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  • Harmanpreet used to be overthinking, which ended in her taking part in somewhat wary previously: Trainer who helped her smash shackles

    On Wednesday evening, when the India Girls beat England Girls by means of 88-runs in the second one ODI at Canterbury, in Adelaide, a trainer typed out a message for Harmanpreet Kaur Bhullar, the skipper of the successful staff.

    Harmanpreet’s 111-ball unbeaten 143 used to be the spotlight of the Indian innings, her 5th ODI century and helped India Girls win their first collection in England since 1999.

    Trainer Yadwinder Singh Sodhi watched the India innings and went to sleep realizing that Harmanpreet had neatly and really became a nook.

    “I needed to move to paintings this morning. However observing her play in her herbal taste of dominating the opposition bowlers used to be pleasing. It jogged my memory of her century (171) towards Australia within the semifinals of the 2017 International Cup. I messaged her that ‘whilst you play your herbal attacking sport, then the staff as neatly the lovers experience observing you,’” Sodhi advised The Indian Specific from Adelaide.

    Captain @ImHarmanpreet led from the entrance, hammering 143* & bagged the Participant of the Fit award as #TeamIndia beat England by means of 88 runs within the 2⃣nd ODI to take an unassailable lead within the collection. ? ? #ENGvIND

    Scorecard ▶️ https://t.co/dmQVpiNH4h percent.twitter.com/lHrfOQDBX7

    — BCCI Girls (@BCCIWomen) September 21, 2022

    Submit that knock towards Australia in 2017, Bhullar had only one century — towards West Indies previous this 12 months — in 37 innings in ODIs. A T20 Global hundred towards New Zealand in 2018 used to be adopted by means of any other drought of giant runs. All the way through the Commonwealth Video games, she discovered shape with two half-centuries, together with a 65 within the ultimate, a sport India Girls misplaced by means of 9 runs.

    All the way through a difficult section remaining 12 months, Harmanpreet frolicked with trainer Sodhi and his circle of relatives — daughters Sabreen and Mehar and spouse Mandeep — in Adelaide when she used to be taking part in the Girls’s Giant Bash League.

    Highlights from the second one ODI as India seal the collection in Canterbury.

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    — England Cricket (@englandcricket) September 22, 2022

    “Ultimate 12 months, when she got here to Australia to play within the WBBL, she spent per week with us at our Adelaide house. Giant ratings weren’t coming from her bat. However in the beginning, we would have liked her to be comfortable and to calm down. It used to be Diwali time and he or she celebrated with my circle of relatives. It helped her get a while clear of cricket. She would accompany my spouse and daughters sightseeing in Adelaide,” Sodhi recollects.

    The trainer had one piece of recommendation for Harmanpreet and that used to be to play her herbal attacking sport. “She used to be overthinking and it ended in her taking part in somewhat wary. Later that week, she hit a 40-odd in 18 balls in WBBL. We watched that sport within the stadium and I may just sense that she had were given the rhythm again,” Sodhi mentioned.

    What adopted used to be a turnaround.

    Within the WBBL, the place she used to be adjudged because the Participant of the event, Bhullar scored 406 runs at a strike charge of 130.96 with 3 fifty-plus ratings and smashed 18 sixes — probably the most remaining season. She additionally took 15 wickets.

    “From time to time drive makes gamers take a look at new issues and that’s what Harman used to be doing previous to the WBBL. She used to be looking to ranking the runs at the back of the sq. or sq. of the wicket and taking part in pictures just like the paddle sweep. However then I advised her that it used to be now not her sport. She is among the few batters within the sport who can transparent the boundary at will. She has centered runs in cow nook and mid-wicket space by means of stepping out or slog sweeping with luck. Harman is more or less a participant who derives motivation from fours and sixes and we mentioned that there is not any hurt in attempting that off the primary ball.”

    On Wednesday, Harmanpreet confirmed why she remains to be probably the most absolute best strikers of the ball. Her unbeaten 143 contained 18 obstacles and 4 sixes. Harmanpreet scored 45 runs within the deep midwicket area and 43 runs within the deep additional quilt area.

    Her youth trainer and Sodhi’s father Kamaldeesh Singh Sodhi too watched the fit highlights at his Moga house. “Harmanpreet noticed some ups and downs lately. I at all times inform her {that a} batsman’s lifestyles is one ball simplest. He can hit a six on that ball and will get bowled off that one ball too. She has the precise outlook now.”

  • CWG 2022 | Garbage batting, no commonplace sense: Mohammed Azharuddin slams India after cricket finals defeat

    Mohammed Azharuddin criticised Harmanpreet Kaur-led India girls’s cricket crew for throwing away the gold medal fit on the Commonwealth Video games. India misplaced the general to Australia via 9 runs.

