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Australia won the ICC Women's world cup winning the final against Indian team by 9 runs in Lord's Cricket Stadium, England. The final turned out to be nail bitter with India's taileneders loosing it to lack of experience in pressure situations. Anya Shrubsole's 6 wickets haul snatched World Cup from Indian teams gasp Earlier in the day, England won the toss and opted to bat first. They had a decent start with their openers batting on a cautious note. However they lost the first wicket on 47 runs with Gayakwad getting better of Winfield. That opened the gate and from 47 for none England soon reduced to 63 for 3. Then experienced Sarah Taylor and Natalie Sciver put on a 83 runs stand before former got out for 45. Indian bowling attack spearhead Jhulan Goswami got Taylor and Frank Wilson on consecutive balls in her comeback spell. Sciver carried on to get her fifty but only to collapse soon on 51 to give Goswami her third wicket. Goswami pulled India back into the

Mithali Raj shines with the bat and Rajeshwari toppled New Zealand with bowl to take India to the Semi finals of the ongoing Women's World cup, 2017. India will now face the defending champions Australia in second Semifinals on Thursday, 20th July. It was a D-day for both India and New Zealand. Both teams had to win the match to book semi final berth of the tournament. It started with New Zealand winning the toss and inviting Indian team to bat first. Poonam Raut, the centurion from the last match had a bad day today as she got out for just 4 runs as India lost the first wicket in 4th over of the innings. Following her soon was Mandhana who had another bad outing with the bat in the tournament. She got out making mere 13 runs. Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet then took the charge of Indian batting. Mithali, who has been in sublime form and has been leading from the front rescuing Indian batting on many occasions again played a superb innings today. She along with Harman rescued Indi

Mag Lanning and Ellyse Perry gave an unbeaten stand of 124 runs to help Australia beat India in a league stage by 8 wickets.  Australia won the toss and asked India to bat first. India once again had a bad start with Mandhana getting out for just 3 runs. After the brilliant start in the tournament, Mandhana has not cashed into her form and today it was the fourth consecutive time that she got out without getting into the double figures.  Mithali Raj came into bat after the fall of first wicket and continued with her sublime form in the tournament. She along with Raut started to move the scoreboard along.  Raut was looking in great form and was hitting the ball very nicely. Mithali's inning was little on a slower side, however she completed her fifty in the 33rd over of the innings before getting out for 69 from 114 deliveries.  Mithali Raj became the first Women cricketer to complete 6000 runs in international cricket  Mithali Raj en-route her innings today became t

BCCI ended all the speculation related to appointment of the new coach and announced Ravi Shastri to be the head coach of the Indian cricket team. Zaheer Khan will assist him in the bowling department being appointed as a bowling coach. Rahul Dravid has been given the charge to look after the Indian batting in overseas test tours. Ravi Shastri will be the new head coach of Indian cricket team till World Cup, 2019 Ravi Shastri was always the front runner for the post. He outran likes of Virender Sehwag, Tom Moody, Richard Pybus to be selected as the new coach. Ravi Shastri shares healthy relationship with few Indian players along with the Captain Virat Kohli  Rahul Dravid will be the batting consultant of Test team overseas  Zaheer Khan will be the bowling consultant  Interviews of the shortlisted candidates were taken yesterday by the former Indian team greats Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar who are the members of the advisory committee set by the BCCI. Sour

Zimbabwe created history winning an ODI series against Sri-Lanka in their courtyard. They won the fifth and last match to take the series 3-2. It can be eyed as the lowest point for the Sri-Lankan team who had never lost to the bottom ranked teams at home. Zimbabwe won an away series after eight years Zimbabwe won the fifth match against Sri-Lanka by 3 wickets while chasing the target of 204 runs. Srilanka batting first could only manage 203 runs from their 50 overs in the series decider. It was a poor batting performance from them as none of their batsmen were able to score freely against the brilliant spin bowling display from Raza and cremer. They both took wickets and were very economical. They gave no loose balls to any of the Sri-Lankan batters. Gunathilaka and Gunaratne both made their individual fifties but they both batted with a poor strike rate of 60.47 and 72.84 respectively. Sri Lanka batsmen played very slow and were unable to even rotate strike for singles and

Evin Lewis played remarkable innings of 125 runs from just 62 deliveries to help WI win the only T20I against India and win the one-off T20 series 1-0. This was his second century against India in T20s having achieved the same feat almost an year back in Florida. Chris Gayle who was included in the team couldn't do much with bat but Evin Lewis produced Gayle like innings in the centre. It rained sixes from his bat and none of the Indian bowlers had any answer to his brutal hitting. Evin Lewis made 125 runs and made his second century against India in T20I  Coin didn't favor Virat Kohli for the sixth time in as many matches in the tour. WI once again won the toss and elected to bowl first. Virat had called for heads in all 5 ODIs and lost the toss, he called for tails in the T20 and still lost it. Virat,  as was expected from him, opened the batting along with Dhawan. Both of them started to fire from the start. Virat started the India innings with a four on first ball of

