Jul 17, 2026
Mithali’s succession plan: Mandhana for the long formats, Shafali for the T20 job
With India’s women fresh off their first 50-over World Cup title, Mithali Raj has laid out a plan for life after Harmanpreet Kaur: Smriti Mandhana to...
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Jul 13, 2026
India crush England by 270 runs to win the first women’s Test at Lord’s
The first women’s Test ever played at Lord’s ended with India in complete command, a bowling-led effort dismissing England cheaply on the final day as...
Jul 13, 2026
India need four wickets to seal a historic Lord’s Test win
A maiden Test win at Lord’s is four wickets away for India’s women, with England resuming the final day on 130 for 6 and still 327 runs adrift.
Jul 12, 2026
Bhatia’s Lord’s century puts India in command as England stare at a record chase
Yastika Bhatia became the first woman to score a Test century at Lord’s as India declared and set England 457 in the one-off Test.
Jul 12, 2026
Mandhana closes on a Lord’s century as India build a 269-run lead
India were 154 for 1 at stumps on day two of the inaugural women’s Test at Lord’s, with Smriti Mandhana unbeaten on 69 and 31 short of a historic cent...
Jul 11, 2026
Kranti Gaud’s maiden five-for puts India in command at Lord’s
Kranti Gaud took a maiden Test five-wicket haul as India dismissed England for 170 and stretched their lead to 157 on the second day of the historic L...
Jul 11, 2026
Mandhana anchors India to 285 as Lord’s hosts its first women’s Test
Smriti Mandhana’s 83 and three fifties carried India to 285 on the opening day of the first women’s Test ever played at Lord’s, with England replying...
Jul 9, 2026
Pratika Rawal ruled out of India’s Lord’s Test as Priya Punia earns a call-up
India have lost in-form opener Pratika Rawal to a knee injury on the eve of their historic one-off Test at Lord’s, handing uncapped Priya Punia a shot...
Jul 7, 2026
India face England at Lord’s in the ground’s first women’s Test
England host India from July 10 in the first women’s Test ever staged at Lord’s, a landmark that lands 50 years after Rachael Heyhoe Flint first led a...
Jun 28, 2026
Australia knock India out of the Women’s T20 World Cup with a six-wicket chase at Lord’s
Harmanpreet Kaur’s unbeaten 56 dragged India to 170 for 4 at Lord’s, but Ellyse Perry and Ash Gardner chased it down with an over to spare to send Aus...
Jun 28, 2026
India face Australia at Lord’s with a semi-final spot on the line
A win over Australia at Lord’s would send India into the Women’s T20 World Cup semi-finals; defeat leaves them depending on the South Africa v Banglad...
Jun 27, 2026
India’s semi-final spot comes down to a Lord’s date with Australia
Beat Australia at Lord’s on Sunday and India are into the Women’s T20 World Cup semi-finals. Anything less, and they are left watching South Africa’s...
Jun 26, 2026
India eye a semi-final spot against Australia at Lord’s
India’s stop-start group campaign comes down to one game at Lord’s against the six-time champions, with a Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final place there...
Jun 26, 2026
Shafali’s blazing fifty keeps India’s semi-final hopes alive
India survived a messy night at Old Trafford to beat Bangladesh by five wickets, keeping their Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final hopes firmly on track.
Jun 25, 2026
India face a virtual quarter-final against Bangladesh at Old Trafford
India sit second in a congested Group A and need to beat Bangladesh at Old Trafford on Thursday to keep their Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final hopes i...
Jun 24, 2026
Defending champions on the brink as the Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final race tightens
Australia are romping clear and England and the West Indies are unbeaten, but New Zealand’s title defence is on the ropes, with India and South Africa...
Jun 22, 2026
Kapp’s unbeaten 81 floors India for their first World Cup defeat
Marizanne Kapp’s career-best 81 not out powered South Africa to a six-wicket win at Old Trafford, handing India their first defeat of the Women’s T20...
Jun 21, 2026
Mandhana’s record start has India dreaming, but the World Cup still eludes her
Smriti Mandhana is the leading scorer at the Women’s T20 World Cup and has just set an India record for fifties at the tournament. The trophy itself i...
Jun 18, 2026
India and Australia are pulling clear of Group 1, split only by net run rate
Both unbeaten, both winning by a distance, and on a collision course for a June 28 meeting that already looks like a group decider. After two rounds,...
Jun 18, 2026
Shreyanka Patil stretchered off with an ankle injury as India await scans
Shreyanka Patil was stretchered off with an ankle injury during India’s win over the Netherlands, leaving the team waiting on scans for news on the sp...
Jun 16, 2026
India have the balance to end their T20 World Cup wait, but Australia loom
India have never won a Women’s T20 World Cup, but the way they dismantled Pakistan in Birmingham hinted at a side that finally has the bat and the bow...
Jun 15, 2026
New Zealand’s title defence is wobbling, and the Women’s T20 World Cup is clearer for it
The defending champions have stumbled and the favourites have separated themselves. After one round of the Women’s T20 World Cup, here is how the cont...
Jun 15, 2026
India eye debutants Netherlands with momentum and net run rate in mind
India go to Headingley as overwhelming favourites against the Netherlands, but a tough group means the size of the win could matter as much as the win...
Jun 15, 2026
Deepti’s five-for caps Mandhana’s 68 as India rout Pakistan by 64 runs
Deepti Sharma’s career-best 5 for 10 dismantled Pakistan for 106 as India opened their Women’s T20 World Cup with a 64-run win at Edgbaston, Smriti Ma...