    Jess Jonassen took 2 wickets within the ultimate over to package out India. (AP Photograph)

    HIGHLIGHTSAzharuddin mentioned that India gave away the gold medal fit on a platterAzharuddin criticised India’s batting within the ultimate in opposition to AustraliaIndia misplaced the CWG ultimate fit to Australia via 9 runs on August 7

    Former India cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin slammed the nationwide girls’s cricket crew for dropping the Commonwealth Video games gold medal fit to Australia.

    India went down in opposition to the reigning international T20 champions Australia via 9 runs within the ultimate on Sunday. Harmanpreet Kaur-led aspect misplaced 5 wickets for simply 31 runs whilst chasing 162 runs.

    “Garbage batting via the Indian crew. No commonplace sense. Gave away a successful sport on a platter,” Azharuddin tweeted.

    Garbage batting via the Indian crew. No commonplace sense. Gave away a successful sport on a platter. #INDvsAUS #WomensCricket #CWG22

    — Mohammed Azharuddin (@azharflicks) August 7, 2022

    The fit was once neatly within the palms of India, with Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues hammering the Australian bowlers after dropping the openers cost effectively in fast succession. Each Harmanpreet and Jemimah stitched a 96-run partnership for the 3rd wicket. Then again, Australia pulled again issues as Megan Schutt castled Jemimah for 33.

    After you have the much-needed step forward, Ash Gardner tightened the screws via disregarding Pooja Vastrakar (1) and Harmanpreet Kaur (65 off 43) on successive balls. Against the top, when India, who had been 8 down, vital 11 runs off the general over, Jess Jonassen made no mistake and took two wickets to finish Australia’s treble.

    In the meantime, former India males’s trainer and cricketer Ravi Shastri sympathised with the ladies’s crew, pronouncing: “Neatly accomplished. Nice braveness in a last. @ImHarmanpreet, @imrameshpowar nice activity. One thing giant coming quickly. Hold in @BCCIWomen #INDvsAUS #CWG2022.”

    Harbhajan Singh wrote: “So shut but up to now us neatly accomplished @ImHarmanpreet and crew for buying silver hmmm neatly congratulations to @CricketAus girls’s for Gold medal at commonwealth video games .. #CommonwealthGames2022.”

    Dinesh Karthik, who was once gazing the fit with males’s crew in Florida, mentioned: “Y’all saved us glued to the display! Really well performed all the way through the match and very pleased with you #TeamIndia.”

    — ENDS —

  • Commonwealth Video games: India Girls’s Cricket, Athletics, Squash and Desk Tennis groups succeed in Birmingham

    India Girls’s Cricket, Athletics, Squash and Desk Tennis groups have reached Birmingham for the approaching Commonwealth Video games (CWG) which can happen from July 28 to August 8.

    The Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) had given a send-off to the Indian contingent at other airports in India. The Harmanpreet Kaur-led cricket group left for the Commonwealth Video games from Bengaluru on July 25.

    “Glimpses from Indian ladies’s cricket group’s arrival in Birmingham for #CWG2022. Stay your #Cheer4India messages coming in,” SAI mentioned in a tweet.

    Glimpses from Indian ladies’s cricket group’s arrival in Birmingham for #CWG2022

    Stay your #Cheer4India messages coming in @PMOIndia @ianuragthakur@NisithPramanik @IndiaSports @BCCIWomen @CGI_Bghm @ImHarmanpreet percent.twitter.com/T3wOdOZ327

    — SAI Media (@Media_SAI) July 25, 2022

    Girls’s cricket will make a debut on the Commonwealth Video games, with the suits to be performed within the T20I structure at Edgbaston. For the primary time, cricket will characteristic on the Commonwealth Video games since a Checklist A males’s match used to be held on the 1998 Commonwealth Video games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

    India are in Workforce A with Australia, Barbados, and Pakistan. In the meantime, Sri Lanka, England, New Zealand and South Africa are positioned in Workforce B.

    India will start their marketing campaign towards Australia on July 29 at Edgbaston, adopted via Pakistan (July 31) and Barbados (August 3). The highest two groups from the respective swimming pools will development to the semi-finals. India are scheduled to play 3 video games within the league level of the match beginning July 29.

    India’s CWG squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, S. Meghana, Taniyaa Sapna Bhatia (wk), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Deepti Sharma, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Radha Yadav, Harleen Deol, Sneh Rana.

    Standby: Simran Dil Bahadur, Richa Ghosh, Poonam Yadav.

    — ENDS —

  • We’ve a number of peak order batters, everybody could have their possibilities: Harmanpreet Kaur

    The Indian staff is full of quite a few top-order batters and the brand new all-format captain Harmanpreet Kaur says all gets an opportunity to turn their value within the T20 sequence in opposition to Sri Lanka, beginning Thursday.

