Chamari Atapattu

Sri Lanka Women skipper Chamari Atapattu led from the front to help her team pull off a consolation 10-run win over South Africa Women in an inconsequential group match of the ICC World T20.

Velocity skipper Mithali Raj won the toss and elected to bowl against defending champions Supernovas in the opening match of the Women's T20 Challenge on Wednesday.

Sri Lanka women's player Chamari Atapattu is the only player to receive the top contract in 2020 as Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Tuesday offered a new six-month contract to 20 national and 15 emerging women's players.

The Indian women's cricket team on Thursday held its nerves in pressure situations to beat Sri Lanka by seven runs in the second ODI, taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. India also earned two additional points as the match is a part of the ICC Women's Championship.

Defending champions Supernovas will have to get past an upbeat Trailblazers here on Saturday to stay alive in the Women's T20 Challenge.

Supernovas skipper Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and opted to bat against Trailblazers in a must-win game at the Women's T20 Challenge here on Saturday.

Sri Lanka's Chamari Atapattu continued her purple patch, smashing a quick-fire half-century as two-time champions Supernovas posted 146 for six against Trailblazers in a must-win game of the Women's T20 Challenge on Saturday.

The momentum is with defending champions Supernovas as they eye a third straight Women's T20 Challenge title, with a determined Trailblazers standing in their way in the final here on Monday.

Jemimah Rodrigues and Poonam Yadav produced special performances to fire India to a 13-run win over Sri Lanka in the first T20 International of the five-match series on Wednesday.

The top 30 women cricketers from India arrived here on Thursday to take part in the Women's T20 Challenge, which is also popularly known as 'mini WIPL' and scheduled to be held in Sharjah from November 4-9.

Trailblazers' captain Smriti Mandhana recently spoke about making a mental shift to take more responsibility and ensure her promising starts convert into big knocks that can take the team through.

Spinner Radha Yadav tore apart the rival batting line up with a career-best four-wicket haul to help India restrict Sri Lanka to a modest 113 for nine in their ICC Women's T20 World Cup match, here on Saturday.

After an intense contest between the Supernovas and the Trailblazers a couple of days ago, the two teams will be back on the battleground again in Sharjah, but this time for the title clash of the Women’s T20 Challenge on Monday.

India produced a clinical performance to register a convincing nine-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the first ODI of the ICC Women's Championship on Tuesday.

India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur on Saturday said the team management has given Shafali Verma the freedom to play her natural game, which has set the Women's T20 World Cup ablaze.

India's white ball captains Harmanpreet Kaur and Mithali Raj along with their 'double deputy' Smriti Mandhana have been named captains of Supernovas, Trailblazers and Velocity squads respectively for the upcoming women's T20 Challenge scheduled from November 4 to 9 in the UAE.

New Zealand batter Amelia Kerr walked into record books on Wednesday when she blasted a record-breaking unbeaten 232 against Ireland to become the second woman to score an ODI double-hundred at Dublin.

Young Jemimah Rodrigues scored a power-packed 40-ball 57 as Indian women won the third T20 International against Sri Lanka by five wicket on Saturday.

Shafali Verma shone yet again with a blistering 34-ball 47 after Radha Yadav's career-best 4/23 to power India to a 7-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the Women's T20 World Cup. India completed the chase of 114 with 32 balls to spare and entered the semis with an all-win record. Earlier, Radha tore apart the rival batting line and restricted Sri Lanka to a modest 113/9.

Chamari Atapattu smashed a quick-fire fifty as two-time champions Supernovas reached their 3rd successive final with a narrow 2-run win over Trailblazers in a last-ball thriller at the Women's T20 Challenge. After the final league game, all the 3 teams ended with two points each but Supernovas (-0.054) and Trailblazers (+2.109) qualified due to their better NRR than Velocity (-1.869).