The India men's national cricket team,also known as Team India or the Men in Blue,represents India in men's international cricket. It is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI),and is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test,One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the governing body for cricket in India. Its headquarters are situated at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
The India women's national cricket team,nicknamed the Women in Blue,represents India in women's international cricket. It is governed by Board of Control for Cricket in India
Mithali Dorai Raj is an Indian cricketer,who plays as a right-handed batter. She played for India between 1999 and 2022,and captained the side between 2004 and 2022. Mithali is the highest run-scorer in women’s international cricket and is considered as one of the greatest female cricketers of all time.
A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket,played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC),in which each team faces a maximum of twenty overs. The matches have top-class status and are the highest T20 standard. The game is played under the rules of Twenty20 cricket. Starting from the format's inception in 2005,T20I status only applied to Full Members and some Associate Member teams. However,in April 2018,the ICC announced that it would grant T20I status to all its 105 members from 1 January 2019.
Sophie Frances Monique Devine is a New Zealand sportswoman,who has represented New Zealand in both cricket for the New Zealand national women's cricket team,and in field hockey as a member of the New Zealand women's national field hockey team. She has since focused on cricket. She is known for not wearing a helmet when batting,a rarity in 21st century cricket. In December 2017,she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year.
Murugesan Dickeshwashankar Thirush Kamini is an Indian cricketer who has played 39 women's one-day internationals for the Indian women's cricket team.
The Indian Premier League (IPL),also officially known as TATA IPL for sponsorship reasons,is a professional men's Twenty20 cricket league,contested by ten teams based out of seven Indian cities and three Indian states. The league was founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. It is usually held between March and May of every year and has an exclusive window in the ICC Future Tours Programme.
The Champions League Twenty20,also referred to as the CLT20,was an annual international Twenty20 Cricket competition played between qualifying domestic teams from some major cricketing nations. The competition was launched in 2008 with the first edition held in October 2009. It was jointly owned by the Board of Control for Cricket in India,Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa,and was chaired by N. Srinivasan,who was also the chairman of the ICC. Sundar Raman was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the CLT20 as well as the IPL. The most recent champions were the Chennai Super Kings,who won their second title in 2014.
Danévan Niekerk is a South African cricketer born in Pretoria and educated at Centurion High School. A leg spin bowler,she has appearances in Test,One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) representing South Africa and is the women's team captain in all three forms since June 2016. She was the first bowler for South Africa to take 100 wickets in WODIs.
Smriti Shriniwas Mandhana is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women's national team. In June 2018,the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) named her as the Best Women's International Cricketer. In December 2018,the International Cricket Council (ICC) awarded her with the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the best female cricketer of the year. On 30 December 2021,she became a nominee of the ICC Women's T20 Player of the Year. In December 2021,she,Tammy Beaumont,Lizelle Lee and Gaby Lewis were nominated for the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year. In January 2022,the ICC awarded her with the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year.
Poonam Yadav is an Indian cricketer who plays for the national women's cricket team as a leg-spin bowler. She made her debut in International cricket on 5 April 2013 in a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) match against Bangladesh. Yadav's debut in Test Series on 16 November 2014 against South Africa and her ODI debut was on 12 April 2013 against Bangladesh.
Hardik Himanshu Pandya is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the India national cricket team at the international level and the Baroda cricket team domestically. He currently captains the newly debuted franchise Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and led them to their maiden IPL title in the 2022 edition. He is an all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm fast-medium. His elder brother Krunal Pandya is also an international cricketer.
Deepti Bhagwan Sharma is an Indian cricketer who plays for Bengal,Sydney Thunder and India. She is an all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm off break and is currently ranked 4th in the top all-rounders in the ICC Cricket Rankings. Deepti Sharma is also the current third highest individual scorer by a woman cricketer in ODIs.
Shekhar Naik is an Indian blind cricketer and a former captain of the India national blind cricket team. He captained India to victories at the T20 Blind Cricket World Cup in 2012 and Blind Cricket World Cup in 2014. In 2017,the Government of India awarded Naik with Padma Shri,the country's fourth highest civilian honour. He is a Right-handed batsman and also a wicket-keeper.
The 2021 Indian Premier League,also known as IPL 14, or for sponsorship reasons,VivoIPL 2021,was the fourteenth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL),a professional Twenty20 cricket league established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007.
The Kashmir Premier League is a professional Twenty20 cricket league organized by Pakistan Cricket Board in the Pakistani administrated side of the Kashmir. League was founded in 2021. The league consists of seven franchises;six teams representing major cities in Kashmir,while one team is representing the Kashmiri diaspora. Each team plays the group stage matches in a single round-robin tournament with the top four teams qualifying for the playoffs and ultimately for the final.Matches played in the Kashmir Premier League do not have the official T20 status.
The 2022 Indian Premier League,also known as IPL 15 or for sponsorship reasons,Tata IPL 2022,was the fifteenth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL),a professional Twenty20 cricket league established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. The tournament was played from 26 March 2022 to 29 May 2022. The group stage of the tournament was played entirely in the state of Maharashtra,with Mumbai and Pune hosting the matches. The full schedule of the tournament was announced on 6 March 2022.
Eden Jean Carson is a New Zealand cricketer who currently plays for Otago and New Zealand. She plays as a right-arm off break bowler.
