Bangladesh secured their first-ever ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup win as Fargana Hoque’s patient 71 steered them to a historic nine-run victory over Pakistan. The batter anchored the Tigresses to 234 for seven before Fahima Khatun took three late wickets to help restrict Pakistan to 225 for nine, despite Sidra Amin’s superb 104. Pakistan struggled
The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced India’s star all-format batter Shreyas Iyer and White Ferns all-rounder Amelia Kerr were voted ICC Players of the Month for February 2022. Shreyas Iyer earned the ICC Player of the Month award the back of his brilliant white-ball exploits during the home series against West Indies and Sri
South Africa earned another late ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 win as they defeated defending champions England by three wickets with four balls remaining in Tauranga. England were rescued from a poor start by a 107-run partnership from Tammy Beaumont and Amy Jones before Marizanne Kapp fought back with her first international five-wicket haul to set
Australia recovered from a shaky start and put New Zealand to the sword in a 141–run victory to remain undefeated at the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022. A 101-run partnership for the fifth wicket between Ellyse Perry and Tahlia McGrath stabilised Australia’s innings before some big hitting from Ashleigh Gardner lifted them to 269 for eight. New Zealand
Centuries by Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur powered India to a 155–run win over the West Indies in Hamilton. Mandhana and Kaur’s 184-run partnership saw India set the West Indies an ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup record chase of 318. Deandra Dottin looked set to steer West Indies all the way, guiding her side to
West Indian people are loud and proud but few were making much noise about their chances at the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022. That has now changed, according to Shakera Selman. The Maroon Warriors have defeated New Zealand and England in their opening two games, both in dramatic conclusions to put themselves in pole
South Africa sealed a dramatic six-run win to deny Pakistan a first ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup win in 17 games. South Africa’s slow start was rescued by Laura Wolvaardt, whose 75 runs was her highest score in a World Cup, but the Proteas could still only set Pakistan a below-par 224 to win. Pakistan
School students tackle inactivity with programme inspired by women’s rugby, cricket & football World Cups Tākarokaro has been developed as part of the ‘In Our Backyard’ Project which is led by Sport NZ in partnership with MBIE, the Ministry of Education, and four National Sporting Organisations; New Zealand Rugby, Yachting New Zealand, New Zealand Cricket
Amy Satterthwaite hit a fluent 75 and New Zealand’s bowlers suffocated India as the hosts secured a 62–run win to keep the race for the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 semi-finals wide open. The White Ferns batted first and Satterthwaite’s knock off 84 balls and 50 from Amelia Kerr helped them to 260 for
England have lost the first two matches, to Australia, as expected, and to the West Indies, to considerable dismay. Where do we go from here? England may go on to win all their remaining matches. That will leave them wondering how they got off to such a desperate start. But even a sequence of wins
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