The India women's team will play their maiden pink-ball test later this year, against Australia in Perth, cricket boards of both the countries announced on Thursday.
MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia (CA) on Thursday announced that the WACA Ground will host the second-ever women’s day-night Test match when Australia take on India in a multi-format series to kick off the 2021-22 international summer of cricket.
The historic Test match will be the first between the Australian and Indian women’s teams in 15 years, and India’s first-ever women’s day-night Test. The series will also be the first time the two sides meet since the record-breaking ICC Women’s T20 World Cup final at the MCG in 2020.
Following the announcement of the men’s and women’s Ashes and the historic first men’s Test against Afghanistan, the 2021-22 season will feature eight Test matches across seven states and territories in what promises to be an epic summer.
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Cricket by Nic Savage 19th May 2021 8:13 AM Former Australian captain Michael Clarke has hit back after Australia s bowlers released an emotional statement in response to Cameron Bancroft s recent comments regarding the infamous ball-tampering saga of 2018. During an interview with
Kayo is your ticket to the best sport streaming Live & On-Demand. New to Kayo? Try 14-Days Free Now >The 28-year-old s comments revived speculation on whether the banned trio of himself, David Warner and Steve Smith were unfairly treated as scapegoats for the sandpapergate scandal. On Tuesday evening, the quartet of Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon and Hazlewood released a joint statement on the matter, denying any knowledge of ball tampering and taking aim at past players saying we must have known about it, demanding an end to the rumour-mongering .
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Subscriber only The four bowlers in the middle of the reignited sandpaper conspiracy have defended themselves against suggestions by Cameron Bancroft, who was suspended for ball tampering at the time, that they were aware of the subterfuge. Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon and Josh Hazlewood released a joint statement at 5pm on Tuesday addressed to the Australian public. We pride ourselves on our honesty, it reads. So it s been disappointing to see that our integrity has been questioned by some journalists and past players in recent days in regard to the Cape Town Test of 2018.