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Powerplay podcast: World Cup qualifiers 'a different kind of pressure', says Orla Prendergast

Allrounder speaks ahead of Ireland's World Cup qualifying campaign

09-Apr-2025•ESPNcricinfo staff

Six teams, two World Cup spots on offer, many intrigues

Bangladesh and West Indies are the favourites, but if Pakistan raise their game at home, the calculations could change

08-Apr-2025•Firdose Moonda

Stats - Mandhana smashes fastest ODI century for India on record-breaking day

Mandhana and Rawal break records with their 233-run opening-wicket stand as India top 400 for the first time in ODIs, on their way to their biggest win

15-Jan-2025•Sampath Bandarupalli

Stats - India break partnership records, post their highest-ever ODI total

All the stats highlights from India's second ODI against Ireland, where they posted 370 for 5

12-Jan-2025•Sampath Bandarupalli

Mandhana-led India look to test out combinations ahead of World Cup

With no Renuka and Harmanpreet, India will be fielding an inexperienced side against Ireland, who have never won an ODI against them

09-Jan-2025•Sruthi Ravindranath

Jasprit Bumrah, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Laura Wolvaardt and Nicholas Pooran make it to our teams of the year

Our staff pick their men's and women's teams from among those who excelled through the year

30-Dec-2024•Yash Jha

England's repositioning, New Zealand's rollercoaster, Pakistan's shambles

In our first batch of team report cards for 2024: Sri Lanka, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, Ireland, the Associates

28-Dec-2024

Powerplay podcast: Australia march on but who is dancing behind?

Valkerie and Firdose hear from Stafanie Taylor and Omaima Sohail about the race to qualify for the knockouts

08-Oct-2024•ESPNcricinfo staff

Powerplay podcast: First impressions from the Women's T20 World Cup

Our reporters get together in Dubai to discuss all the happenings from the first round of games, plus, conversations with Mlaba and Wyatt-Hodge

06-Oct-2024•ESPNcricinfo staff

Women's cricket is the ideal playground for swing

Because of the slower pace of the game, big, banana swing is far more common in the women's game, almost defining its entire vocabulary

03-Oct-2024•Sidharth Monga

Ed Joyce: 'You cannot go into any game thinking we have to win. I'm just looking for performances'

Under their long-time head coach, Ireland women have been more successful than at any time in their history, but he'd rather the side focus on the process than the results

06-Sep-2024•Nathan Johns

Switch Hit podcast: Women's cricket - it's a brave new world

Valkerie Baynes and Firdose Moonda on the Dane van Niekerk situation and the future of the women's game

26-Apr-2023•ESPNcricinfo staff

England keep their game-faces straight despite distractions of WPL auction

Six England players pick up deals while sealing the deal against Ireland in Paarl

13-Feb-2023•Valkerie Baynes

WPL player auction - who could be the big buys, and all other questions answered

What do the auction pools look like, what is the sort of money being spent, and much more

11-Feb-2023•S Sudarshanan

Mary Waldron always wanted to play a World Cup, but she didn't think it would be in cricket

The Ireland keeper and umpire talks about how she came to cricket after nearly making it in football

11-Feb-2023•S Sudarshanan

An indicator of the lay of the land and a boost for South Africa, the country

This World Cup brings global sporting action back to South Africa, that too with a women's tournament

09-Feb-2023•Firdose Moonda

Is this India's time? England will have something to say about that

Group B team-by-team guide on England, India, Pakistan, West Indies and Ireland

07-Feb-2023•ESPNcricinfo staff

An unlikely hat-tricker, a keeper-commentator... it's the simple things that stand out

Bangladesh look set to be the story of the tournament, and the no-fuss response to the non-striker run-out was perfect

18-Jan-2023•Raunak Kapoor

Australia women conquer all, Ireland punch above their weight, Pakistan stumble at the finish

In our second batch of report cards for 2022: Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, South Africa, Ireland, Netherlands and more

03-Jan-2023

England step on the gas, India stutter at the crunch, Bangladesh take a step up

Our first batch of team report cards for 2022 also includes Ireland, Afghanistan, West Indies and Zimbabwe

31-Dec-2022

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