4 after being put in to bat.
    Offie Sneh Rana defended 14 runs within the closing over to cap off a formidable bowling effort from the spinners.
    Leggie Poonam ended with figures of two for 17 in 4 overs and Deepti one for 18 in 4 overs. The England innings noticed India effecting 4 run outs.
    The sequence decider shall be performed on Wednesday.
    England have been within the driver’s seat for the most important a part of the chase and had reached 52 for 2 within the first six overs regardless of shedding Danielle Wyatt and the in-form Nat Sciver cheaply.
    Sciver was run out in a somewhat fascinating trend as wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh ran again to impact a direct hit after failing to gather a widish supply.
    In distinction to India’s innings, the lack of early wickets didn’t have an effect on the innings’ tempo as England batters stored getting the boundaries.
    Indian pacers Shikha Pandey and Arundhati Reddy have been wayward and provided Beaumont approach too many brief balls which she duly dispatched via the duvet and backward level area.
    England have been cruising with Tammy Beaumont (59) and skipper Heather Knight (30) within the center however after they have been dismissed off successive balls within the 14th over bowled by Deepti Sharma, it made the duty quite a bit harder for the hosts who nonetheless wanted 43 off the final 36 balls.
    India then tightened the noose on a self-destructing opposition.
    Earlier, India couldn’t capitalise on a blazing begin supplied by Shafali.
    A flurry of boundaries from Shafali helped India race to 47 for no loss in 4 overs.
    The 17-year-old produced the form of hitting she is understood for. She slog swept left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone for a 4 and 6 earlier than smashing pacer Katherine Brunt for as many as 5 boundaries in a row.
    Brunt, who had dismissed Shafali within the first T20, had no reply to the disdainful hitting from the Indian, whose 5 boundaries together with a slap previous the bowler and three within the cow nook.
    Ecclestone bounced again strongly in her following over, bowling a maiden and dropping a tricky return catch of Shafali.
    The extra skilled Smriti Mandhana (20 off 16) was completely happy being a spectator a the opposite finish.
    However, the sport modified after the autumn of Shafali and Mandhana in an area of three balls.
    An off form Harmanpreet (31 off 25), who promoted herself to quantity three, and Deepti Sharma (24 off 27) discovered it powerful to keep up the scoring price.
    The India skipper lastly bought a launch with a heave over deep midwicket off spinner Mady Villiers after coming down the observe.
    The innings had misplaced the momentum created by the openers with India reaching 102 for 2 in 15 overs.
    Running out of time, Harmanpreet deposited leggie Sarah Glenn for a 4 and 6 within the sixteenth over earlier than falling to a superb operating catch by Brunt from lengthy off.
    A number of a lot wanted boundaries from Deepti and Sneh Rana bought India near the 150-run mark. India collected 46 runs from the final 5 overs.

