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  • India Women lose first T20I as South Africa financial institution on Anneke Bosch’s all-round present

    All-rounder Anneke Bosch first pegged the Indian ladies with a few wickets after which smashed an unbeaten 66 off 48 balls to make sure a simple eight-wicket victory for South Africa ladies within the first T20I on Saturday.
    Harleen Deol’s (52) assured maiden worldwide fifty was the one silver lining for an in any other case lacklustre show by the Indians who posted a modest 130 for six after being invited to bat.
    The South Africans chased down the goal simply with 5 balls to spare with opener Bosch (66 not out) and captain Sune Luus (43 off 49 balls) sharing 90 runs for the second wicket. SA reached to 133 for two in 19.1 overs.

    South Africa win the primary #INDvSA T20I by eight wickets.
    Anne Bosch top-scored for her aspect with a superb 48-ball 66* 👏
    📸 @OfficialCSA | https://t.co/7E2RIg3dQB pic.twitter.com/hfVkchFVDd
    — ICC (@ICC) March 20, 2021
    India scored simply 26 runs from the final 5 overs and that’s the place they once more misplaced the match with distinct lack of energy hitters.
    The Indian bowlers by no means put any type of stress on the Bosch-Luus duo for a protracted stretch within the match.
    Bosch hit 9 fours and a six in her 48-ball unbeaten innings after she took 2 for 11 throughout Indian innings.
    Poor fielding additionally price India expensive as they conceded runs on the sphere.
    India removed harmful South African opener Lizelle Lee (8) who had topped the batting charts within the previous ODI collection with pacewoman Arundhati Reddy (1/20) eradicating her within the third over as she miscued her shot.
    But Bosch and Luus denied the Indians any additional success until the sixteenth over with a stable and flawless batting show.
    Lee’s early dismissal put the South Africans on the backfoot however Luus and Bosch negated the early Indian benefit. Luss hit Reddy for a six and a 4 in consecutive deliveries within the fifth over as South Africa received to 36 for 1 from powerplay overs.
    The duo gained in confidence step by step because the Indian bowlers couldn’t discover a approach to break the partnership.South Africa wanted 68 from the final 10 overs they usually saved up the tempo with out taking an excessive amount of dangers, needing 33 from the final 5 overs.

    Rajeshwari Gayakwad dropped Luus, failing to carry on a simple catch within the sixteenth over however the subsequent ball, the South Africa captain was dismissed by Deol (1/21).
    But by the point Luus was out, the match had already tilted in South Africa’s favour. SA wanted 14 from the ultimate two overs however the equation was down to 2 from the ultimate over and Bosch hit a 4 to win the match in model.
    Earlier, rookie batter Harleen Deol top-scored with a assured 52 in India’s 130 for six.
    The 22-year-old Deol hit six fours in her 47-ball innings to attain the majority of India’s runs after being invited to bat.
    She shared 60 runs for the third wicket with Jemimah Rodrigues (30) to assist India get better from 11 for one after the autumn of stand-in-captain Smriti Mandhana (11) within the second over.
    Young expertise Shafali Verma, who was not within the squad for the previous ODI collection which India misplaced 1-4, made 23 from 22 balls with the assistance of two fours advert a six.
    Mandhana, who was main the aspect after Harmanpreet Kaur suffered a hip damage, hit two fours within the first over off N Mlaba however perished within the second over, providing a catch to Bosch at mid off.
    India had been 41 for one after powerplay and reached to 59 for two on the midway mark.
    Shafali, who was off the mark with a six within the second ball she confronted, couldn’t resist coming down the monitor however missed the ball utterly to get stumped-out within the tenth over.
    India took 13 runs from Sune Luus in eleventh over with Deol hitting two fours.
    Deol reached her maiden fifty off 44 balls.
    But simply as India appeared to speed up the innings, set batters Shafali and Rodrigues fell within the house of three balls within the 18th over and that put paid to India’s hopes of posting a much bigger whole.
    Both went for giant hits however didn’t have sufficient energy to clear the fielder.