    Sublime left-hander Smriti Mandhana, explosive Shafali Verma, Sabbhineni Meghana and Yastika Bhatia are all top-order batters in India’s 15-player squad.

    Within the absence of Smriti, it used to be Shafali and Yastika, who opened the batting in opposition to New Zealand in February.

    “We do have many peak order batters, together with 3 to 4 of them, who can play as openers. However, in relation to this staff, everybody could have alternative to show off their talents,” Harmanpreet mentioned at the eve of the series-opener.

    “All of us are representing our nation and no matter alternative may come sooner or later, we will have to make the most efficient use of it. We’ve many batters who can play at any place. We can attempt to give everybody the gap to bat the place they really feel relaxed,” she added.

    Harmanpreet additionally subsidized proficient all-rounder Jemimah Rodrigues, who used to be no longer incorporated within the remaining ODI Global Cup squad, however has now made a go back to the facet for the sequence in opposition to Sri Lanka.

    “Jemimah is in point of fact an skilled participant. She’s going to surely play a an important function within the T20 sequence,” Harmanpreet mentioned.

    The skipper admitted that whilst it isn’t conceivable to provide everybody an equivalent alternative always, however, it’s her duty to speak to each and every one to determine the very best staff aggregate for giant tournaments.

    “I can be sure that everybody has sufficient possibilities to organize. If you happen to take a look at Jemimah’s case, she all the time grabs no matter alternatives come her approach. In a similar way, it’s essential to stay speaking to different gamers and in finding out the right mix for big-ticket occasions just like the Commonwealth Video games,” she remarked.

    There is not any readability if the sequence could be broadcast are living. Then again, as issues stand , the primary fit can be proven continue to exist Sri Lanka Cricket’s reputable YouTube channel.

  • Mohammad Kaif needs Mithali Raj to sign up for BCCI management: Would really like to look her in place of energy

    Former India skipper Mithali Raj on Wednesday introduced her retirement from all types of cricket after taking part in the sport for over 20 years.

    Mithali Raj all over a fit. (Courtesy: Reuters)

    HIGHLIGHTSMithali was once honoured with Khel Ratna in 2021Mithali completed with essentially the most girls’s ODI runsMithali’s ultimate look was once 2022 Global Cup

    Former India cricketer Mohammad Kaif on Thursday stated that he needs to look Mithali Raj ready of energy on the Board of Keep watch over for Cricket in India (BCCI).

    Mithali introduced her retirement from all types of cricket after taking part in the sport for over 20 years.

    “Mithali Raj gave Indian girls’s cricket a template that hundreds of ladies adopted. Would really like to look her in place (of) energy,” Kaif stated.

    Mithali Raj gave Indian girls’s cricket a template that hundreds of ladies adopted. Would really like to look her in place energy. @M_Raj03

    — Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) June 9, 2022

    All over her profession, Mithali changed into handiest the 3rd cricketer and primary girl to seem in six Global Cups, becoming a member of Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar and Pakistan nice Javed Miandad.

    Mithali was once honoured with the Arjuna Award (2003, Padma Shri (2015) and Main Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award (2021).

    She completed with essentially the most runs in girls’s ODIs (7805) and because the handiest Indian girl to attain a double century in Checks. Mithali could also be the second one participant after England’s Charlotte Edwards to attain 10,000 runs in girls’s world cricket.

  • How Mithali Raj used e book studying to calm her nerves prior to her giant second

    Mithali completed with maximum runs in girls’s global cricket, most ladies’s ODIs as captain, longest ODI occupation for somebody, youngest to attain a double hundred in girls’s Assessments and maximum fifties in girls’s ODIs.

    Mithali Raj batting right through the 2017 Global Cup fit in opposition to England. (Courtesy: Reuters)

    HIGHLIGHTSMithali has introduced her retirement from all sorts of cricketMithali’s cricketing occupation spanned from 1999 to 2022Mithali’s remaining day out in India colors used to be the 2022 Global Cup

    Mithali Raj is an avid e book reader. Anywhere the Indian workforce travelled, a e book used to make its means in her suitcase with out fail. The addiction of studying used to be all the time there, nevertheless it stuck the eye of fanatics for the primary time right through the 2017 Ladies’s Global Cup in the United Kingdom.

    The 39-year-old former skipper used to be observed frivolously studying a e book whilst looking forward to her flip to bat within the opening fit in opposition to England. The addiction inculcated over time used to calm jitters prior to her giant second.

    An image wherein she used to be observed sitting within the dugout, immersed in a e book with pads on whilst looking forward to her likelihood to bat went viral right away, attracting admiration on social media. India received the fit by way of 35 runs and Mithali become the primary girl to attain seven consecutive half-centuries in ODI cricket.

