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England Women's Cricket Team In India In 2017–18
The England women's cricket team played the India women's cricket team in April 2018. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs). The matches followed a tri-series in India, which also featured the Australia women's cricket team. India won the series 2–1. Unlike other WODI matches, these fixtures did not form part of the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship. Instead, the fixtures were used to give India more match practice in the run-up to the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup. Ahead of the WODI fixtures, England Women played a warm-up match against India A Women, with all four matches taking place in Nagpur. During the first fixture, India's captain, Mithali Raj, played in her 192nd match, becoming the most capped player in WODIs. In the third and final match, she scored her 50th half-century in WODIs. It was the 56th time she had made a score of fifty or more, a new record in WODIs. Squads Ahead of the first match, Georgia Elwiss was added to Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mithali Raj
Mithali Dorai Raj (born 3 December 1982) is an Indian cricketer and a former captain of the India women's national cricket team from 2004 to 2022. Mithali is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket and is considered one of the greatest cricketers of all time. Mithali holds numerous records in international cricket. She is the only female cricketer to surpass the 7,000-run mark in Women's One Day International matches. She is the first player to score seven consecutive 50s in ODIs. She also holds the record for most half-centuries in WODIs. In June 2018, during the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup, she became the first player from India to score 2000 runs in T20Is, and also became the first female cricketer to reach 2000 WT20I runs. In 2005, Mithali became the permanent captain of India. She is the only female player to have captained India in more than one ICC ODI World Cup final, doing so twice in 2005 and 2017. On 1 February 2019, during India's series again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajeshwari Gayakwad
Rajeshwari Gayakwad (born 1 June 1991) is an Indian cricketer. She plays as a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. She made her debut in international cricket in a One Day International against Sri Lanka on 19 January 2014. Personal life She started playing serious cricket when she was around 18 years. Her father is her biggest inspiration and got her formal coaching. She start playing for the Karnataka women's cricket team and made her international debut in 2014. Gayakwad lost her father to a cardiac arrest in 2014, right after her debut international series, against Sri Lanka After the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, the Water resources minister M. B. Patil gifted a car worth Rs 5 lakh, which she refused and said that her priority at the moment is to get a house for her family. She was at that time the sole breadwinner for her family following the death of her father. International cricket Gayakwad was part of the Indian team to reach the final of the 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Davidson-Richards
Alice Natica Davidson-Richards (born 29 May 1994) is an English cricketer who plays for Kent, South East Stars and Northern Superchargers. A right-handed batter and right-arm pace bowler, she made her county debut for Kent in 2010. She made her debut for England in March 2018. Early life and education Davidson-Richards was born on 29 May 1994 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. She attended Epsom College, Surrey, England, where, between 2007 and 2011, she played cricket alongside her future England teammate and fellow Test centurion Nat Sciver. She later studied at the University of Leeds, and has worked as a personal trainer. Domestic career Davidson-Richards made her Kent debut in 2010, in a match against Surrey in the 2010 Women's Twenty20 Cup. She scored 29 opening the batting alongside Charlotte Edwards, and then took four wickets as Kent completed an 80-run victory. Davidson-Richards went on to take 10 wickets in the tournament, ending it as the second-highest wicket-taker. She went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Cross
Kathryn Laura Cross (born 3 October 1991) is an English international cricketer. She also co-hosts a podcast with Alex Hartley named "No Balls: The Cricket Podcast". Career Cross plays domestic cricket for Lancashire, North West Thunder and Northern Superchargers. A right-arm medium fast bowler and right-handed batter, she was the first woman to be accepted into Lancashire's cricket academy in 2006 and won the Eversheds Most Promising Young Cricketer award in September 2007. She made her debut for the England Under-21 side in 2007. In October 2013 she was called up into the England senior squad to tour the West Indies. She made her T20 debut against the West Indies and in November 2013 made her One Day International debut, also against the West Indies. In her second game of the series (the first was washed out) she took 4 for 51 against the West Indies, a performance which earned her the Player of the Match Award. England won the final two games of a three match series and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tammy Beaumont
Tamsin Tilley Beaumont (born 11 March 1991) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Kent, The Blaze, Welsh Fire, Sydney Thunder and England. She plays primarily as an opening batter and occasional wicket-keeper. She has previously played for Surrey Stars, Adelaide Strikers, Southern Vipers, Melbourne Renegades and London Spirit. Beaumont was part of England's winning 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup team, and was the leading run-scorer in the tournament. She was subsequently named player of the tournament, and awarded an MBE in recognition of her achievements. In 2019, she was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year. Early life and education Beaumont was born in Dover, Kent. She began playing cricket in nearby Sandwich, where she also attended Sir Roger Manwood's School. When she was eight years old, her mother, Julie, secured her very first selection in a cricket team. Beaumont's brother, Michael, was captain of an Under-11 side coached by her father, Kevin, a researc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicket-keeper
