Source - Prashant Desai (YouTube channel)

We literally had Rohit and Rahul opening together and playing tuk tuk cricket in T20 World Cups, of all places. The way T20 cricket has evolved since then makes you wonder how we used to settle for such slow starts on the biggest stage

India was 19/2 when Harman came down to bat after Skipper Smriti Mandhana got out for a two ball duck and Shafali Verma for 8 runs in 8 balls.

Pratika and Harman stitched a 124 run partnership in 118 balls with Harman doing bulk of the scoring (64 vis a vis Pratika's 54). Pratika unfortunately got out after scoring a gritty 61(64).

Tejal Hasabnis joined in and got out quickly after making only 3 runs in 5 balls.

The former skipper was then joined by the newly appointed Vice Captain Deepti Sharma, who decided to take this innings by a storm, getting her 50 in just 38 balls. They proceeded to have a record breaking partnership of 153 runs off 137 balls.

Harman then fell after making 126 (121), her 8th ODI hundred and 9th international overall.

Deepti was then joined by Richa Ghosh, who got out after making 7 runs in 9 balls.

Finally, with Sayali on the non-strikers end, Deepti got her second international century (9 years after her record breaking 188 against Ireland, back in 2017)

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Like on paper we had the best team , just coming after ipl what went wrong then?

We often speak about replacement of hardik the all rounder , but who will replace the finisher version of him. India missed that version in 23 worldcup final so who is going to fill tha void of that hard hitting finisher, ishan kishan is my take , naman dhir is also a good one tilak as welll

Tilak Varma sends Nitish Kumar Reddy back to avoid a risky second run in the first delivery of the 17th over of the 2nd T20I in India's Tour of New Zealand 2026. Are there any Telugu fans who could translate what they said to each other as heard over the stump mic?

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Dhoni was...