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1 month ago | 
espn.in | Vishal Dikshit |Sruthi Ravindranath |Namooh Shah
Gujarat Giants (GG) had so many bloopers on Thursday night that it was hard to keep count. These errors - while fielding and running between the wickets - combined cost them the WPL 2025 Eliminator against Mumbai Indians (MI), who were sharp in the field, by 47 runs. Their coach Michael Klinger summed it up thus: "probably minus 20 to us [for the lapses] and plus 20 to them".
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1 month ago | 
espn.co.uk | Ashish Pant |Hemant Brar |Sruthi Ravindranath
Player of the Match in the 2023 T20 World Cup final. Player of the Tournament at the 2020 T20 World Cup. An average of 110 in the 2022 ODI World Cup. Two times Player of the Match in back-to-back WBBL finals, 2018-19 and 2019. There's something about big games that brings out the beast mode in Beth Mooney. The Australian teams she has been part of have given her ample opportunities to showcase her big-game mentality.
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2 months ago | 
espn.in | Sruthi Ravindranath |Shashank Kishore |S Sudarshanan
Last year, in the opening match of the 2024 WPL season, Mumbai Indians needed five off the last ball against Delhi Capitals. That's when S Sajana, on debut, walked out into the middle, but her mind went blank. She had never envisioned such a situation. The packed Chinnaswamy Stadium seemed quiet and empty to her. The pressure even made the fielders around her look blurry. But she told herself that if she needed to make her name known, she had to make a statement.
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2 months ago | 
espn.co.uk | Vishal Dikshit |Hemant Brar |Sruthi Ravindranath
The third season of the Women's Premier League is not far away, and it comes about eight months before the ODI World Cup later this year in India. In this interview, India and Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur talks about the growth of the women's game in India since the inception of the WPL, the gap it is filling in Indian cricket, how India is preparing players for the big tournaments, and more.
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2 months ago | 
espn.in | Sruthi Ravindranath |Hemant Brar |S Sudarshanan |Srinidhi Ramanujam
Two seasons, two top-of-the-table finishes. Two finals, but no trophies. Delhi Capitals (DC) came close to title wins in WPL 2023 and 2024, before falling short in the final against Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bengaluru, respectively. But for captain Meg Lanning, continuing to do what they've done the last two seasons along with a "few little changes" is all the team needs to go one step ahead and clinch the title in 2025.
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2 months ago | 
espn.in | S Sudarshanan |Vishal Dikshit |Sruthi Ravindranath
Where Mumbai Indians (MI) finished in WPL 2024They finished second in the league stage for a second season in a row, but went down to title-winners Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the closely-fought Eliminator. They were inaugural champions in 2023. What's new for MI in WPL 2025? Allrounder Nadine de Klerk and Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup winner G Kamalini, who was India's wicketkeeper and opening batter in the tournament, are among their newest additions.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
espn.co.uk | Ashish Pant |Sruthi Ravindranath
WPL 2025 will begin on February 14, a week later than earlier planned, with Gujarat Giants hosting defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the newly built BCA stadium in Vadodara. As ESPNcricinfo had reported earlier, Lucknow is the other new venue for the upcoming season, with Mumbai and Bengaluru to host matches as well. After the first six games in Vadodara, the tournament will move to Bengaluru for the next eight matches.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
espn.co.uk | Andrew McGlashan |Sruthi Ravindranath
Cricket Australia chair Mike Baird has defended the governing body's stance on not playing bilateral matches against Afghanistan after being accused of hypocrisy by outgoing ICC chair Greg Barclay. Barcley's tenure came to an end on December 1 when Jay Shah took over at the ICC and as part of a wide-ranging interview with the UK's Daily Telegraph he took aim at boards who have suspended playing Afghanistan outside of global tournaments.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
espn.in | Sruthi Ravindranath |Firdose Moonda |Sidharth Monga
Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi, the biggest names in Afghanistan cricket, have come out strongly against the Taliban's reported closure of institutes for women training as nurses and midwives. The closures are a new setback for women's rights in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021. The Taliban has banned secondary and higher education for girls and women, though exemptions had till now existed in the medical sector.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
espn.co.uk | Nagraj Gollapudi |Sruthi Ravindranath
Greg Barclay, the outgoing chair of the ICC, has acknowledged the game he governed for four years is "a mess" and has warned of more challenging times ahead as he gives way to Jay Shah. In an interview with the Telegraph, Barclay, who had two two-year terms at the helm from 2020, also cautioned Shah against taking the game "under the yoke of India".