The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being watchful of the batsman and ready to take a catch, stump the batsman out and run out a batsman when occasion arises. The wicket-keeper is the only member of the fielding side permitted to wear gloves and external leg guards. The role of the keeper is governed by Law 27 of the Laws of Cricket. Stance Initially, during the bowling of the ball the wicket-keeper crouches in a full squatting position but partly stands up as the ball is received. Australian wicket-keeper Sammy Carter (1878 to 1948) was the first to squat on his haunches rather than bend over from the waist (stooping). Purposes The keeper's major function is to stop deliveries that pass the batsman (in order to prevent runs being scored as 'byes'), but he can also attempt to dismiss the batsman in various ways: * The most common dismissal effected by the keeper is for him to '' catch'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sushma Verma
Sushma Verma (born 5 November 1992) is an Indian cricketer. She started her national-level career as a wicket-keeper and right-handed batter in the India women's national cricket team. After the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup game, the Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh offered her a post of Deputy Superintendent of Police. Early life Sushma Verma born on 3 November 1992 in Shimla, Himachal Prasdesh. Her father “''Bhopal Singh Verma''” wanted her to stay back close to home. But Sushma's choice was to go to “''Portmore Govt Model''” school in Shimla. From flirting with multiple sports – volleyball, handball, and badminton. she has been a state level player at these games but cricket somehow found its way to load Shusma. (official website) Domestic cricket Before that, she played for the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association. Under her captaincy, the Himachal team were the runners-up at the Under-19 All-India women's tournament in 2011. She is the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pooja Vastrakar
Pooja Vastrakar (born 25 September 1999) is an Indian cricketer who currently plays for Madhya Pradesh and India. An all-rounder, she plays as a right-arm medium-fast bowler and right-handed batter. She made her international debut for India in 2018, against South Africa. Early life Vastrakar initially started playing cricket with the boys near her neighborhood in Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh. She later started going to the stadium and practiced net batting where the coach Ashutosh Shrivastava realized her talent and started her formal training. She started off as a batter and later on when she joined the Madhya Pradesh team, she started fast bowling alongside her batting. At the age of 15, she was a part of India Green Women Squad. In 2016, while Vastrakar was fielding during a senior women's domestic match, she twisted her knee. This led to her getting surgery done for her anterior cruciate ligament tear which put her National call-up in jeopardy. The Challenger Trophy in 2018 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devika Vaidya
Devika Purnendu Vaidya (born 13 August 1997) is an Indian cricketer. She plays for Maharashtra in domestic matches. Vaidya studied in Maharashtra Mandal in her childhood. Career Vaidya was selected for the South Africa tour of India in 2014 and made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut at Bangalore on 30 November 2014. She was nominated M. A. Chidambaram Trophy for the best woman junior cricketer 2014–15. In November 2018, Vaidya was included in India's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies, replacing Pooja Vastrakar Pooja Vastrakar (born 25 September 1999) is an Indian cricketer who currently plays for Madhya Pradesh and India. An all-rounder, she plays as a right-arm medium-fast bowler and right-handed batter. She made her international debut for India i ..., who was ruled out due to an injury. She was once again included in the Indian Squad for the T20I series against Australia for the 2022-23 series. Awards * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepti Sharma
Deepti Bhagwan Sharma (born 24 August 1997) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Bengal, Birmingham Phoenix and India. She is an all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm off break and is currently ranked 3rd in the top all-rounders in the ICC Cricket Rankings. She is also the current third highest individual scorer by a woman cricketer in ODIs (188 runs). Early life Deepti Sharma was born to Sushilaa and Bhagwan Sharma. She is the youngest among her siblings. Her father is a retired chief booking supervisor with the Indian Railways. She developed interest in the game of cricket at an early age of 9. Deepti would on daily basis ask her father to request her brother Sumit Sharma (who initially coached her), a former Uttar Pradesh pacer, to take her to the ground and watch the net practices and other matches. During one of the net practices which involved her brother and his teammates at the Ekalavya Sports Stadium in Agra, she was asked to throw the ball back in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jemimah Rodrigues
Jemimah Jessica Rodrigues ( ; born 5 September 2000) is an Indian cricketer. She is an allrounder who plays for the Indian national women's cricket team and Mumbai women's cricket team. In addition, she also played for the Under-17 Maharashtra hockey team. In June 2018, she was awarded with the Jagmohan Dalmiya Award presented by cricketer MS Dhoni for Best Domestic Junior Women's Cricketer by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) at Jharkhand. Early life Jemimah Rodrigues was born and brought-up in Bhandup, Mumbai, India along with her two brothers, Enoch and Eli. She is a practising Christian. At the age of four years, she started playing season cricket. They moved to another corner of the city that is at Bandra West at a very young age to avail of better sports facilities. Her father, Ivan Rodrigues, was a junior coach in her school and she grew up bowling to her brothers. Having coached her since the very beginning, he started the girls’ cricket team at he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shikha Pandey
Squadron Leader (retired) Shikha Subas Pandey (born 12 May 1989) is an Indian cricketer and former officer in the Indian Air Force (IAF). She plays for the national cricket team as a right-arm medium pacer and middle-order batter, and was an IAF air traffic control officer. Pandey made her international Twenty20 (T20) debut on 9 March 2014 against Bangladesh at Cox's Bazar cricket stadium in Bangladesh. In August of the same year, she made her One Day International cricket (ODI) and Test cricket debuts against England at Wormsley and Scarborough, respectively. Early life Pandey did her schooling under the Central Board of Secondary Education, India. At the age of 15, she became the first player affiliated with state board to represent India. Within months of this affiliation and getting introduced into the formal set-up, Surekha Bhandare, former Mumbai player and selector, saw her playing and believed that Pandey had all the markings of a future India player. ''"The raw talen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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