South African Women's Cricket Team In India In 2019–20
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South African Women's Cricket Team In India In 2019–20
The South Africa women's cricket team toured India to play against the India women's cricket team in September and October 2019. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) and six Women's Twenty20 International (WT20) matches. The WODI matches were not part of the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship. Ahead of the tour, India's Mithali Raj retired from WT20I cricket, to focus on the 50-over format on the run-up to the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup. South Africa's captain, Dane van Niekerk, missed the series due to injury, with Suné Luus leading the team in her absence. India had initially won the WT20I series, after a win in the fourth match gave them an unassailable lead. India had also won the first match, with the next two fixtures abandoned due to rain. However, on 2 October 2019, an extra WT20I match was added to the schedule. India won the fifth WT20I match by five wickets, to confirm their series victory. South Africa won the sixth and final WT20 ...
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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 agains ...
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Smriti Mandhana
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Mansi Joshi
Mansi Joshi (born 18 August 1993) is an Indian international cricketer who made her debut for the Indian national team in November 2016. She is a right-arm medium-fast bowler. She is a right handed batsman. She is currently being coached by Virendra Singh Rautela. Joshi was born in Tehri in Uttarakhand She plays domestic cricket for Haryana. She has always been inspired by Sachin Tendulkar. She attended trials at Haryana Cricket Association and got selected in Under-19 in Senior Women's state team. She was named in India's squad for the Twenty20 International (T20I) component of a November 2016 series against the West Indies. She was not selected in any of her team's matches in that series, but made her T20I debut later in the month, playing against Bangladesh in the 2016 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup in Thailand. She took 1/8 on debut, and in the next game took 2/8 against Thailand and was named player of the match (although that game did not have T20I status). She made her Women ...
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Dayalan Hemalatha (born 29 September 1994) is an Indian cricketer. She is a right-handed batter and bowls right-arm off-break. She plays domestic cricket for Railways, and has previously played for Tamil Nadu and South Zone. In March 2018, she was named in India Women's Women's One Day International (WODI) squad for their series against England Women, but she did not play. She made her WODI debut against Sri Lanka on 11 September 2018. In October 2018, she was named in India's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut against New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ... on 9 November 2018. References External links * * 1994 births Living people Crick ...
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Jhulan Nishit Goswami (born 25 November 1982) is an Indian cricketer. She plays as a right-arm medium fast bowler and right-handed batter. She is one of the fastest (female) bowler of all times and considered one of the greatest bowlers to ever play the sport. She played 204 ODI matches before her retirement from international cricket in 2022, taking 255 wickets, and holds the record for taking the most number of wickets in Women's One Day International cricket. Goswami won the ICC Women's Player of the Year award in 2007 and the M.A. Chidambaram trophy for Best Women's Cricketer in 2011. She rose to number one in the ICC Women's ODI bowling rankings in January 2016. Career Goswami was born to a middle-class family in the town of Chakdaha in the Nadia district of West Bengal on 25 November 1982. She took up cricket at the age of 15, and was previously a football fan. Goswami began to take interest in cricket when she watched the 1992 Cricket World Cup on TV. She took ...
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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' ...
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Taniya Bhatia (born 28 November 1997) is an Indian cricketer. She is primarily a wicket-keeper. She plays for Punjab and India. She is currently trained under coach RP Singh. The International Cricket Council (ICC) named Bhatia as one of the five breakout stars in women's cricket in 2018. Early life She was born to Sapna and Sanjay Bhatia in Chandigarh. Her father works in Central Bank of India and had played cricket at the all India university level. She has an elder sister Sanjana and younger brother Sehaj. Earlier, Bhatia trained under former Indian cricketer and Yuvraj Singh's father Yograj Singh while she was studying at DAV Senior Secondary School. She is currently studying BA-II at MCM DAV College for Women. Bhatia's father was himself a cricket player and so was her uncle. Her brother too has joined the U-19 cricket team. Early career After her DAV academy days, she became the youngest girl to represent Punjab in U19 at the young age of 11. She soon joined the senior s ...
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