The spotlight at the WPL Auction naturally fell on Deepti Sharma, and the star India all-rounder lived up to the billing as UP Warriorz used their Right to Match (RTM) card to retain her for a massive ₹3.20 crore. With this, Deepti also became the first player from the UP franchise to cross the ₹3 […]

The 22-year-old Indian women’s opening batter Smriti Mandhana won the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year award – Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award – for her extraordinary batting performances. During the voting period that ran between 1 January and 31 December 2018, the young left-handed batter Mandhana scored 669 runs in 12 ODIs with the average […]