  • India’s batting must be up if we’re aiming at ODI World Cup: Ramesh Powar

    Indian girls’s crew head coach Ramesh Powar is impressed with its fielding and bowling however says the facet should type out its batting woes whether it is to win subsequent 12 months’s ODI World Cup in New Zealand.
    Skipper Mithali Raj was the lone vibrant spot in a lacklustre batting efficiency by the Indian girls’s crew as they misplaced the three-match ODI collection in opposition to hosts England 1-2.
    “I think bowlers brought us back into the game. We have to learn lot many things from this series. I think fielding improved immensely, bowling has improved immensely, batting has to be up if we are aiming at the World cup,” Powar mentioned in a video posted by the BCCI on its twitter deal with.
    Mithali smashed three half-centuries within the three ODIs and have become the very best run-getter in girls’s cricket throughout codecs whereas guiding India to a comfort four-wicket win over England within the third and ultimate ODI right here on Saturday.
    “I think she deserves every praising word out there,” Powar mentioned of the India skipper, who made an unbeaten 75 off 86 balls in a profitable chase of 220.
    “She has been a fantastic servant of the game. 22 years of cricket and I think she is a role model for a lot of our girls. She has single-handedly won us the game. Chasing 220 on a low bounce track, she took us over the line.”
    The 43-year-old from Mumbai was additionally impressed by Sneh Rana, who made a 22-ball 24 and took one wicket throughout the third ODI, having returned to the format after seven years.
    “Sneh Rana is a find of this series. The way she was bowling at Southampton in practice session, we thought we should give her a chance. It was a difficult decision to play two off-spinners but she played her role to the core,” Powar mentioned.
    Rana had additionally scored a half-century on her Test debut to assist India draw the one-off match in opposition to England.
    “I am really happy for her, being an off-spinner I can see the talent, she is a player who can play in crunch situations and that’s what we needed right now, when the big tournaments or big series comes up, we need players of calibre who can take pressure,” Powar mentioned.
    Powar was additionally effusive in his reward for veteran pacer Jhulan Goswami.
    “I think Jhulan Goswami is one of the legends of women’s cricket and her ethics, preparations, commitment towards team, commitment towards dressing room and commitment towards young players, that makes a huge difference to us as a team.”
    India will subsequent tackle England in a three-match T20I collection starting at Northampton on Friday.

  • Shafali Verma turns into youngest Indian to make debut in all codecs

    Opener Shafali Verma on Sunday grew to become the youngest Indian cricketer to make debut throughout codecs after being picked for the primary ODI in opposition to England Women right here.
    On her ODI debut, Verma scored 15 runs off 14 balls earlier than being dismissed by Katherine Brunt.
    The Haryana lady took 17 years and 150 days to make her debut throughout format, making her the fifth youngest cricketer general within the record, headed by Afghanistan’s Mujeeb Ur Rahman.
    Rahman had made his all format debut at 17 years and 78 days, adopted by England’s Sarah Taylor (17 years 86 days), Australia’s Ellyse Perry (17 years 104 days) and Pakistan’s Mohammad Amir (17 years 108 days).
    Verma had scored 96 and 63 in her dream debut within the one-off Test in opposition to England which led to a sensational draw final week. She was the youngest batter to attain two fifties on debut in girls’s Test.
    Verma has scored 617 runs with three fifties within the 22 T20Is that she has performed to this point since making her debut in September 2019.

  • Sneh Rana overcomes private tragedy, harm to script India’s Bristol rearguard

    Moments after Sneh Rana’s astonishing rearguard on Saturday night in Bristol — scoring an unbeaten 80 in her first worldwide outing since February 2016 — that dashed England Women’s hopes of pulling off their first Test win at residence in 16 years, she would name up her elder sister Ruchi in Dehradun and lament: “Wish papa was around to see me bat.”
    Two months in the past, Sneh’s father Bhagwan Singh, 61, who was instrumental in supporting her journey as a global cricketer, handed away after a coronary heart assault. She would go on to turn out to be the primary Indian lady cricketer and fourth within the historical past of the game to register a half-century and prise out a 4-wicket haul on Test debut. Her spectacular efficiency on Day 4 — Sneh placed on an unbeaten 144-run stand with No.10 Taniya Bhatia for the ninth wicket —helped India earn a hard-fought draw after following-on within the first innings, regardless of enjoying their first Test in seven years.
    After the primary day’s play, when she emerged because the decide of the Indian bowlers with figures of three/77 bowling crazy off-spin, Rana would open up on the void brought on by the bereavement of her father. “I lost my father two months back. It was a difficult and an emotional moment for me because he wanted to see me play for India. But unfortunately, he couldn’t. Whatever I will do now, I will dedicate everything to him,” she stated.
    Sneh Rana together with her father Bhagwan Singh. (Instagram)
    Growing up in Sinola village, 20km from Dehradun, a younger Sneh was drawn to outside sports activities and tried her hand at every part from badminton to cricket. “She was a tomboy. Hamesha ladko ke saath khelti thi (always used to play with boys),” Ruchi remembers with a chuckle. When she turned 9, Sneh performed a cricket match with a gaggle of boys at a floor subsequent to their home. Seeing her curiosity in cricket, Singh, who was a personal contractor, acquired her youthful daughter enrolled at Little Master’s Academy. “Our father supported her in all her endeavours,” her sister says.
    Injury setback
    It seemed like Sneh would make a seamless development to the highest degree when she made her India debut in white-ball cricket in 2014, earlier than a knee harm sustained two years later would relegate her to the sidelines. However, Sneh would make an emphatic return to worldwide cricket by means of her splendid all-round performances within the home 50-over competitors this yr, plucking 18 scalps and scoring 160 runs at a strike price of over 120 for the Railways.
    Railways coach Nooshin Al-Khadeer shouldn’t be stunned at Sneh’s sensational Test debut, asserting that the woman from Sinola is blessed with the expertise and temperament to shine on the massive stage. “Having watched her over the last two years, this was not a surprise for me. The big-match temperament is something that has not come overnight for her. It’s an ongoing process. You put players in similar positions at the domestic level, where they can absorb the pressure. In the past, she was sent to bat at times when the team needed her to stick around and perform,” Al-Khadeer tells The Indian Express.

