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Agarkar: Embarrassing finish for New Zealand

Choosing to bat first and picking three frontline spinners on a slow turner, India overwhelmed New Zealand by 190 runs in the deciding fifth ODI in Visakhapatnam, with Amit Mishra picking up five wickets to send the visitors crashing to 79 all out. With boundaries hard to come by, India set a target of 270 thanks to half-centuries from Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli and the slog-overs enterprise of Kedar Jadhav and Axar Patel. New Zealand didn’t get anywhere near it. Their openers fell early, to seam, before Mishra, Axar Patel and the debutant offspinner Jayant Yadav took over, finishing with combined figures of 14.1-2-35-8 as New Zealand lost their last eight wickets for 16 runs.With New Zealand 28 for 2 after six overs, India held the edge, but they still had Kane Williamson to get past. The New Zealand captain was looking in exquisite touch against the quicks, and had moved to 17 off 21 balls with successive fours against Umesh Yadav in the seventh over of the chase – a drive to cover’s right followed by a back-foot slap to his left.The introduction of spin, however, stalled New Zealand. Between them, Axar and Mishra bowled five out of seven overs as Williamson and Ross Taylor only scored 25 runs from the from the eighth to the 14th overs. Trying to break free of the strangulation, Williamson chipped Axar straight to long-off. Then Mishra brought all his skill and guile into play, picking up his five wickets in the space of 19 legal balls: there was extra bounce to get Taylor caught behind, deception to bowl BJ Watling with a googly, drift and sharp turn to bowl the left-handed James Neesham through the gate, and flight and dip to have Tim Southee stumped.In the end, New Zealand only lasted 23.1 overs; it was their shortest-ever innings while being bowled out in an ODI. The result demonstrated the gulf between the two sides’ spin attacks in helpful conditions – Mitchell Santner played the Axar role well enough, conceding only 36 in his ten overs while dismissing MS Dhoni, but Ish Sodhi was expensive, giving away 66 in helpful conditions, which came about through a combination of frequent loose balls and India targeting him consciously. By leaving out their third spinner Anton Devcich and picking an extra seam-bowling allrounder in Corey Anderson, New Zealand showed they may not have read the conditions as well as India did.Still, India never really got on top of New Zealand during their innings, with partnerships ending just as they threatened to swell menacingly. Rohit fell after putting on 79 with Kohli at over a run a ball, and MS Dhoni was just beginning to get into gear when he was dismissed. The game could have gone either way when Kohli fell to leave India 220 for 5 in the 44th over, but Jadhav and Axar added 46 in 39 balls to give India what turned out to be a more than adequate total.The first ball of India’s innings gave them enough clue of the conditions they would have to contend with. Ajinkya Rahane looked to punch Tim Southee through the covers, off the back foot, but the ball didn’t come on, and he ended up jamming it down by his feet, off the inside edge. Though both Southee and Boult offered Rahane width to execute that shot more easily and pick up two fours in the first two overs, India’s initial going was slow. New Zealand quickly cottoned on to the lack of pace off the pitch and got rid of their slips, moving them to short extra-cover and short midwicket. It helped dry up the singles, and also brought them a wicket when Rahane, on 20 off 38, flicked James Neesham in the air. At the 10-over mark, India were 45 for 1.Rohit, who had only faced 19 balls in the first ten overs, gave India’s run rate a boost with some audacious shots, including a flat-bat hit over mid-off off a shortish slower ball from Neesham and a big six down the ground off Ish Sodhi when he had both long-on and long-off back. A dive to complete a quick single in the 17th over left him hobbling and in need of attention from India’s physio. When he resumed batting, he had trouble between wickets, but continued to find the boundaries, cutting Sodhi for four to bring up his fifty and launching him for a slog-swept six, both in the 18th over.New Zealand brought back Trent Boult, and the extra pace dismissed Rohit, when he miscued successive pulls in the 22nd over; the first fell safely to the left of deep midwicket, the second carried straight to the fielder.With Dhoni new to the crease, Kane Williamson quickly brought on spin from both ends, and India’s run rate dipped again. Having only scored 8 off his first 24 balls, Dhoni changed gears by sweeping Mitchell Santner for four, and then hit Sodhi back over his head for a four and a six in successive overs. Kohli joined in too, stepping out to hit Sodhi for a massive straight six, and India, once again, were back on track.Having only scored 20 off the first 40 balls of their partnership, Kohli and Dhoni had added 51 off the next 52 balls, and Kohli had just reached his half-century, when Dhoni was lbw trying to sweep Santner. Manish Pandey, new at the crease, took on deep midwicket in the next over and holed out off Sodhi, and India were beginning to lose a bit of momentum. Then Kohli, looking to up the pace, picked out long-off at the start of the 44th over.New Zealand may have sensed a chance to dent India further, but Jadhav and Axar prevented that. There weren’t too many boundaries available, with five fielders on the rope and the seamers changing their pace cleverly, but the two batsmen kept the dot balls to a minimum – only playing out eight in a partnership lasting 39 balls. Both also hit a six each, Axar clearing his front leg and launching Southee back over his head, and Jadhav skipping down the pitch to flat-bat Boult over long-on.