India will be end up their campaign in WI with a lone T20 to be played in Sabina Park, Kingston. Virat's men have already won the one day series 3-1 and are reckoned as favourites for the T20 considering the current form. But then their is a twist in the tale, opponents have strengthened their T20 squad. Arguably the best T20 batsman in the world, Chris Gayle, Pollard and Narine have been recalled for the match. Chris Gayle last played an international T20 in World Cup, 2016 Chris Gayle will be playing an international T20 after the gap of more then one year. His last T20 for WI was the final of World T20 in April,2016. Players like Pollard, Braithwaite, Samuel Badree, Sunil Narine, Marlon Samuels making a comeback along with Gayle will give WI the much needed firepower. Gayle brings the firepower to WI batting lineup Pollard and Samuels are key in the middle order Narine can take wickets at great economy  India will also look to make some changes to the playing 11. R

Virat Kohli slammed his 18th century while chasing in the fifth match against WI yesterday, winning the match by 8 wickets to take the series 3-1. He surpassed the Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar's record of 17 century while chasing. Virat Kohli's 111* steered India to a comfortable win against WI chasing the target of 206. WI won the toss in the fifth and the final ODI of the bilateral series and elected to bat first. Opener Lewis and K Hope tried to stay on the wicket for a while. Lewis however couldn't resist for too long and chipped one into the hands of Kohli standing at the short cover on the bowling of Pandya. Shai hope then joined his brother Kyle hope to take the innings ahead. Shai hope had shown good form in the series and carried on with it. Both the brothers batted well and took the score to 76 runs before Kyle hope played one at short mid wicket where Dhawan took a simple catch to dismiss the batsman for 46 runs of just 50 balls with 9 boundaries in it.

Indian women's team continued with their winning streak, they won fourth straight match in the ongoing ICC women's world cup, 2017. They defeated Sri Lanka by 16 runs to move closer to confirm a semi final berth in the tournament. Sri Lankan middle  order gave some worries to Indian team chasing their score of 232 runs but Indian side held onto their nerves to take the match away. India won the toss and elected to bat first. Once again the star southpaw Samriti Mandhana failed to give the good start and got out for just 8 runs. India soon lost the other opener P Raut making 16 runs on the team score of 38 runs in the 11th over. Indian batswomen stabled things after two early wickets. Captain Mitali Raj and Deepti Sharma both played well and both reached to their fifties. Partnership of 118 runs between Mitali and Deepti helped India score 232/8 from their 40 overs.  Deepti Sharma played well, hitting 10 fours in her innings before getting out for well made 78 runs. Mi

Cricket is deemed as religion in India. Everything related to it certainly becomes a national issue. As Indian cricket team is looking for it's new coach after Anil Kumble, apparently due to his spat with the current captain of the team Virat Kohli, resigned from the esteemed post just few days before his contract as coach was about to end, applicants have started applying for the job from around the world. Ravi Shastri, former Indian player and Former director, Indian cricket team notably the front runner to get selected for the post ended any speculation whatsoever about whether he will apply for the post or not and handed over his CV to the concerned authorities on 3rd of July. Virender Sehwag, Tom Moody, Richard Pybus, Phil Simmons are the few other probables to get selected for this esteemed post. Advisory committee comprising former players Souray Gangly, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman will take the interviews of the candidates on 10th July, one day after the deadline of

                                       Record breaking spell of 5 for 18 from 10 overs by left arm spinner Ekta Bisht helped India clinch victory against their arch rivals Pakistan. Both teams were playing their 3rd group stage match of ICC women's world cup, 2017.                   Indian captain Mitali Raj won the toss and elected to bat first. Raut and Mandhana opened the batting for India as they have been doing in this world cup. Start was not good as India lost their first wicket in just 4th over for 8 runs when Mandhana got out LBW for just 2 runs on the bowling of fast bowler Diana Baig. Deepti Sharma came on the crease at no 3 and started playing very cautiously along with Poonam Raut. Indians had a very slow start with Pakistan bowlers were bowling at good line and length and not giving much scoring options to both batswomen. Poonam Raut(47) and Shushma Verma(33) helped India post 169 runs against Pakistan Deepti Sharma stayed on the crease for 63 balls making