Oct 21, 2026
Harmanpreet Kaur hit 91 off 41 in her first big innings since giving up the captaincy, and India swept Zimbabwe 3-0
Shafali Verma’s 69 helped India to 216 for 7 in Raipur, and Zimbabwe finished 92 runs short in the third T20I.
Smriti Mandhana
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Oct 19, 2026
Niki Prasad took wickets with her first two balls for India, and Shafali’s 55 off 25 sealed the Zimbabwe series
India held Zimbabwe to 102 for 8 in Raipur and chased it in 8.5 overs, giving Smriti Mandhana an unbeatable 2-0 lead with one T20I to play.
Oct 17, 2026
India were 19 for 4 chasing 115, and debutant Niki Prasad saw them home against Zimbabwe in Raipur
Deepti Sharma’s 49 and an unbeaten 39 from Niki Prasad on debut rescued India’s chase as they beat Zimbabwe by four wickets in the first women’s T20I.
Oct 16, 2026
Punam Raut top-scored in the 2017 World Cup final, and she has retired from international cricket at 37
Punam Raut, India’s top scorer in the 2017 World Cup final and one half of the 320-run opening stand with Deepti Sharma, has retired from all internat...
Oct 16, 2026
Zimbabwe have lost all 18 T20Is this year, and Mandhana starts her captaincy against them in Raipur tonight
India Women meet Zimbabwe for the first time at 7pm IST, with Shafali Verma as the new vice-captain and the No. 3 spot still open.
Oct 7, 2026
Smriti Mandhana has led India in 22 white-ball games, and now the job is hers in all three formats
The BCCI named Mandhana as Harmanpreet Kaur’s successor on Tuesday, with Shafali Verma and Deepti Sharma as her vice-captains for India’s first series...
Oct 6, 2026
Harmanpreet Kaur led India in 155 T20Is, and she has given up the captaincy in all three formats
Harmanpreet Kaur has stepped down as India women’s captain after a run of three titles in a year, and will carry on as a player.
Sep 30, 2026
Mumbai Indians have seven WPL places to fill with one crore, and Perry is back at RCB
The five WPL franchises filed their retention lists on Monday. RCB kept Ellyse Perry, UP Warriorz have the biggest purse, and Mumbai have the least ro...
Sep 22, 2026
Mandhana hit seven sixes in 45 balls, and Sri Lanka were bowled out for 69
India retained their Asian Games women’s cricket gold in Nisshin, beating Sri Lanka by 147 runs after posting the highest total the tournament has pro...
Sep 22, 2026
India and Sri Lanka play a second final in nine days, and Shafali Verma comes into it off 100 from 49 balls
India defend their Asian Games cricket title against Sri Lanka at Korogi Sports Park on Tuesday, nine days after beating the same opponent in the Wome...
Sep 19, 2026
Vadodara International Cricket Stadium: pitch report, records and the 20 women’s matches to one men’s
The Kotambi ground in Vadodara opened in December 2024 and has staged 21 matches above domestic level. Twenty of them were women’s cricket, which make...
Sep 17, 2026
The WPL auction is in Kochi on October 28, and the deadline that decides it is September 28
Kochi gets the auction, but the WPL 2027 squads will really be settled before the end of this month.
Sep 16, 2026
India’s women have no group stage in Japan, and their gold medal defence starts against the hosts
Eight teams, four quarter-finals and a gold decided in six days. India play Japan on Friday morning, three days after winning the Asia Cup in Dubai.
Sep 16, 2026
Charani is the first Indian past 800 rating points, and Deepti has moved up to No. 2
Shree Charani’s four for 20 in the Women’s Asia Cup final took her to 804 rating points, the highest figure any Indian has held in the ICC’s women’s T...
Sep 15, 2026
Kranti Gaud took the first wicket of the Asia Cup final, and the ICC has fined her for how she celebrated it
The ICC has sanctioned India’s Kranti Gaud over her dismissal celebration in the Women’s Asia Cup final, a Level 1 charge she admitted without a heari...
Sep 14, 2026
Sri Lanka took their medals, and India left the Asia Cup final without the trophy again
India won the Women’s Asia Cup in Dubai on Sunday and did not collect the trophy, for the same reason their men did not collect theirs a year ago. The...
Sep 14, 2026
Shafali and Mandhana put on 129, and Sri Lanka were all out for 111
India beat Sri Lanka by 72 runs in Dubai to win the Women’s Asia Cup for an eighth time, two years after losing the final to the same opponents in Dam...
Sep 12, 2026
Deepti Sharma has 11 wickets at 3.63, and the captain she bowls at on Sunday has 11 of her own
India and Sri Lanka both reach the Women’s Asia Cup final in Dubai with four wins from four. The last time the two met in a final, Sri Lanka won the f...
Sep 9, 2026
India chased 56 in 8.4 overs to finish the group, and Bangladesh are next
Three wins, three opponents bowled out for under 70, and a net run rate more than double anyone else’s. India start Thursday’s Women’s Asia Cup semi-f...
Sep 8, 2026
Deepti Sharma has eight Asia Cup wickets for 14 runs, and it moved her up two places
India’s two spinners now sit first and sixth in the ICC women’s T20I bowling rankings, two days before a semi-final whose opponent was still being dec...
Sep 4, 2026
Mandhana made 124 of India’s 193, and the middle order still has not batted
Smriti Mandhana’s 124 off 64 balls in Dubai was the highest T20I score by an India woman and moved her past Mithali Raj as the leading run scorer in w...
Sep 3, 2026
India vs Pakistan women’s head-to-head record: every result in T20Is and ODIs
India have won 27 of the 30 women’s internationals between the two and lead 15-3 in T20s. Pakistan’s three wins came by a combined 16 runs, which is t...
Sep 3, 2026
India won by 94 and still have a batting problem, and Hong Kong are next in Dubai
The margin against Thailand was 94 runs. The collapse buried inside it is the thing worth worrying about, and Pakistan are two days away.
Aug 29, 2026
Thailand won the Asia Cup opener by six runs, and India play them on Sunday
Marina Lamplough took four wickets for 11 runs and Hong Kong, China still lost. Thailand’s six-run win in the Women’s Asia Cup opener sets up India’s...