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Agarkar: If Ashwin stays fit, can’t see India in much trouble this home season

India completed a 3-0 whitewash in devastating fashion as a seven-wicket haul from R Ashwin shot New Zealand out for 153 in their last innings of the series. India declared just under an hour from tea, after Cheteshwar Pujara had completed his eighth Test hundred, to set New Zealand a target of 475 and give themselves a day and a half to take 10 wickets. They only needed 44.5 overs, as New Zealand lost nine wickets for 115 runs in the post-tea session.Ashwin’s figures of 7 for 59 were his best in Test cricket, as were his match figures of 13 for 140. He picked up his 21st five-wicket haul, his sixth ten-wicket match haul, his seventh Player of the Match award and seventh Player of the Series award – fourth in a row – as well. There probably isn’t a more influential cricketer anywhere in the world today. Certainly no one has played a bigger part in India securing the No. 1 Test ranking, a feat they got to celebrate when Virat Kohli was handed the ICC Test championship mace at the end of the match, in front of a capacity crowd in Indore.Set a similar task last year in another dead-rubber Test, on a similar slow turner at Feroz Shah Kotla, South Africa chose to block their way to a draw. They didn’t succeed, but they did make India toil for 143.1 overs. New Zealand, having until now given India a harder time on this tour than South Africa did in theirs, adopted an entirely different approach and collapsed spectacularly.Their two most accomplished batsmen, Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor, exemplified this approach. Both came out looking to attack Ashwin, their tormentor through the series, and ended up playing a part in their own undoing.Williamson hit Ashwin for three fours in his first two overs, either side of tea, but in that time also gave the bowler enough of a clue that he was looking to step across his stumps and play him with the turn as much as possible. He shuffled across again to the eleventh ball he faced from Ashwin, premeditatedly, and a flatter, quicker one turned in and trapped him in front. Like he had done to Kumar Sangakkara on the 2015 tour of Sri Lanka, Ashwin had dismissed Williamson four times in four innings.In his first over at the crease, Taylor jumped out and hit Ashwin over the top for a four and a six off successive balls. As Ashwin’s spell continued, he stepped out again to whip him over midwicket, and then drove him against the turn through the covers. Having gone to 32 off 24, though, he chanced a sweep off a ball that was too full for the shot. It sneaked under his bat and bowled him.Luke Ronchi, James Neesham and Martin Guptill all fell in the next seven overs, the latter two to Ravindra Jadeja, and it seemed almost certain that the match wouldn’t go into a fifth day. BJ Watling and Mitchell Santner hinted that it just might, while putting on 24 for the seventh wicket, but Ashwin came back to break their partnership, bowling over the wicket to the left-handed Santner and beating him with natural variation. Coming forward to defend, Santner inside-edged the ball into his pad and then onto the stumps.India didn’t have to wait too long for the eighth and ninth wickets, but Watling and Trent Boult briefly raised the possibility of their having to come back on Wednesday to take the tenth, by putting on the longest partnership of the innings. They stuck around for 10.1 overs, causing India a bit of frustration – Jadeja bowled a 45kph donkey drop to Boult, Ashwin dragged down a legbreak to Watling – and threatening to take the fourth day into an extra half-hour, before Boult came down the track to drive Ashwin and popped back a waist-high return catch.Cheteshwar Pujara finished with a century and three fifties in the series•BCCI