  • ‘I try to stay relevant’: Mithali Raj after scoring 10,000 worldwide runs

    Indian captain Mithali Raj on Friday mentioned she has all the time seemed to evolve and keep related in a altering girls’s recreation, an method that has introduced her 10,000 runs throughout codecs in worldwide cricket.
    The 38-year-old veteran ODI skipper, who has been taking part in within the top-flight for greater than twenty years, is the primary Indian girl cricketer and second internationally to succeed in the milestone.
    Mithali achieved the feat with a boundary off Anne Bosch within the twenty eighth over of India’s innings throughout the third ODI towards South Africa right here.
    “As long as I get an opportunity to bat, it has to be counted and that has given me a lot of experience and exposure to work on my game over the years with the changing standards in women’s game and trying to be relevant in the international circuit,” Mithali mentioned.
    The ODI captain mentioned being constant mattered extra to her than particular person milestones.
    “When you play for this long, you go through different milestones. This being one of it, the key for me has always been consistency and I have always believed in scoring runs each time I go out to bat, whether it is domestic or international cricket,” she mentioned.
    South African opener Lizelle Lee single-handedly destroyed India’s probabilities with a career-best unbeaten 132 as the house crew misplaced by six runs by way of the Duckworth-Lewis (DLS) methodology within the rain-marred third ODI of the five-match collection.
    Asked what she meant by staying related in worldwide cricket, Mithali mentioned, “I feel being related goes with the instances, girls’s cricket has developed over time.
    “Teams are scoring 250 and about, you need to tune your game accordingly. I have not really given much of a thought to any of the milestones. One milestone which will truly stand out is if we go on to win the world cup, that will always be very very special.”
    About the efficiency of the spinners, she mentioned there was a must work on consistency, including it was not worrisome.
    “Well, see what we have to work on is consistency, and it’s not worrisome. They will get again to the kind of rhythm that they had earlier than the pandemic.
    “But sure, clearly when you’ve gotten a batting monitor, when you’ve gotten tracks which aren’t aiding the spinners, in order that they have little or no (scope), you realize making an attempt variations.
    “I guess it is important for them to work on these things, have a lot of plans, our spin attack is experienced, it is not that they are young or novice, so clearly I am sure they will work on these things in the coming games.”
    The Indian ODI skipper additionally burdened on having batters who can speed up within the final 10 overs of an innings.
    “Well, we positively must have batters taking part in the final 10 overs as a result of clearly the kind of recreation {that a} batter has, the decrease or tail-ender might not, so it will be significant that we have now the batters taking part in the final 10 overs and a settled batter will all the time be very useful in these instances.
    “Yes we have players like Harman (Harmanpreet Kaur) and Deepti (Sharma) and it is just a matter of few innings that they will come good in those 10 overs,” she added.

  • BCCI proclaims India ladies’s squad for South Africa collection

    Image Source : GETTY IMAGES File photograph of Mithali Raj (left) and Jemimah Rodrigues.
    Indian cricket board (BCCI) named India ladies’s ODI and T20 squad for the house collection in opposition to South Africa in a press assertion on Saturday. Veteran Mithali Raj will proceed to guide the ODI facet within the collection, which can start in Lucknow from March 7 and can see the perimeters sq. of over 5 ODIs and three T20Is.

    Among huge exclusions, Ekta Bisht, Anuja Patil, Veda Krishnamurthy, Taniya Bhatia and Shikha Pandey have been dropped to make room for maiden call-up Pratyusha Challaru, Monika Patel, Simran Dil Bahadur, Yastika Bhatia, Ayushi Soni and Swetha Verma.

    All the matches shall be performed at Lucknow’s Bharat Ratna Shree Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana International Stadium. 

    The squads specifically are: 

    Squad for ODI collection: Mithali Raj (Captain), Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Punam Raut, Priya Punia, Yastika Bhatia, Harmanpreet Kaur (vice-captain), D. Hemalatha, Deepti Sharma, Sushma Verma (wicket-keeper), Swetha Verma (wicket-keeper), Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Jhulan Goswami, Mansi Joshi, Poonam Yadav, C. Prathyusha, Monica Patel.

    T20I squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh, Harleen Deol, Sushma Verma (wicket-keeper), Nuzhat Parveen (wicket-keeper), Ayushi Soni, Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav, Mansi Joshi, Monica Patel, C. Prathyusha, Simran Dil Bahadur.

     

  • UPCA confirms India-South Africa sequence in Lucknow from March 7

    Image Source : BCCI Indian ladies’s cricket staff
    The Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association on Tuesday confirmed that will probably be internet hosting the eight-match restricted overs sequence between the ladies’s groups of India and South Africa in Lucknow from March 7.
    The sequence, comprising 5 ODIs and three T20Is, will mark the Indian staff’s return to aggressive cricket after nearly 12 months.
    Both groups might be arriving in Lucknow on February 25 and can bear a six-day quarantine.
    A 22-member Indian staff has been picked for the competition however is but to be introduced. The PTI reported the event on Monday.

