India national women's cricket team



The Indian women's cricket team is the national women's cricket team of India. Despite the photos on this page, their uniforms are similar to the men's team. The Indian women's cricket team played their first Test match in 1976/1977, when they drew with the West Indies in a six-match series. The Indian women's cricket team won their first Asia Cup in 2004. Subsequently, they won 3 more Asia Cups. The Indian women's cricket team reached the finals of 2005 World Cup, losing to eventual champions, Australia.[2]  Mithali Raj is the current captain of the Indian Women's Cricket team.[3]



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[hide]  *1 History  ==History[edit] == Members of the Indian cricket team before aWomen's Cricket World Cup game in SydneyThe British brought cricket to India in the early 1700s, with the first cricket match played in 1721.[4]  The first Indian cricket club was established by the Parsi community in Bombay, in 1848; the club played their first match against the Europeans in 1877.[5]  The first official Indian cricket team was formed in 1911 and toured England, where they played English county teams.[6] The India team made their Test debut against England in 1932.[7]  Around the same time (1934), the first women's Test was played between England and Australia.[8]  However, women's cricket arrived in India much later; the Women's Cricket Association of India was formed in 1973.[9]  The Indian women's team played their first Test match in 1976, against the West Indies.[10]
 * 2 Current squad
 * 3 Tournament history
 * 3.1 Asia Cup
 * 3.1.1 One-Day Internationals
 * 3.1.2 Twenty20 Internationals
 * 4 Records
 * 4.1 Test cricket
 * 4.2 ODI cricket
 * 5 See also
 * 6 References

As part of the International Cricket Council's initiative to develop women's cricket, the Women's Cricket Association of India was merged with the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2006.[11] ==Current squad<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == ==Tournament history<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">''Note- In the 1997 World Cup, a match was abandoned between India and Sri Lanka. In 2005 World Cup, a match was abandoned between India and Australia. Both these matches are not included in any categories.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19] '' <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;"> ===Asia Cup<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ====One-Day Internationals<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==== <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Note – The 2 matches played by the Indian team against the Bangladesh team during the 2008 Asia Cup are not included as One Day Internationals ====Twenty20 Internationals<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==== ==Records<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == ===Test cricket<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Test record versus other nationsSource ===ODI cricket<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ===
 * 3. Mithali Raj
 * 5. Rumeli Dhar
 * 8. Ekta Bisht
 * 9. Archana Das
 * 14. Poonam Raut
 * 16. Thirush Kamini
 * 20. Anjum Chopra
 * 23. Priyanka Roy
 * 24. Jhulan Goswami
 * 26. Reema Malhotra
 * 28. Samantha Lobatto
 * 30. Mona Meshram
 * 31. Gouher Sultana
 * 40. Neha Tanwar
 * 44. Amita Sharma
 * 55. Sulakshana Naik
 * 78. Anagha Deshpande
 * 84. Harmanpreet Kaur (c)
 * 99. Nagarajan Niranjana
 * Soniya Dabir
 * Diana David
 * Shilpa Gupta
 * Karu Jain
 * Veda Krishnamurthy
 * Rasanara Parwin
 * Anuja Patil
 * Snehal Pradhan
 * Shubhlakshmi Sharma
 * Highest team total: 467 v England, 14 August 2002 at County Ground, Taunton, England
 * Highest individual score: 214, Mithali Raj v England, 14 August 2002 at County Ground, Taunton, England
 * Best innings bowling: 8/53, Neetu David v England, 24 November 1995 at Jamshedpur, India
 * Best match bowling: 10/78, Jhulan Goswami v England, 29 August 2006 at County Ground, Taunton, England
 * Highest team total: 298/2 v West Indies, 26 February 2004 at Jamadoba, India
 * Highest individual score: 138 not out, Jaya Sharma v Pakistan, 30 December 2005 at National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan
 * Best innings bowling: 6/10, Mamatha Maben v Sri Lanka, 25 April 2004 at Asgiriya Stadium, Sri Lanka