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C hanging rooms can be lonely places. When Isa Guha started playing cricket she was the only girl in an all-boys team and when she was only a little older, the only girl in an all-women’s one. A lot of the women she played with and against in her 10 years of international cricket had similar stories, so do a lot of the women she watches and talks about now, a decade later, in her second career as a presenter and commentator. “Being the only girl in a team, that’s still quite common,” Guha says. “It probably helped my cricket, because I was spending so much time out of my comfort zone, but it still came with the same feelings of isolation.”   Dominant Australia hailed as best ever after sixth Women’s T20 World Cup triumph Read more   Last year, Guha launched a non-profit mentoring organisation,  Take Her Lead , working in women’s cricket. Before the launch, they commissioned a survey of 300 young female cricketers about their experiences. “I know we all feel ...

Ian Chappell didn't mince his words as he tore into the Indian team after consistent debates over pitch conditions in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. India faced a heavy defeat to Australia in the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on Wednesday, with the visitors registering a first win to take the scoreline 2-1 in the four-match series. Australia, thus, also became the first team to qualify for the  World Test Championship  (WTC) final that takes place between June 7-11 at the Oval, as questions continue to rise over the pitch conditions in the ongoing series. The first day of the Test in Indore saw sharp turn and uneven bounce in the first session of the day, as India lost seven wickets before Lunch. It initially seemed the Test would finish inside the first two days before Marnus Labuschagne and Usman Khawaja forged a solid 96-run partnership to gain an upper hand over hosts in the first innings. With over 4 degree of average turn in the first session, many former cricket...

India's decision to bat first on   a raging turner   did not help their cause as the track at the Holkar Stadium in Indore offered more than enough assistance straight up, allowing Australia's spinners to dominate. In a frenetic first hour that saw them lose half their side to the spinners, the first breakthrough could have easily come through their returning pacer Mitchell Starc. Twice in the first over Australia opted against going for a review with Rohit Sharma being adjudged out on replays each time. The first ball of the innings saw them not go up for a caught behind appeal, and then for an LBW appeal when Starc shaped one back into Rohit. On field umpire Nitin Menon got both wrong and India's openers managed to get off to a quick start against the pacers. The introduction of spin in the 6th over, however, turned the game on its head. Matthew Kuhnemann beat Rohit Sharma's attempted loft and had him stumped in his first over, and topped it up by having Shubman Gill ...

South Africa showed commendable fighting spirit to upset England in the semifinal but they will need to stitch together a perfect game to topple the mighty Australia Press Trust of India Updated: February 25, 2023 05:01 PM IST Read Time: 3 min South Africa beat England in the Women's T20 World Cup semi-final. © AFP South Africa will get their fairytale finish at home if they find a way to halt the Australian juggernaut in the Women's T20 World Cup final in Cape Town on Sunday. South Africa showed commendable fighting spirit to upset England in the semifinal but they will need to stitch together a perfect game to topple the mighty Australia, who are the record five-time champions and are in their seventh successive final. South Africa have made rapid strides over the past 12 months and after making the semifinals of the ODI World Cup last year, they entered their maiden final of an ICC event here on Friday. In  Laura Wolvaardt  and  Tazmin Brits , a former world junior jav...

The Supreme Court directed a court in Dwarka to grant interim bail to senior Congress leader  Pawan Khera, who was arrested   by the Assam Police from the Delhi airport, earlier Thursday. Khera was deplaned and arrested from an Indigo flight to Raipur, after an FIR was lodged against him for his comments on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Also Read  | Pawan Khera: The backroom boy who embraced limelight as voice of Congress In its order, a bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and MR Shah said, “In order to protect the petitioner until such date as he applies for regular bail before the jurisdictional court upon the FIRs being transferred to one and the same jurisdiction, we direct that till the next date of listing, the petitioner shall be released on interim bail by the court of the competent magistrate in Delhi where he is to be produced this evening. The above order shall remain in operation till Tuesday”. Appearing for Khera, seni...