On Tuesday (11 June), when Yorkshire Diamonds made the announcement that they had signed Jemimah Rodrigues, India’s latest batting sensation, for the fourth edition of the Women’s Cricket Super League, murmurs went around recalling the ‘other Indian teenager’ who had played for Yorkshire— namely, Sachin Tendulkar. Interestingly, another young kid from Mumbai also represented Yorkshire
Jemimah Rodrigues will become the third Indian to feature in the Women’s Cricket Super League in England after signing with Yorkshire Diamonds for the 2019 season. The 18-year old top-order batter has over the last year become one of India’s mainstays with the bat in the shortest format. Since her international debut in February
(The writer played as a professional for Sikkim in the 2018-19 domestic season) “I have been dreaming of the chance to play for Sikkim for the last six years,” said Dichen Ongmu Lepcha. “I can’t believe it has finally happened.” Dichen is 26 years old. She is a left-hand batter, a right arm medium pacer,
In 2016, I watched as Smriti Mandhana tore into Sri Lanka’s bowling attack at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. It was a practice match ahead of the World T20, and Mandhana was coming off a successful tour of Australia, where she had scored her first international century. She was batting at No.3 in that
Auckland, Wellington and Hamilton. Three different venues, three types of surfaces, but much the same story for India all three times – they got themselves into winning positions and then found a way to lose from there. In the final T20I against New Zealand at Seddon Park in Hamilton on Sunday (February 10), India faltered
India played their 100th T20I on Friday (February 8), but it wasn’t a happy game. The team suffered a nail-biting loss in the second T20I against New Zealand at Eden Park in Auckland. Suzie Bates anchored the hosts’ chase of 136 with a measured 52-ball 62, helping New Zealand seal the T20I series with a
“Tactically, definitely, I would say I have to bat till 20 overs. That is the best option. The more I bat till 18 overs, we won’t collapse. Because… the top order, if they bat till 18-20 overs, it becomes very easy for the (rest of the) batting unit to just revolve around that batter. That
New Zealand were slow out of the blocks, poor with both bat and ball and quite muddled in their approach through the first two ODIs of their three-match series against India. They just didn’t ‘turn up’. Like good hosts (athithi devo bhavah and all that) they allowed India to build their confidence early in the series
As India sealed their first ODI series win in New Zealand with an emphatic eight-wicket victory in the second ODI in Mount Maunganui on Tuesday (January 29), Ekta Bisht showed just why she is one of the team’s canniest operators. Although Smriti Mandhana stole their thunder late in the day with an unbeaten 90 in
“I can’t think of a better display from an opening partnership, men or women, for a long, long time,” said Emily Drumm, former New Zealand captain-turned-commentator. India were sitting pretty on 166 for no loss in the 30th over, with Smriti Mandhana hurtling towards her fourth ODI century, batting on 88, and Jemimah Rodrigues with