Salma Khatun

Trailblazers' skipper Smriti Mandhana says she always believed in her team's potent spin attack to defend a low total in the Women's T20 Challenge final, which her side won by 16 runs against Supernovas here.

Skipper Mithali Raj played a captain's knock by smashing a superb 54 to steer India to a 29-run win against Sri Lanka in the Women's Cricket Asia Tournament.

It's a bizarre love triangle that ended in a murder. Two Murshidabad women strangled their lover on Thursday night in connivance with the man who had been blackmailing them, say police.

A pivotal aspect of sport is teamwork and in five games before Tuesday, it was an essential ingredient missing in India's Women's World Cup campaign. The last edition finalists went into their penultimate league outing against Bangladesh in Hamilton with their backs to the wall.

Indian women's cricket team began their one-day international (ODI) campaign against minnows Bangladesh with a win but not before surviving a major scare.

Riding on half-century from skipper Charlotte Edwards, England women outclassed Bangladesh by 36 runs in a group league encounter of the ICC World T20 on Thursday.

Police on Tuesday arrested Mohd Aziz, the main accused in the rape and murder case of a 27-year-old Salma Khatoon woman.

Velocity skipper Deepti Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl against Trailblazers in the third Women's T20 Challenge on Thursday.

With three out of five earning members of her joint family of 15 losing their jobs since the lockdown, Rajarhat resident Salma Khatun had no clue how her family would manage her marriage expenses due on Sunday. However, on the wedding evening, she could wear the Benarasi saree of her choice, the biryani platter was on and so was the groom's favourite 'rajbhog' among other savouries - thanks to the financial help from the state government's Duare Sarkar outreach programme of doorstep delivery of welfare schemes that allowed Salma to enrol for the Rupashree programme and avail of a one-time financial support for the marriages of poor women.

Supernovas skipper Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and opted to bowl against Trailblazers in the final of the Women's T20 Challenge on Monday. Both teams made one change each from their previous match. Nuzhat Parween came in for D Hemalatha for the Trailblazers, while Supernovas replaced Priya Punia with Pooja Vastrakar.

Four players from champion side Australia featured in the 'Most Valuable Team' of the just-concluded ICC Women's World Cup while none from the Mithali Raj-led Indian side made the cut after their shock group exit.

Pakistan produced a commanding performance to beat Bangladesh by nine wickets and not only register their second consecutive win in the tournament but also keep their semi-final hopes alive.

Captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and India decided to bowl first in the first T20I of their limited-overs tour of Bangladesh on Sunday at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.

The BCCI announced 16-member squads for each of three teams -- Harmanpreet-led Supernovas, Mandhana-led Trailblazers and Deepti-led Velocity. Trailblazers had won the previous edition held in 2020.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced that women's national players will join the second phase of the individual practice session from Monday.

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.

India won the toss and opted to bat first against defending champions Bangladesh in a Women's Asia Cup league match on Saturday. Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur has been rested against the home team and Smriti Mandhana will lead the side in her place.

Defending champions England became the third team to book its place in the semifinals of the Women's World Cup with a comfortable 100-run win over Bangladesh in Wellington on Sunday.

India captain Harmanpreet Kaur is hoping that they will get better pitches to bat on in the three-match ODI series against Bangladesh beginning here on Sunday. India managed to win the T20 series 2-1 but their batters had a tough time on the slow surface at the Shere Bangla National Stadium. The visitors struggled to 95 and 102 in the second and third game while Bangladesh had posted 114 in the series opener.