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India will remember 2017 as the year women’s cricket began finding its voice. Smriti Mandhana dazzled with her elegance, Harmanpreet Kaur unleashed a breathtaking 171 against Australia, and Mithali Raj hogged the limelight with her batting and the now-famous picture of her reading a book.Amid all the noise, there was Punam Raut. Short in stature,…
NFL will reportedly never surpass cricket or soccer even if “100,000 people show up at a cricket arena to watch an NFL game at 10.30 in the morning local time on a weekday” (Image 1 via Getty, Image 2 via Pinterest: Stephen A. Smith and NFL logo) Stephen A. Smith is all praise for the…
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Sri Lanka has lost the hosting rights for the inaugural ICC Women’s Champions Trophy, and the decision should leave one person in particular asking some uncomfortable questions: the Minister of Sports. As exclusively reported by the Sunday Times last week, the International Cricket Council (ICC) this week formally confirmed India as the host of the…
Smriti Mandhana plays a shot during the Women’s T20 Asia Cup match between India and Hong Kong. (Photo | X, @BCCIWomen)
Indian vice-captain Smriti Mandhana has made history by surpassing her role model Mithali Raj to become the leading run-scorer in Women’s Internationals, a milestone she humbly admitted she ‘never imagined’ achieving.
Smriti Mandhana produced a record-breaking 124 against Hong Kong in the Women’s Asia Cup on Thursday, an innings that took her past Mithali Raj as the leading run-scorer in women’s international cricket. The India vice-captain also became the first Indian woman with two T20I centuries and admitted she had never imagined overtaking her childhood role…
Smriti Mandhana became the leading run-scorer in women’s international cricket. | Photo Credit:
Homesportscricket ‘I definitely never imagined to do that’ | Smriti Mandhana on surpassing Mithali Raj’s featHistory was created at Dubai as the Indian vice-captain went past Mithali Raj’s tally of 10,868 International runs.
Indonesia were bowled out for 49 in Dubai on Wednesday night, and Sri Lanka’s captain took seven of the wickets, three of them in consecutive balls.