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2018 Women's T20 Challenge
The 2018 Women's T20 Challenge was the inaugural edition of Women's T20 Challenge, a women's Twenty20 cricket match which took place on 22 May 2018 at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. In an effort to popularise women's cricket, the BCCI had organised the match ahead of Qualifier 1 of 2018 IPL. The exhibition match was also held by the BCCI as a rehearsal for a Women's IPL tournament, a target which would be accomplished in the future. IPL Supernovas won the match by 3 wickets in a last over thriller. Squads Scorecard See also * 2018 Indian Premier League * Women's Big Bash League The Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) also known as Weber WBBL for sponsorship reasons, is the Australian professional Women's Twenty20 Cricket league. The WBBL replaced the Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup, which ran from the 2007–08 season ... References External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo Women's T20 Challenge Women's Twenty20 cricket competitions 2017–18 Indian women's cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IPL Trailblazers
Trailblazers was an Indian cricket team. They were founded in 2018 to compete in the Women's T20 Challenge, which they competed in until the tournament ended in 2022. They won the tournament once, beating IPL Supernovas, Supernovas in the final of the 2020 Women's T20 Challenge by 16 runs. History 2018 Trailblazers were formed in 2018 to take part in the inaugural Women's T20 Challenge competition, in which they played a 2018 Women's T20 Challenge, one-off match against IPL Supernovas, Supernovas. The game was viewed as a response to the men's Indian Premier League, and hopes were that the one-off game would lead towards a fully-fledged tournament in the future. Indian batter Smriti Mandhana was named as captain of the side, alongside fellow Indians Deepti Sharma and Jhulan Goswami as well as overseas players Alyssa Healy, Suzie Bates, Beth Mooney, Danielle Hazell and Lea Tahuhu. In the match, which took place on 22 May 2018, the Trailblazers were put into bat and restricted to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyssa Healy
Alyssa Jean Healy (born 24 March 1990) is an Australian cricketer who plays for and captains the Australian women's national team. She also plays for New South Wales in domestic cricket, as well as the Sydney Sixers in the WBBL and captains the UP Warriorz in Women's Premier League in India. She made her international debut in February 2010. A right-handed batter and wicket-keeper, she is the daughter of Greg Healy, who was part of the Queensland squad, while her uncle Ian Healy was Australia's Test wicket-keeper and held the world record for the most Test dismissals. Another uncle, Greg and Ian's brother Ken Healy, also played cricket for Queensland. Healy first came to prominence in late 2006 when she became the first girl to play among boys in the private schools' competition in New South Wales. She moved up the state age group ranks and made her debut for the senior New South Wales team in the 2007–08 season. She played most of her first two seasons as a specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veda Krishnamurthy
Veda Krishnamurthy (born 16 October 1992) is an Indian cricketer. She made her debut in international cricket at the age of 18 in a one day international (ODI) against England Women at Derby on 30 June 2011. Krishnamurthy went on to score 51 runs on her ODI international debut. She is a right-handed batter and bowls right-arm legbreak. Early life The youngest of four siblings in her family, Veda started playing street cricket when she was 3. As a young girl, she was enrolled for karate classes which she hated. However, she credits the martial arts form for building her strength from a young age. Veda even earned a black belt in karate at the age of 12. Her mother Cheluvamaba Devi and her elder sister Vatsala Shivakumar succumbed to COVID-19 in 2021. She started her formal cricket training in the Karnataka Institute of Cricket in 2005 when she was 13. Realising her talent, the institute's director Irfan Sait urged Veda's father to shift her to Bengaluru to further hone her skil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shikha Pandey
Squadron Leader Shikha Pandey (born 12 May 1989) is an Indian cricketer and former officer in the Indian Air Force. She plays for the India women's national cricket team, national cricket team as a right-arm medium pacer and middle-order batter, and was an IAF air traffic control officer. Pandey made her Women's Twenty20 cricket, international Twenty20 (T20I) debut on 9 March 2014 against Bangladesh national women's cricket team, Bangladesh at Sheikh Kamal International Stadium, Cox's Bazar, Cox's Bazar cricket stadium in Bangladesh. In August of the same year, she made her Women's One Day International cricket, One Day International (ODI) and Women's Test cricket, Test debuts against England women's cricket team, England at Wormsley Park#Cricket ground, Wormsley and North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough, 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 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellyse Perry
Ellyse Perry (born 3 November 1990) is an Australian cricketer and former soccer, soccer player. Having debuted for both the Australia women's national cricket team, national cricket and Australia women's national soccer team, national soccer team at the age of 16, she is the youngest Australian to play international cricket and the first to appear in both Women's Cricket World Cup, ICC and FIFA Women's World Cup, FIFA World Cups. Gradually becoming a single-sport professional athlete from 2014 onward, Perry's acclaimed cricket career has continued to flourish and she is widely regarded to be one of the greatest woman cricketers of all time.* * * * * * A genuine all-rounder, Perry's mastery of both Batsman (cricket), batting and Pace bowling, fast bowling disciplines is reflected in several statistical achievements—she was the first player to amass a combined 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in Twenty20 International, T20Is, she holds the record for the highest score by an Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Hazell