    Smartly it used to be an excellent climate for a calming learn. https://t.co/7IcOTOViob

    — Mithali Raj (@M_Raj03) June 24, 2017

    Requested about her e book studying, Mithali had mentioned, “Since Kindle isn’t allowed, so I needed to borrow books from the fielding trainer and he gave me this e book by way of Rumi on lifestyles’s necessities (sic) (titled: The Crucial), so I used to be simply studying that.

    “I’m into studying so much; even prior to entering batting I’m all the time with Kindle or books as it calms me down in addition to and I don’t get the ones jitters (forward of) simply entering batting,” she printed right through the 2017 showpiece tournament.

    The e book studying used to be again once more when India took on West Indies of their 2d fit. 5 years later, within the 2022 Global Cup, Mithali, who led India for the remaining time in an international tournament, used to be observed studying whilst as soon as once more looking forward to her likelihood in opposition to England in a league fit.

    Right here it’s… #MithaliRaj percent.twitter.com/Ks8yKnybtO

    — Priya Nagi (@PRIYA7N) March 16, 2022

    Mithali introduced her retirement from all sorts of cricket after a glittering occupation spanning from 1999 to 2022. She completed with maximum runs in girls’s global cricket, most ladies’s ODIs as captain, longest ODI occupation for somebody, youngest to attain a double hundred in girls’s Assessments and maximum fifties in girls’s ODIs.

  • Preview: Determined India intention to finish dropping streak in New Zealand excursion

    The sequence already out of its grab, a determined Indian ladies’s cricket workforce will glance to snap the dropping streak and salvage some delight via sorting its bowling and fielding woes within the fourth ODI in opposition to New Zealand right here on Tuesday.

    India suffered a 2nd successive three-wicket loss to hosts New Zealand within the 3rd sport to concede the five-ODI sequence.

    It used to be but any other limited-overs sequence loss for the Indian workforce, following the defeats to South Africa at house and in England and Australia within the ultimate three hundred and sixty five days.

    Within the ongoing rubber, if batting let the workforce down within the one-off T20I and the primary ODI, it used to be the bowlers and fielders who didn’t stay issues underneath keep watch over within the ultimate two fits because the New Zealand aspect effectively chased down massive totals.

    With the Global Cup looming, Mithali Raj’s workforce should iron out the failings within the subsequent two ODIs and the go back of superstar opener Smriti Mandhana and pacer Meghna Singh will bolster the workforce because it seems to be to get some momentum forward of the big-ticket tournament.

    Within the bowling division, veteran pacer Jhulan Goswami used to be the one shiny spot within the third ODI as she rocked the top-order with 3 wickets however she lacked fortify as New Zealand recovered from 171 for six to chase down 280 with 5 balls to spare.

    With Meghna again, India will glance to box a powerful and settled tempo assault in the remainder two ODIs after experimenting with Pooja Vastrakar, Simran Bahadur and Renuka Singh.

    Amongst spinners, Deepti Sharma has shone shiny with seven scalps, together with a four-wicket haul in the second one ODI, however the likes of Poonam Yadav and Rajeshwari Gayakwad should publish extra constant presentations.
    India’s batting has regarded just right with Sabbhineni Meghana grabbing the chance with each arms, hitting 49 and 61 within the ultimate two ODIs in Mandhana’s absence. Shafali Verma additionally returned to shape with a 57-ball 51 within the 3rd sport.

    With Mandhana again, it’s going to be fascinating to look the combo that skipper Mithali fields within the subsequent two ODIs, particularly with Harmanpreet Kaur suffering to get runs within the heart.

    New Zealand, however, had been running like a well-oiled system. The hosts are top on self assurance after chasing two massive rankings however one house they want to enhance is bowling within the ultimate two video games.

    Amelia Kerr (219) and Suzie Bates (127) had been their absolute best batters with every hitting 100 within the first two video games.

    If the 2 have equipped solidity on the height order, Amy Satterthwaite has been spectacular within the heart with 122 runs within the sequence to this point.

    Within the 3rd ODI, it used to be Lauren Down and Katey Martin who confirmed their prowess down the order, sewing a match-winning 76-run stand for the 7th wicket.

    In bowling, Jess Kerr and common skipper Sophie Devine had been their maximum a hit bowlers with 5 and 4 wickets respectively however the hosts allowed the Indians to attain massive totals and they’ll have to tug their socks up within the subsequent two video games.

    Squads

    India: Sabbhineni Meghana, Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, Mithali Raj (captain), Harmanpreet Kaur, Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Simran Bahadur, Poonam Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Sneh Rana, Meghna Singh, Taniya Bhatia, Renuka Singh, Smriti Mandhana, Jhulan Goswami.

    New Zealand: Sophie Devine, Suzie Bates, Amelia Kerr, Amy Satterthwaite (c), Maddy Inexperienced, Katey Martin (wk), Brooke Halliday, Hayley Jensen, Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Fran Jonas, Lea Tahuhu, Lauren Down, Frances Mackay, Hannah Rowe.