India declared halfway through the morning session, one ball after Pujara brought up his hundred by helping a short ball from James Neesham to the fine leg boundary. It was a fitting way to reach the landmark, given that the area behind the wicket had fetched him 57 of his runs and six of his nine fours, with the lap-sweep and late cut his go-to shots against the spinners. Having gone to lunch batting on 50 off 98 balls, he had sped away to score 51 off 50 in the second session. At the other end, Ajinkya Rahane helped an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 58 hurry along at 6.44 an over, stepping out to play his favourite chips down the ground and inside-out drives.Ahead by 276 overnight, India had only extended their lead by eight runs when M Vijay was run-out by a brilliant piece of fielding from Guptill in the eighth over of the morning. In walked Gautam Gambhir, who had retired hurt late on the third evening with a shoulder injury. His re-entry sparked an immediate upsurge in India’s run rate, as he took frequent singles against New Zealand’s one-day fields, and pounced on anything remotely loose, his standout shot a drive drilled past extra-cover off Boult.Gambhir’s urgency rubbed off on Pujara as well. He ran as fast as his troubled knees would take him, ending up with a dirt-streaked shirt from all the times he had to dive into the crease, and looked outside his usual repertoire of shots, even jumping out of his crease at one point to flat-bat Boult back over his head.The pair added 76 for the second wicket before Gambhir fell for 50 off 56 balls, chipping Jeetan Patel to short extra-cover. Kohli, the first-innings double-centurion, fell in the sixth over after lunch, given lbw looking to sweep Patel although replays suggested the ball may have struck his pad outside the line of off stump.With nine overs to bat out before tea, New Zealand lost one wicket, Umesh Yadav going around the wicket in his first over and attacking the stumps to get Tom Latham lbw playing around his front pad. New Zealand were 38 for 1 at tea. They probably wouldn’t have imagined that it would all be over after just one more session.

After Bangladesh’s tight win over Afghanistan in the first ODI, Shakib Al Hasan said that the team now have the belief that they can win ODIs even when circumstances are not always in their favour. At the same time, he added that the side must improve its body language and fielding for a better performance in the rest of the three-match series.”I think the turning points were when I conceded one run [in the 47th over] and, before that, the breakthrough I made [in the 41st over] when they were getting a big stand,” Shakib said. “Actually our job is not to think; our job is to do it. We have to keep believing that we can win this game, and that belief was there. Because we were playing after almost a year, it was difficult for a while. It was in the body language. Our fielding wasn’t that good. This will get better soon.”The most important practice is to stay in the game and to play the game. No matter how much you run or practice, match fitness is something else altogether. When you keep playing matches, things become a lot easier. No matter what situation you try to create at practice, it won’t reach that level.”Mahmudullah, who scored 62 and added a brisk 40 with Shakib for the fourth wicket, said that Bangladesh ought to have beaten lower-ranked Afghanistan far more convincingly than they did. However, he noted that the side is gradually starting to win more close games.”I think that in such a situation, we should definitely win the game. With all due respect to Afghanistan, we should have won the game a lot earlier considering the difference in our rankings. We have lost a lot of close matches due to small errors. I think that is slowly starting to change.”Mahmudullah also rued his own untimely dismissal, perishing to a miscued slog sweep off Mohammad Nabi; he had wanted to bat till the last three overs before cutting loose.”I wasn’t thinking about the century. I was just trying to take advantage of the wicket, as the ball was coming on to the bat nicely in the last Powerplay. I wanted to stay till the 48th over and then go for the big shots but I picked out the one extra fielder they had outside the circle. I should have carried on a little while longer.”Bangladesh’s defence of 265 was made trickier by the rusty form of their returning quicks, Taskin Ahmed and Rubel Hossain. Taskin was returning to international cricket for the first time since his suspension for an illegal action in March. Rubel was playing his first ODI since July 2015. Both bowlers were expensive in their initial spells, before improving thereafter. Shakib said that it was a struggle for them to play after a long break, but praised the way they pulled it back towards the end.”Rubel returned from injury and Taskin returned from suspension, so it was difficult for both,” he said. “At the start they didn’t do well but in the last three overs, they were solid.”