Danielle Hazell (born 13 May 1988) is an English cricket coach and former player. She is currently the coach of English domestic team Northern Diamonds. As a player she was an off break bowler who batted right-handed. She represented England in all three formats of the game, playing three Test matches, 53 One Day Internationals and 85 Twenty20 Internationals. Early life Hazell was born on 13 May 1988 in Durham, County Durham. Domestic career At county level Hazell initially played for Durham between 2002 and 2007, before moving to Yorkshire ahead of the 2008 season. She also played for V Team, Sapphires, Emeralds and Diamonds in the Super Fours competition. Hazell played for Yorkshire Diamonds in the inaugural season of the Women's Cricket Super League in 2016, before moving to Lancashire Thunder ahead of the 2017 season. Hazell had two stints in the Women's Big Bash League, playing for Melbourne Stars in 2016/17 and Adelaide Strikers in 2018/19. International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Devine
Sophie Frances Monique Devine (born 1 September 1989) is a New Zealand sportswoman, who has represented New Zealand in both cricket for the New Zealand national women's cricket team (''White Ferns''), and in field hockey as a member of the New Zealand women's national field hockey team (''Black Sticks Women''). She has since focused on cricket. She is known for not wearing a helmet when batting, a rarity in 21st century cricket. In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year. In August 2018, she was awarded a central contract by New Zealand Cricket, following the tours of Ireland and England in the previous months. In October 2018, she was named in New Zealand's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. Ahead of the tournament, she was named as the star of the team. In July 2020, Devine was appointed as the captain of the New Zealand women's cricket team on a full-time basis, taking over from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jemimah Rodrigues
Jemimah Rodrigues ( ; born 5 September 2000) is an Indian cricketer. She is an all-rounder who plays for the India women's national cricket team. She has been an integral part of the Asian Games and Asia Cup winning team of 2022. On the domestic front, she plays for the Mumbai women's cricket team. Rodrigues has played for the U-17 Maharashtra field hockey team. In 2018, she was awarded the Jagmohan Dalmiya Award for Best Domestic Junior Women's Cricketer by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Early life Jemimah Rodrigues was born to Mangalorean Christian parents, she was brought up in Bhandup, Mumbai, India along with her two brothers, Enoch and Eli. At the age of four years, she started playing season cricket. Her family moved to Bandra West at a very young age to afford the children 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, Ivan Rodri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meg Lanning
Meghann Moira Lanning (born 25 March 1992) is an Australian cricketer who formerly captained the national women's team. Lanning has been a member of seven successful world championship campaigns, winning two Women's Cricket World Cup and five ICC Women's World Twenty20 titles. She holds the record for the most Women's One Day International centuries and is the first Australian to score 2,000 Twenty20 International runs. Domestically, Lanning plays for Victoria in the Women's National Cricket League and the Melbourne Stars in the Women's Big Bash League. She is also the captain of the Delhi Capitals in the Women's Premier League. On 10 November 2023 she announced her retirement from international cricket. Early life and education Lanning was born in Singapore to father Wayne, a banker, and mother Sue. Her family shortly thereafter relocated to the Sydney suburb of Thornleigh, where she attended Warrawee Public School. Lanning began playing organised cricket at the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Mooney
Bethany Louise Mooney (born 14 January 1994) is an Australian professional cricketer who plays for the Australia women's national cricket team, national cricket team as a batting (cricket), batter in all three formats of the game. At the domestic level, she plays as a Wicket-keeper-batsman, wicket-keeper-batter for Western Australia women's cricket team, Western Australia, Perth Scorchers (WBBL), Perth Scorchers in Women's Big Bash League, WBBL and for Gujarat Giants (WPL), Gujarat Giant in Women's Premier League (cricket), WPL. In March 2020, at the conclusion of the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup, ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2020, she became the world's ICC Women's Player Rankings, number one batter in Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket. Early life and career Mooney was born in Shepparton, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. She has a brother, Tom, and a sister, Gabrielle. As a child, she played many sports, ranging from association football, soccer to tennis and Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mithali Raj
Mithali Raj (born 3 December 1982) is an Indian former cricketer who captained the national team from 2004 to 2022. She is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket, and ESPN ranked her as one of the greatest female cricketers of all time. Raj has received several national and international awards, including the ''Wisden'' Leading Woman Cricketer in the World in 2017, Arjuna Award in 2003, the Padma Shri in 2015, and Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2021. Raj holds numerous records in international cricket. She is the only female cricketer to surpass 7,000 runs in Women's One Day International (WODI) 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 2005, Raj 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 in the 2005 and the 2017. In June 2018, during the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepti Sharma
Deepti Sharma (born 24 August 1997) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Uttar Pradesh, UP Warriorz, London Spirit, Melbourne Stars and India. She is an all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm off break. As of 2018, she was ranked 3rd in the top all-rounders in the ICC Cricket Rankings and had the fourth highest individual score by a female cricketer in ODIs (188 runs). In March 2025, she was ranked fifth in the ICC Women’s All-Rounder Rankings. Early life Deepti Sharma was born to Sushilaa and Bhagwan Sharma. She is the youngest among her siblings. Her father is a retired employee of the Indian Railways. She developed an interest in the game of cricket at an early age of 9. Sharma would on a 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 teammat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
