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India Women in England 2014

Reliving the triumph of 2006

India Women's cricketer Snehal Pradhan reminisces about the last time the women's team played a Test in England, a historic win made all the more memorable by Jhulan Goswami's bowling

Women's cricket

Just like the men of the 90s

Snehal Pradhan writes that the current India Women's side resembles the men's team of the 1990s, which was "famously talented and infamously inconsistent", and hopes that the women can turn it around too

Australian cricket

Chasing the men down

Greg Baum, in the Age, believes Australia Women's efficient defence of their World T20 title was another advertisement of their catching up with the men's game

Afghanistan cricket

More than a sport in Afghanistan

Claire Stewart, in the Sydney Morning Herald, presents a looking glass into cricket in Afghanistan and how it serves a greater purpose than sporting pleasure

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Japanese cricket

Youtube, Shizuka Miyaji's first coach

Carly Adno in Australia's Telegraph explores the origins of Japan's captain and allrounder Shizuka Miyaji

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Women's cricket

Tracking Charlotte Edwards

Oliver Brown in the Telegraph digs into Charlotte Edwards' past after her side reclaimed the Ashes

Women's cricket

Women's cricket on the up

Greater crowds and higher television coverage tally with England captain Charlotte Edwards prediction that women's cricket could attract as many people as the men's game writes Jenny Cornish in the Telegraph

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Women's cricket

Sthalekar reflects on her retirement

Lisa Sthalekar recounts her last season in international and domestic cricket and how she arrived at the decision to retire.