ScorecardHaseeb Hameed batted Lancashire to safety•Getty Images

Hampshire’s Liam Dawson bagged three evening wickets but could not stop Lancashire, led by a fifty from Haseeb Hameed, from batting out for a draw at the Ageas Bowl.Left arm spinner Dawson gave Hampshire hope of the win but Hameed and Liam Livingstone saw the visitors to the end.Hampshire remain cemented to the bottom of Division One, while Lancashire are in danger of being dragged in to a relegation dogfight with Surrey threatening to overtake them.Hampshire were given some early hope of clutching a victory from the off, as leg spinner Mason Crane found exaggerated turn.He took three of the six final Lancastrian first innings wickets with another tireless day twirling – bowling 48 and a half overs in the match.Will Smith, Hampshire’s captain, said: “In terms of the effort and desire to win was all we could ask. We probably created enough chances but that said you can’t fault the effort, we have fielded for 210 overs in a row.”Daws and Mason bowled 100 overs of them and bowled particularly well. We couldn’t force the win but there are a lot of positives.”At times the pitch appeared docile but all of a sudden it would come to life. It was a wicket which suited us.”Every game is important now. We have to approach the next five with a winning mentality. If we can come out with two wins we can climb the table.”Crane had night-watchman Simon Kerrigan caught behind to the last ball of the days’ first over and later found a thick edge from Jordan Clark drop to Ryan McLaren at second slip.In the afternoon he wrapped up the first innings by tempting Croft out his crease, stumped by the increasingly impressive Lewis McManus.Ryan McLaren sent Liam Livingstone’s off stump cartwheeling before Crane’s spin twin Dawson grabbed tail scalps of Tom Moores and Kyle Jarvis.With Lancashire 12 short of the follow on, Will Smith forced them to bat again and were left frustrated by openers Steven Croft and Hameed.The pair retreated deeply within their shells – dot ball followed dot ball, as they used up 25 of the 58 remaining overs.Dawson managed to get one top pop up with the first ball after tea, and Croft watched sullenly as it dropped into Gareth Andrew’s paws at silly point – Dawson’s 100th Specsavers County Championship wicket.Dawson managed to grab his fifth and sixth wickets of the afternoon – after only managing nine previously this season – soon after, as Lancashire threatened briefly to offer Hampshire a glimpse of winning the game.Luke Procter pushed to Tom Alsop at silly mid-on, before Alviro Petersen fell in an identical fashion six overs later.The stat that summed up the match, on a flat track, was the number of maidens bowled – over a full days’ worth of 98.But Hameed, unbeaten on 53 after his 142-ball half century, his second of the match, and Livingstone dropped anchor to avoid defeat – the captains eventually shaking hands with six left, the visitors still trailing by 63.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsFile photo: Mohammad Shahzad, who top scored for Afghanistan, hit eight fours and a six in his 79-ball 66•Peter Della Penna/ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Half-centuries from Mohammad Shahzad and Najibullah Zadran set the base for Afghanistan’s 39-run win in the second ODI against Ireland in Belfast on Tuesday.Afghanistan, who were bowled out for 250 after being sent in to bat, overcame Ireland’s solid start to the chase – openers William Porterfield and Ed Joyce added 71 – to spin the hosts out. Rashid Khan, the legspinner, finished with 3 for 28, while offspinner Mohammad Nabi claimed 3 for 45 as Ireland were bowled out for 211 in 48.2 overs. That meant Afghanistan took a 1-0 lead in the five-match series which started with a washout.As many as seven Afghanistan batsmen got into double digits but most could not kick on. Shahzad, the opener, top scored with 66. The visitors, who were cruising at 76 without loss, slipped to 125 for 4, before being rescued by 70-run stand between Najibullah Zadran and Samiullah Shenwari. Zadran smashed six fours and two sixes in his 61-ball knock, before Barry McCarthy, the medium pacer, polished off the tail to finish with 4 for 59 – his best figures so far in his fledgling ODI career. Kevin O’Brien also chipped in with four wickets.Ireland were on course as Joyce brought up a half-century. Then, medium pacer Mirwais Ashraf’s two wickets in the space of four deliveries in the 27th over stalled the chase. O’Brien kept Ireland in the game with a 27-ball 35, but the escalating asking rate meant escalated pressure too, which the hosts could not withstand. O’Brien was fifth man out, before Ireland’s last five wickets fell for 22.The third ODI will also be played at the same venue on Thursday.