    A narrative overcoming adversities with braveness and dedication.Sneh Rana’s father underwent varied sacrifices to make sure she may follow, she misplaced her him days earlier than choice within the check workforce , and immediately she has saved the check match for India. Hats off. #INDWvsENGW pic.twitter.com/94KSAqOsQX
    — Venkatesh Prasad (@venkateshprasad) June 19, 2021
    In April this yr, the 27-year-old would assist Railways clinch their twelfth home Senior Women’s one-day title, with a three-wicket haul and a breezy 34 not out, after being promoted up the order in opposition to Jharkhand within the ultimate. Sneh’s journey to Bristol had begun on that unforgiving summer season afternoon in Rajkot.
    Focus on health
    The string of successes however, Sneh’s profession was at a crossroads 5 years in the past, when the knee harm had put her future within the sport unsure. In 2016, Al-Khadeer, who was then a selector for the Railways girls’s workforce, says she was stunned when she noticed Sneh after her rehab. “She looked unfit and had put on weight. Back then, I chided her and asked her not to fritter away her potential,” she recollects.
    For Sneh, the highway to reaching full health was arduous. Nevertheless, she would chalk out her health and eating regimen plan and observe it sincerely. This was additionally the time when the absence of Mithali Raj and different worldwide cricketers had left a void within the Railways squad. Sneh would duly step up with a string of stirring performances. However, it didn’t end in an computerized return to the Indian workforce.
    “She refused to give up. Over the last two years, she has improved her skills and fitness levels,” Al-Khadeer explains. Sneh’s rise after spending years on the sidelines is a story of grit and resilience. “She is only 27, with the best years ahead of her,” Al-Khadeer concludes.

  • India title eight debutants in girls’s hockey squad for Tokyo Olympics

    India on Thursday named eight Olympic debutants and as many veterans in its 16-member girls’s hockey squad for the Tokyo Games to be held from July 23 to August 8.
    The squad is an ideal mixture of youth and expertise and contains as many as eight gamers who had represented India within the 2016 Rio Olympics.
    The staff shall be captained by star striker Rani Rampal within the quadrennial Games.
    The eight Olympic debutants embody drag-flicker Gurjit Kaur, Udita, Nisha, Neha, Navneet Kaur, Sharmila Devi, Lalremsiami, the primary participant hailing from Mizoram within the staff, and Salima Tete.