    “We got the go ahead from the BCCI yesterday. It is a big series considering our team last played 12 month ago. We are looking forward to hosting it,” UPCA secretary Yudhvir Singh instructed PTI.
    The ODI, all of them day-games, might be performed on March 7, 9, 12, 14 and 17 and might be adopted by the T20 matches on March 20, 21 and 24 with the primary two video games to be performed beneath lights on the Ekana International Stadium.
    Both the groups will get lower than per week to coach earlier than the sequence opener as a result of quarantine protocol. South Africa performed not too long ago however India haven’t performed any worldwide match for the reason that T20 World Cup in March final yr because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
    The solely outing of the Indian gamers since that T20 World Cup closing in Melbourne was through the exhibition Women’s T20 Challenge in Sharjah in November final yr.
    The sequence was earlier presupposed to be held on the Greenfield Sports Hub Stadium in Thiruvanthapuram however Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) expressed its incapability to stage the matches because the stadium house owners had booked an Army recruitment drive on the identical dates. 

  • India Women face Serbia on Wednesday in first of three FIFA friendlies

    The Indian girls’s soccer group will kick off its preparations for the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup to be hosted by the nation with a global pleasant match towards Serbia in Alanya, Turkey on Wednesday.
    The match towards Serbia is the primary of three worldwide friendlies India will play this month in Turkey.
    The Indian group faces Russia on February 19 and Ukraine on February 23.
    Midfielder Sangita Basfore will captain the aspect.
    “We’ve had a good couple of months of camp in Goa, where we have had the opportunity to assess all the girls,” head coach Maymol Rocky mentioned.
    “Serbia are a strong side, and we will have to be at our best to get the desired result against them. All my players are excited to be playing international football once again. They are all pumped ahead of this game,” she added.
    Defender Ashalata Devi feels that dealing with such robust European sides will act as an excellent preparation for the AFC Women’s Asian Cup”.
    “I am very happy that the team is once again preparing for International football. Serbia are a quality side. It will be good to test ourselves against them in our first match,” she mentioned.
    “These matches are extremely important for us. We are preparing for the AFC Asian Cup India 2022 and such matches will make us stronger and confident,” she added.

  • Amid uncertainty over worldwide schedule, India girls cricketers rush to participate in membership occasion

    Image Source : GETTY IMAGES The Indian workforce has not performed for the reason that T20 World Cup in March and there’s no readability over its subsequent fixture with the Australia tour, scheduled to be held later this month, postponed to 2022.
    Leading India gamers, together with Jemimah Rodrigues, Veda Krishnamurthy and Deepti Sharma, can be participating in a membership T20 event in Bengaluru from Monday at the same time as uncertainty continues over the workforce’s subsequent worldwide project amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
    The Indian workforce has not performed for the reason that T20 World Cup in March and there’s no readability over its subsequent fixture with the Australia tour, scheduled to be held later this month, postponed to 2022. There can also be no closing phrase but on the ladies’s home season.

    The event, comprising 4 groups, will run from January 4-12 and has been organised to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the Falcon Sports Club.
    The different India gamers collaborating within the event embrace Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Punam Raut, Radha Yadav, Vanitha V R, Nuzhat Parveen, Anuja Patil and Thirush Kamini.
    “The event has been approved by the Karnataka State Cricket Association and wherever the permission from other state associations was required for the outstation players, we have taken that,” former India captain Shantha Rangaswamy and present BCCI Apex Council member advised PTI.

    She can also be the president of the Falcon Sports Club.
    “The truth that there’s not a lot cricket occurring within the nation (attributable to COVID-19), there was elevated curiosity from outstation gamers. They all are very eager to get again to the sector.
    “It is also a good opportunity for some of the younger uncapped players to rub shoulders with the best. The tournament will also give much needed game time to our India players,” she added.
    The India gamers have been final seen within the Women’s T20 Challenge in November, an exhibition occasion held through the IPL play-offs which marked their return to the sport following a seven-month break.
    The outstation gamers must carry a detrimental RT-PCR report (not older than 2-3 days) into the town.
    Gamezy and Rummy Culture are the co-sponsors of the event.