ScorecardJoe Leach took to an emergency pinch-hitting role with devastating effect•Getty Images

Yorkshire Vikings opened their Royal London One-Day Cup programme with a severe thrashing at the hands of Worcestershire Rapids at Headingley.Batting first after winning the toss, Yorkshire were bowled out for a listless 170 and Worcestershire charged to their target for the loss of three wickets with 24.3 overs remaining after openers Joe Leach and Tom Kohler-Cadmore hasd blasted 107 together off a mere 12.4 overs.Yorkshire’s director of cricket, Martyn Moxon, said: “We have just got to bat better, that is the bottom line. Our batsmen have not got that confidence at the moment. They are hoping rather than expecting and are not in their best form. There is a bit of fear of getting out as opposed to scoring runs.Moxon also confirmed that Jack Brooks could be out for up to a month. He sustained a leg injury while bowling in the T20 Roses match at Old Trafford.It was a doubly satisfying result for Royals’ Bradford-born director of cricket, Steve Rhodes, whose 23-year-old son, George, made his first team debut for the county and pegged Yorkshire back with ten overs of well-controlled off-spin that brought him two wickets.George’s grandfather, Billy, was a wicketkeeper-batsman with Nottinghamshire from 1961-64 which meant that George and his team-mate, Brett D’Oliveira, were each the third generation of county cricketers.Concerned about a nearby storm, Worcestershire sent in Leach to partner Kohler-Cadmore and, although it never materialised, there was no shortage of thunderous strokes on the field.Kohler-Cadmore took three boundaries in David Willey’s first over but Leach was immediately more severe on Tim Bresnan, following up a towering six with four consecutive boundaries.The 50 was reached in 4.5 overs and when Steve Patterson joined the attack Leach picked him up for six over square leg and cover drove his next ball for four.Leach dashed to his half-century from 25 balls with seven fours and three sixes, bringing up his 50 by driving Liam Plunkett over the rope at long on, but the carnage was halted when Kohler-Cadmore was lbw to Plunkett for a run-a-ball 42 with seven fours and a six.In the next over from Rashid, Leach was caught at long off for 63 from 35 deliveries with eight fours and three sixes and Daryl Mitchell and Joe Clarke added a further 37 before gave Rashid a return catch, Mitchell and Alexei Kervezee finishing the job for their side.Yorkshire had never got to grips with a pitch on which the ball tended to stick and although seven of their batsmen made it into the teens none of them managed to move beyond the 30 mark.Several got out to hesitant shots and Yorkshire remained pegged back in the middle overs by the accurate spin of Rhodes and D’Oliveira.Jack Shantry, bowled a mean opening spell of seven overs for ten runs and the wicket of Adam Lyth and he returned to end the innings with his second ball by getting Bresnan caught at short fine leg.Jack Leaning helped Alex Lees bring up the 50 in the 17th over but Yorkshire were unable to capitalise on their slow but solid start, Leaning then edging Ed Barnard to Ben Cox and Lees being trapped lbw to become Rhodes’ first scalp for his county.Worcestershire never relaxed their stranglehold and just when Gary Ballance was threatening to break loose he was lbw sweeping at D’Oliveira for 30 from 32 balls with three fours.D’Oliveira also accounted for Rashid who miscued to short extra cover and in the following over it became 109 for 6 when Will Rhodes drove his namesake to Daryl Mitchell who was stood almost next to the bowler at mid-off.Yorkshire’s situation would have been more critical had Mitchell not dropped Bresnan at short cover when he had made only a single and Bresnan and David Willey briefly cheered up the crowd with a six apiece off D’Oliveira and Mitchell respectively.A couple of balls after his big hit, however, Willey chipped back a catch to Mitchell and shortly afterwards Plunkett dragged Leach into his stumps, the last three wickets toppling for four runs.

England Women’s squad for first two ODIs

Heather Knight (capt), Anya Shrubsole (vice-capt), Tammy Beaumont, Katherine Brunt, Kate Cross, Georgia Elwiss, Jenny Gunn, Alexandra Hartley, Danielle Hazell, Amy Jones (wk), Laura Marsh, Natalie Sciver, Fran Wilson, Lauren Winfield, Danielle Wyatt

