Commonwealth Games Cricket 2022

[NYRB]

I will leave the poll up for a few days, as I realise this thread was set up fairly late.

But the talk is this Commonwealth Games is a potential pre-cursor for having cricket at the Olympics.

Australia: Meg Lanning (c), Rachael Haynes, Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Grace Harris, Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Tahlia McGrath, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Amanda-Jade Wellington

Barbados: Aaliyah Alleyne, Shanika Bruce, Shai Carrington, Shaunte Carrington, Shamilia Connell, Deandra Dottin, Keila Elliott, Trishan Holder, Kycia Knight, Kyshona Knight, Hayley Matthews, Alisa Scantlebury, Shakera Selman, Tiffany Thorpe, Aaliyah Williams.

England: Heather Knight (c), Maia Bouchier, Katherine Brunt, Alice Capsey, Kate Cross, Freya Davies, Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, Sarah Glenn, Amy Jones, Freya Kemp, Nat Sciver, Bryony Smith, Issy Wong, Danni Wyatt.

India: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Sabbhineni Meghana, Taniya Sapna Bhatia, Yastika Bhatia, Deepti Sharma, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Radha Yadav, Harleen Deol, Sneh Rana.

New Zealand: Sophie Devine (c), Suzie Bates, Eden Carson, Izzy Gaze, Claudia Green, Maddy Green, Brooke Halliday, Hayley Jensen, Fran Jonas, Amelia Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Jess McFadyen, Georgia Plimmer, Hannah Rowe, Lea Tahuhu.

Pakistan: Bismah Maroof (c), Aiman Anwar, Aliya Riaz, Anam Amin, Ayesha Naseem, Diana Baig, Fatima Sana, Gull Feroza, Iram Javed, Kainat Imtiaz, Muneeba Ali Siddiqui, Nida Dar, Omaima Sohail, Sadia Iqbal, Tuba Hassan.

South Africa: Suné Luus (c), Chloé Tryon, Anneke Bosch, Tazmin Brits, Nadine de Klerk, Mignon du Preez, Lara Goodall, Shabnim Ismail, Sinalo Jafta, Ayabonga Khaka, Masabata Klaas, Nonkululeko Mlaba, Delmi Tucker, Laura Wolvaardt

Sri Lanka: Chamari Athapaththu (c), Hasini Perera, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Vishmi Gunaratne, Malsha Shehani, Nilakshi de Silva, Kavisha Dilhari, Ama Kanchana, Achini Kulasuriya, Inoka Ranaweera, Udeshika Prabodhani, Sugandika Kumari, Rashmi de Silva, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Anushka Sanjeewani

 

[NYRB]

All games will be played at Edgbaston

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Have to be warm favourites. Do your thing, ladies.

It’s a shame there’s no men’s competition as well.

 

[NYRB]

outside Australia, what would be a par score batting 1st at Edgbaston for womens?

Would 150 be defendeable for teams of the calibre of SA, India, England playing against each other?

 

[NYRB]

Surprise to see only the 1 WT20I ever played at Birmingham, in Edgbaston. Way back in 2014.

 

[Teen Wolf]

140 was about par at Edgbaston in the Hundred last season. Not much else to go on, but I doubt the venue will have much impact.

South Africa will struggle to defend any realistic total against New Zealand, let alone the others. Kapp's withdrawal and Ismail's dodgy fitness leaves Khaka as the only reliable top bowler.

 

[NYRB]

Have to be warm favourites. Do your thing, ladies.

It’s a shame there’s no men’s competition as well.

There are no prizes in terms of money for winning the Gold medal.

Im not sure the mens team would have been motivated to win gold here to be honest.

 

[NYRB]

India Women have won the toss and have opted to bat

Against Australia

 

[NYRB]

Australia Women (Playing XI): Alyssa Healy(w), Beth Mooney, Meg Lanning(c), Tahlia McGrath, Rachael Haynes, Ashleigh Gardner, Grace Harris, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown

India Women (Playing XI): Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia(w), Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Harleen Deol, Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh

 

[akkaps]

75/2 off the first 10. Looking at 160-170 here. This is looking good.

 

[NYRB]

Kaur with a nice dab down the ground for 4

 

[NYRB]

Verma stepping on the gas now.......big over there.

 

[NYRB]

huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge From Kaur

 

[NYRB]

ive always thought of Kaur as Indias best bat in the short form of the game

 

[NYRB]

Kaur brings up her 50 off 31 balls

 

[cats_09]

And then gets out to a not so great delivery

 

[NYRB]

nice ball from Megan Schutt to get Kaur there

 

[NYRB]

had Kaur left that ball, it would have been a wide

 

[NYRB]

Healy, Lanning the key wickets for India in the chase.

 

[NYRB]

Aussies need 155 off 20 overs to win their first game of the Commonwealth Games

 

[NYRB]

Australia Need 114 runs off 14 overs with 6 wickets in hand

 

[NYRB]

Thakur with figures of 12/4 off 3

 

[NYRB]

Can Thakur get a Michelle Pfeiffer?

 

[BrownYouGun]

Jeez they are a good team

 

[CURVE]

Match winning innings from Gardner. Great support from Harris and King.