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    — Hockey India (@TheHockeyIndia) June 17, 2021
    Tete had led the Indian staff on the 2018 Youth Olympic Games at Buenos Aires to a silver medal efficiency.
    The eight skilled gamers, who had been a part of the final Olympics, embody skipper Rani, goalkeeper Savita, Deep Grace Ekka, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Monika, Nikki Pradhan, Navjot Kaur and Vandana Katariya.
    These eight gamers have amassed a complete expertise of 1,492 caps between them.
    The chosen squad has only one goalkeeper in Savita, 4 defenders, six mid-fielders and 5 forwards.
    This would be the Indian girls’s hockey staff’s third look on the Olympic Games and their second consecutive outing, with earlier appearances coming in 1980 and 2016.
    Since Rio 2016, the ladies’s staff has been on a gradual rise and gained the Asian Champions Trophy that very same yr, the 2017 Asia Cup and silver medal on the 2018 Asian Games.
    They additionally created historical past by coming into the quarterfinals of the 2018 Women’s World Cup for the primary time.
    “This team has worked very hard over the last few years and has made progress consistently. There is a good mix of experienced players and new talent, which is excellent,” Indian girls’s hockey staff chief coach Sjoerd Marijne stated.
    “We look forward to taking on the best in the world in Tokyo. This is a team with a lot of potential and drive which we hope to channelise our energies to give our best performance.”
    The Indian girls’s hockey staff made historical past in 2016 Rio Games when it certified for the Olympics after 36 lengthy years.
    The squad is at present making ready for the Games on the ongoing nationwide camp on the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Centre right here.
    INDIA WOMEN SQUAD
    GOALKEEPERS: SavitaDEFENDERS: Deep Grace Ekka, Nikki Pradhan, Gurjit Kaur, UditaMIDFIELDERS: Nisha, Neha, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Monika, Nanjot Kaur, Salima TeteFORWARDS: Rani, Navneet Kaur, Lalremsiami, Vandana Katariya, Sharmila, Devi

  • Indian ladies set to play Test in Australia after England

    Indian ladies’s cricket workforce is ready to play a Test in Australia after enjoying one in England subsequent month.
    India, who play their first Test in seven years from June 16 in England, will play one other one through the tour of Australia. They may even play ODI and T20I matches Down Under.
    India final performed a Test towards Australia in 2006.
    “England and Australia are the two teams that still play Tests and going forward you will see a Test slotted in when they visit India or when India tour the two countries,” a BCCI official informed PTI on Tuesday.
    “The idea was floated on the sidelines of the men’s pink ball Test and later discussed in the Apex Council meeting (last month).”
    The tour of Australia isn’t but introduced however Australian pacer Megan Schutt stated earlier this month the collection is deliberate for mid-September.
    The Indian squad assembles in Mumbai on Wednesday forward of the UK tour comprising a Test in Bristol, adopted by three ODIs and as many T20Is.
    The workforce will quarantine for 2 weeks earlier than flying out to UK with the boys’s workforce.

  • India’s tour of England: Shafali, Shikha in all groups, Indrani Roy will get maiden call-up

    Rookie wicketkeeper-batter Indrani Roy from Jharkhand was rewarded with maiden Test and ODI call-up for India’s tour of England subsequent month however senior left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad missed out as she is recovering from COVID-19.
    The 29-year-old Gayakwad can be nursing an harm.
    The Neetu David-led choice panel made a course correction with teen batting sensation Shafali Verma and seasoned pacer Shikha Pandey making it to all three squads after their South Africa house collection snubs.
    “This time Neetu and her colleagues didn’t go for any outrageous experiments. Shafali and Shikha were two of the earliest names listed in all three squads. There was one Swetha Verma of UP whose name was discussed but it was found that she hasn’t even scored 200 runs in a season,” a supply near developments informed PTI on circumstances of anonymity.
    Sneh Rana and Indrani had been two stellar performers within the National One Day competitors and thus bought their call-ups.
    The controversial picks of the final time like Monica Patel, C Prathyusha have been dropped from the squad altogether within the staff choice assembly which was keenly adopted by BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah.
    Indrani was rewarded for her string of scores which included 103 towards Chattisgarh, 86 towards Karnataka and 49 towards Railways within the closing.
    Rana on her half was the ‘Player of the Final’ for her all-round present whereas representing Indian Railways.
    As anticipated Mithali Raj will lead the staff for the one-off Test and three ODIs whereas Harmanpreet Kaur will take over the reins through the three T20 Internationals.
    Test & ODI Squad: Mithali Raj (captain), Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur (vice-captain), Punam Raut, Priya Punia, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Sneh Rana, Taniya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Indrani Roy (wicket-keeper), Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, Radha Yadav.
    T20I Squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain) Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Richa Ghosh, Harleen Deol, Sneh Rana, Taniya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Indrani Roy (wicket-keeper), Shikha Pandey, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, Radha Yadav, Simran Dil Bahadur.