Alex Hartley, the uncapped left-arm spinner, and Fran Wilson, who last played an international match in 2011, earned call-ups to the England Women’s squad of 15 for the first two one-dayers against Pakistan Women, following strong performances for England Women’s Academy in Sri Lanka earlier this year.Amy Jones has been designated to take over the wicketkeeping duties from Sarah Taylor, while Lauren Winfield, has been named as a back-up option. Taylor is currently on an indefinite break from the game to recover from stress and anxiety issues that have riddled her for the last four years.June 20 will also officially mark a change of guard in England women’s cricket as Heather Knight, the allrounder, will lead the side for the first time following Charlotte Edwards’ retirement in May. Knight will have in her ranks a top-quality pace attack led by Anya Shrubsole, the newly-appointed vice-captain, and Katherine Brunt, who is one short of 100 ODI wickets. Beth Langston, the seamer, has been ruled out of selection because of an ankle injury.”Monday is going to be a very proud day for our new captain and vice-captain, Heather Knight and Anya Shrubsole,” Mark Robinson, the head coach, said. “Under their leadership we will start a new chapter for the England Women’s team against a Pakistan side that cannot be underestimated. Pakistan showed everyone during the ICC World T20 how dangerous they can be, when they beat the hosts India on their own patch. They represent a fresh challenge that as a squad we can’t wait to get out there and tackle.”All three ODIs of the series will count towards the ICC Women’s Championship that will determine the top four direct qualifiers for the 2017 Women’s World Cup to be held in England next year. England and Pakistan are currently placed sixth and seventh respectively. However, England have an incentive of moving to No. 3 if they win the series, while Pakistan can jump two spots should they win all three matches.”Historically, we have a strong record against Pakistan, but the quality of international women’s cricket is rising all the time, so we are looking forward to the challenge of facing them on home soil over the next few weeks,” Robinson said. “We have a bit of catching up to do in the ICC Women’s Championship, so we will need to play some strong, positive cricket to secure maximum points in the three ODIs in order to move into the top four of that table.”England’s schedule following the series against Pakistan includes assignments against West Indies and Sri Lanka.

James Anderson credited a change of ends for improving his modest record at Headingley. He came into this match averaging 41.36 from seven Tests at the ground. He had never taken more than three wickets in an innings.But, after a conversation with Stuart Broad, the pair decided to change the ends from which they normally bowl and soon reaped the rewards. With Anderson bowling from the Football Stand End, the pair took 9 for 37 between them as Sri Lanka were bowled out for just 91. Anderson claimed the 19th five-wicket haul of his career and went past Kapil Dev into sixth-place in the all-time leading Test wicket takers.”We’ve hated the place for nine years,” Anderson said, “so we thought we might as well change ends. We’ve had very little success here. Our records are pretty poor. Why not give it a go?”It’s taken us nine years to work out that we’ve been bowling at the wrong ends. That’s a bit frustrating, but I’m delighted that we’ve eventually sorted it out and got some rewards.”The pitch is very different to a normal Headingley pitch. There’s a bit more in it for the bowlers. When it’s swinging like that, I find it my ideal conditions. I found it a lot of fun. We had a really good day.”Anderson also admitted that concerns over the weather forecast for the remainder of the game were crucial factor in the decision to follow-on.”In an ideal world we would have batted again,” Anderson said. “But with the weather forecast a bit iffy for the next couple of days, we thought we needed to put them in again. Alastair Cook said he didn’t want to be sitting in the dressing room for the next couple of days when we’re batting. We all bought into it.”

The upcoming Women’s ODI World Cup will have a prize pool of USD 13.88 million. This marks almost a fourfold rise from the previous ODI World Cup, held in New Zealand in 2022, which had an overall pool of USD 3.5 million, and also marks a significant increase from the USD 10 million pool for the Men’s ODI World Cup in India two years ago.This World Cup, the 13th edition, will have the highest prize money for the winners of a women’s global tournament: USD 4.48 million, a 239 percent increase from the USD 1.32 million awarded to Australia in 2022. The runners-up will receive USD 2.24 million – an increase of 273 percent in comparison to the USD 600,000 England won three years ago. The losing semi-finalists will receive USD 1.12 million each – up from USD 300,000 in 2022 – while the group-stage participants are guaranteed to earn USD 250,000.For each group-stage win, teams will earn a further USD 34,314. At the end of the group stage, the teams that finish fifth and sixth will be awarded USD 700,000 each, while those who finish seventh and eighth will earn USD 280,000.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

“Our message is simple, women cricketers must know they will be treated on par with men if they choose this sport professionally,” Jay Shah, the ICC chair, said in a statement. “The uplift [in prize money] underscores our ambition to deliver a world-class ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup and to inspire the next generation of players and fans. Women’s cricket is on a remarkable upward trajectory, and with this step we are confident the momentum will accelerate.”This edition of the World Cup will take place in India and Sri Lanka from September 30. Though the opening match of the tournament, between India and Sri Lanka, is less than a month away, tickets are yet to go on sale. However, the ICC has said that tickets are expected to go on sale online this week.The tickets for the 2022 World Cup were available six months ahead of the tournament.