English women on top

English women maintained their supremacy in world cricket as they beat New Zealand by six wickets in the final of Twenty20 World Cup at Lord’s here on Sunday. They had won the One-Day International World Cup beating the same opposition earlier this year in March.

The game had no trappings of a final and was heavily loaded in the home side’s favour after New Zealand was all out with just 85 on the board. Fast bowler Katherine Brunt was the chief tormentor. She ran through the top order to return with astonishing figures of 4-0-6-3 that strangled the White Ferns.

Only four Kiwi batters could get into the double figures with Amy Satterthwaite top-scoring with a painstaking 19 churned off 42 balls. Nicola Shaw and Jenny Gunn were the other English bowlers who proved too good for their rivals, scalping two wickets each as the New Zealanders paraded to the pavilion.

To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.dc-epaper.com

Nagpur, Vizag new venues, match dates skirt voting

The Indian Premier League revised schedule sent last week, which avoids any clash with polling dates, has raised hopes for the Twenty20 tournament with the Home Ministry more amenable to the dates except for a few matches in certain high-profile venues like Mumbai where election-related security concerns are quite high. Fresh opin ion of states has been sought while discussions with IPL authorities are underway.

The tournament had come under cloud in the wake of the terror attack on Sri Lankan players in Lahore which raised concerns in the Home Ministry about the security aspect of the IPL tournament as it clashed with Lok Sabha election dates.

With organisers drawing up a revised schedule from April 10 to May 24 , the Home Ministry is learnt to be by and large fine with the revised dates, except a few matches to be held just prior to election dates.

To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.indianexpress.com