  • India amongst six groups to qualify for ladies’s T20 at 2022 Commonwealth Games

    India is amongst six groups which have certified for the ladies’s T20 competitors of the 2022 Commonwealth Games as cricket returns for the second time within the multi-sporting occasion.
    The six qualifiers who be part of house crew England within the eight-team T20 competitors are Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, and a rustic from the West Indies.
    They have secured qualification on account of their standings within the ICC crew rankings on April 1.
    “As per the qualification course of, the winner of a delegated Qualifying occasion will decide which nation from the Caribbean area will get to take part as athletes will likely be representing their particular person nations and never the West Indies as they’d at ICC occasions.

    Teams which have certified for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games 🎉#B2022 pic.twitter.com/sYJqUJPHxl
    — ICC (@ICC) April 26, 2021
    “The last participating team will be decided through a Qualifying tournament to be held by 31 January 2022, details of which will be announced in due course,” stated the International Cricket Council (ICC) in a press release on Monday.
    Women’s cricket options within the Games for the primary time in 22 editions and cricket for under the second time ever, the primary event being a males’s ODI competitors in Kuala Lumpur in 1998, when South Africa gained.
    The Commonwealth Games cricket match will happen on the iconic Edgbaston Stadium, with tickets set to go on sale later this 12 months.
    India captain Harmanpreet Kaur stated, “It’s nice to be confirmed a spot within the Commonwealth Games. We are raring to go, assured of doing properly after having made the ultimate of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia final 12 months.
    “It is an awesome opportunity for both the women’s game and cricket to make a mark at the prestigious multi-discipline Games and we hope to return with loads of good memories.”
    ICC Acting Chief Executive Geoff Allardice added: “We are extremely proud and excited to be a part of Birmingham 2022 and it’s a unbelievable alternative for us to proceed to develop the ladies’s sport globally.
    “We are committed to maintaining the momentum that saw 86,174 fans packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the final of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup last year and Birmingham 2022 gives us another global stage on which to showcase the women’s game.”

  • India Women going all-out in preparation for Uzbekistan pleasant: Maymol Rocky

    Travelling to Uzbekistan effectively forward of the 2 pleasant matches was a proper determination because the situations are in full distinction to what they skilled again residence says India’s ladies’s soccer head coach Maymol Rocky.
    The Indian ladies’s workforce is about to play two friendlies — in opposition to hosts Uzbekistan on Monday and Belarus on Thursday — on their tour of the central Asian nation.
    “We were able to come here early and train in Uzbekistan. The weather here is extremely cold. There’s a big difference from the one we experienced in Goa. But the girls are going all-out for it. We are doing both morning and evening sessions and take the maximum advantage,” Maymol stated.
    “We have played Uzbekistan before (2019). I’m sure their team has changed since then. Our team certainly has. I’m sure it won’t be an easy match for either (side). Looking forward to it.”
    She stated enjoying in opposition to high quality opponents will assist her aspect put together for the long run objective, that’s preparing for the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup which the nation is internet hosting.
    “Playing more matches will definitely help the team grow together. I think the girls will need more and more matches,” stated Maymol in an AIFF launch.
    “So I think staying together, playing more matches will help us play better games in 2022.”
    The India head coach has named two completely different captains for the abroad excursions to Turkey (earlier this 12 months) and Uzbekistan.
    “In my opinion, everybody on the field should be a captain and a leader. I’ve been trying to build the team for AFC 2022,” she stated.
    “We need to have everyone taking the charge and responsibility for that. The team is quite young, so everybody gets the chance to take the responsibility.”