Indian Women Cricket Team
Women T20 World Cup 2024: In the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, the Indian women’s team lost against Australia by 9 runs. Harmanpreet Kaur scored a half-century for India, but she could not lead the team to victory. Apart from her, no other batsman could perform well. The Australian team has made it to the semi-finals of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024.
Harmanpreet became the highest run scorer for India in WT20I
Harmanpreet Kaur scored 54 runs in 47 balls against Australia, which included 6 fours. After scoring a half-century, she has become the highest run-scorer for India in Women’s T20 International. He has broken Smriti Mandhana’s record. Harmanpreet has scored 3576 runs in 177 T20I matches so far. Whereas Mandhana has 3568 runs in her name in 124 T20I matches. Now Harmanpreet has left all the Indian players including Mandhana behind and has secured the first position.
Australia did not allow runs to be scored easily: Harmanpreet
After the defeat against Australia women’s team, Harmanpreet Kaur said that she feels that her entire team contributes, they do not depend on one or two players, they have many all-rounders who contribute. She further said that she also planned well and was present in the game. Harmanpreet further said that Australia did not give runs easily in this match and made it difficult. They are an experienced team. This was a goal that was achievable. When Deepti and I were batting, we were not able to hit some loose balls. We can learn a lot from Australia.
Renuka Singh took two or more wickets 15 times in T20I
In the match against Australia, Renuka Singh managed to take 2 wickets while giving 24 runs in 4 overs of bowling. With this, Renuka has now become the fast bowler who has taken 2 or more wickets in a match as a player of the Indian women’s team in T20 International, in which she has done this feat 15 times in her career so far. Former Indian women’s veteran player Jhulan Goswami, who is now at second place in this list, had managed to achieve this feat 14 times in her career.
Australian women’s team reached semi-finals
In the Women’s T20 World Cup, Australia gave India a target of 152 runs to win. If Team India had chased it within 10.3 overs, the Indian team would have reached the semi-finals, but the Indian women’s team did not do so and lost the match by 9 runs. Due to which Australia has now made its place in the semi-finals. Australia has become the first team to reach the semi-finals of the ongoing T20 World Cup.
Tahlia McGrath fastest to complete thousand T20I runs for Australia
In the match against India, Tahlia McGrath also had an excellent innings of 32 runs in 26 balls. He has completed his 1000 runs in T20 International in just 37 innings. Tahlia has so far scored a total of 1022 runs at an average of 40.88. She has become the fastest player to score 1000 T20I runs for Australia women’s team. Before him, this record was in the name of Meg Lanning who had achieved this feat in 38 innings.
Coach gave a big statement regarding Tim Southee
New Zealand team head coach Gary Stead, in his statement before the Test series against India, said that just like we all review after a Test tour and series, in the same way, Tim Southee and I had a conversation with each other and only after that they Had decided to leave the captaincy. I fully support his decision. It is very important for both the selector and the coach to look at different players as the best performance can be expected. Tim Southee is a player who used to start for us. We always consider such options which can take the team forward.
Tayla Vlaeminck injured, out of Women’s T20 World Cup
After the exclusion of Tayla Vlaeminck, the Australian women’s team informed the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 Event Technical Committee and demanded the inclusion of Heather Graham as their replacement player, which has been accepted. Tayla Vlaeminck was injured while fielding in the very first over during the match against Pakistan, after which she could not participate in the entire match. Tayla had injured her shoulder. She was out of the entire tournament. Heather Graham has been included in her place.
Mahela Jayawardene becomes coach of Mumbai team
The five-time IPL champion team has appointed former Sri Lankan cricketer Mahela Jayawardene as the new head coach ahead of IPL 2025. Mahela Jayawardene has been the head coach of Mumbai Indians from 2017 to 2022. Under him, Mumbai Indians have also won the IPL title thrice. Jayawardene is considered very close to Rohit Sharma. Jayawardene will replace Mark Boucher who was the coach of the team for the last two seasons in 2023 and 2024.
Australia made a great record in Women’s T20 World Cup
The Women’s T20 World Cup was started in the year 2009 and since then there have been 8 editions of it and this 9th edition is being played. The special thing is that the Australian women’s team is the only team which has made it to the semi-finals of every edition of the Women’s T20 World Cup. Apart from the Australian women’s team, no other team has been able to do this. Australia has made it to the semi-finals of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 by defeating India.
Babar Azam out of Pakistani team
Pakistan has announced the squad for the second and third test matches against England. The captaincy of the team has been handed over to Shan Masood. Whereas players like Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah have been dropped from the squad. These players have been going through poor form for a long time, but dropping a big star like Babar Azam is a big blow for Pakistani fans. Apart from these three star players, Sarfaraz Khan has also been dropped.
Pakistan’s squad for the second and third test matches against England:
Shan Masood (captain), Saud Shakeel (vice-captain), Aamir Jamal, Abdullah Shafiq, Hasibullah (wk), Kamran Ghulam, Mehran Mumtaz, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Huraira, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Noman Ali, Saeem Ayub, Sajid Khan, Salman Ali Aga and Zahid Mehmood.
