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India vs Australia, 1st Women's ODI: Preview, Fantasy XI Predictions, Pitch And Weather Reports

The first game of Australia Women's three-match ODI Series 2023-24 against hosts India will start at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on 28th December at 1:30 PM IST. Australia Women are unbeaten in their last four matches in the format. On the other hand, India Women have won two games while losing and drawing one apiece. Both teams last played against each other in the ICC Women's World Cup 2022 where Pooja Vastrakar scored the highest fantasy points for India Women with 107 while Meg Lanning topped the fantasy points leaderboard for Australia Women with 126. Australia won that match by six wickets and three balls to spare chasing 277.

David Warner Becomes Australia's 2nd Highest Run Scorer, Goes Past This Great

Opener David Warner surpassed former skipper and legendary batter Steve Waugh to become the second-highest run-scorer for Australia. Warner made this upward movement in record books during the second Test against Pakistan, a Boxing Day affair, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Tuesday. In the first innings, Warner scored a steady 38 in 83 balls. His knock had three boundaries.

'Look Inward To Challenge Best Sides': Amol Muzumdar's Mantra For Indian Women's Cricket Team

Without fretting over opposition's achievements and threats they pose, the need to focus inward was one clear message delivered to the Indian Women cricket team under him, said head coach Amol Muzumdar on Wednesday. Having beaten both their fancied opponents England and Australia in consecutive one-off Tests here, in-form India has now set sights on extracting maximum result from the limited-overs series against Alyssa Healy's side, beginning Thursday. The three-match ODI series will be followed by a T20I series for as many games.

Watch: Stunned Babar Azam's Expression Says It All As Pat Cummins Cleans Him Up With Absolute Peach

Pakistan's former skipper Babar Azam failed to contribute with the bat one more time as Australia skipper Pat Cummins cleaned him up for a score of just 1 run. Pakistan's top-order did well in tackling Australia's bowling attack, with the likes of Abdullah Shafique and Shan Masood scoring half-centuries. Babar was expected to carry the momentum forward after the duo's dismissal but he could only score one run in 6 balls before Cummins bowled a ripper on the 7th delivery to send him packing.

India Suffer Hardik Pandya Blow For Afghanistan T20Is, All-Rounder Likely To Miss Series: Report

Star Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya is likely be missing the T20I series against Afghanistan, but will be fit before the Indian Premier League (IPL) from his ankle injury, a source told ANI. Pandya was part of India's ICC Cricket World Cup squad. He played four matches, picking five wickets with the best bowling figures of 2/34 and scoring 11* against Australia in his only innings before an ankle injury sustained during a league stage game against Bangladesh on October 19 ruled him out of the tournament.

Cummins leads Australia fightback after Pakistan take early honours

MELBOURNE : Pakistan threatened to take charge of the second test after dismissing Australia for 318 and were making a good start to their reply on Wednesday but were reduced to 194 for six at stumps after the intervention of home skipper Pat Cummins.

Djokovic wants to emulate Brady and play on into his 40s

RIYADH: Novak Djokovic has no plans to hang up his racket any time soon and is hoping he might be able to emulate American football great Tom Brady by extending his career well past his 40th birthday, the 36-year-old Serbian said on Tuesday (Dec 26).

"Qualities You Like In A Man?" Question Stumps Smriti Mandhana. She Replies, "Accha Ladka..."

Smriti Mandhana is one of the trailblazers in Indian sport currently. The Indian women's cricket team batter is one of the star batter of the side. She has so far played six ODIs, 80 ODIs and 125 T20Is scoring over 6000 runs across formats. In the recently concluded Test match against Australia, Mandhana scored 74 and 38* as India registered their maiden win over the side in a women's Test match. The India star recently came on an episode of 'Kaun Banega Crorepati', hosted by Amitabh Bachchan, along with Ishan Kishan. There she faced an out of the box question.

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India vs Australia, 1st Women's ODI: Preview, Fantasy XI Predictions, Pitch And Weather Reports

David Warner Becomes Australia's 2nd Highest Run Scorer, Goes Past This Great

'Look Inward To Challenge Best Sides': Amol Muzumdar's Mantra For Indian Women's Cricket Team

Watch: Stunned Babar Azam's Expression Says It All As Pat Cummins Cleans Him Up With Absolute Peach

India Suffer Hardik Pandya Blow For Afghanistan T20Is, All-Rounder Likely To Miss Series: Report

Cummins leads Australia fightback after Pakistan take early honours

Djokovic wants to emulate Brady and play on into his 40s

"Qualities You Like In A Man?" Question Stumps Smriti Mandhana. She Replies, "Accha Ladka..."