Archive for the 'Women's Cricket' Category
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
England women’s pacer Isa Guha in an exclusive chat with espnstar.com recalls bowling to Sachin Tendulkar.
By Rajarshi Gupta
Eight years after her debut for England, 24 year-old Isa Guha is today a force to reckon with in women’s cricket. She has been a major cog in the team’s success at the international level and despite her [...]
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
England women clinched the three-match Twenty20 series against India by beating the hosts in the decider on Monday.
They won by five wickets with four balls to spare at the MCA’s Bandra-Kurla Complex ground.
With the series locked 1-1 after India won the second game to draw level with the reigning world T20 champions, who clinched the [...]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
England’s women scrambled two runs off the final ball to pull off a thrilling win in the first of three Twenty20 matches against India in Mumbai.
Needing one run to secure a draw, Nicky Shaw held her nerve to hit two runs and help England scrape home on 126-8.
Charlotte Edwards began England’s chase with 28 and [...]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
With England needing six runs off the last over, with four wickets in hand, it looked like an easy win for the visitors in the first Twenty20 in Mumbai. But four balls later they needed two with two wickets in hand. A dot ball off the fifth meant two from the final ball. Nicky Shaw [...]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
India captain Jhulan Goswami has reclaimed the number-one bowling spot in the ICC Women’s ODI Rankings for bowlers.
Goswami took 11 wickets in the series, including 3-16 in the series opener in Bangalore, which has helped her leapfrog the Australia duo of Shelley Nitschke and Lisa Sthalekar. Seven months ago, Goswami had surrendered her number-one position [...]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
The all-India senior selection committee has named the squad for India Women’s Twenty20 series against England, as well as the 30 probables for the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 in the West Indies in April and May.
The three Twenty20 internationals against England will be played at the MCA recreation centre in Mumbai on March 4, 6 [...]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Uncapped Lauren Griffith and Susie Rowe have been named in England’s 20-strong provisional squad for May’s women’s ICC World Twenty20 in the Caribbean.
Cheshire wicketkeeper Griffith, 23, and Kent all-rounder Rowe, 22, are the only new players in the party that will be cut to 14 by 19 March.
England begin the defence of their title against [...]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
The England women’s selectors today named a provisional 20-strong squad for the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean which start in May.
England are currently on tour in India, where they have been beaten 3-2 in the ODI series which precedes a three-match Twenty20 series. Yet they will go to the Caribbean as defending champions and much [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Mithali Raj’s third consecutive half-century gave India an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series against England in Visakhapatnam. She scored 84 in an attractive stroke-filled innings to give India a convincing five-wicket win.
For a second game in a row, India had to chase a below-par total. Raj came to the crease in the fifth [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
England’s women fell to a five-wicket defeat to India in Visakhapatnam as the hosts took an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match one-day series. Read more
Courtesy : news.bbc.co.uk
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Wicketkeeper Sulakshana Naik and all-rounder Diana David were named in the Indian women’s team for the remaining three ODIs against England.
Naik and David have replaced Nooshin-Al-Khadeer and M D Thirushkamini in the 14-member squad, BCCI secretary N Srinivasan said in a statement.
The five-match series is currently tied 1-1 and the next two one-dayers are scheduled [...]
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
India have called up Sulakshana Naik and Diana David for the remaining ODIs against England, to replace Nooshin Al Khadeer and Thirush Kamini in the squad of 14.
While wicketkeeper Naik last featured in the semi-final of the Women’s World Twenty20 against New Zealand in June last year, David makes her return to the national fold [...]
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