The Latest Breaking News from Meg Lanning

Meg Lanning is taking a break for personal reasons, deciding she wants to "take a step back" from the game with no time line set for her return.

SYDNEY: World Cup-winning captain Meg Lanning is unlikely to lead Australia in the tour of India later this year as the skipper is taking an indefinite break from the game to "focus on myself."

The 30-year-old had been due to represent Trent Rockets in The Hundred

Successful Australian cricket captain Meg Lanning is taking a break from the game for personal reasons, with no timeline set for her return.

Australia’s all-conquering women cricket team continued their dominance of the sport after edging out India in the Commonwealth Games final

Meg Lanning’s side claimed a tense nine-run win over India.

BIRMINGHAM: The Indian women's cricket team once again succumbed to the big stage fright to suffer a nine-run defeat against the mighty Australia in the gold medal match of the Commonwealth Games here on Sunday.

The depth of Australia's batting line-up is fuelling a freedom which the side hopes can deliver women's T20 gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Tahlia McGrath and Beth Mooney produced an unbroken 141-run stand to steer Australia to a dominant 44-run women's T20 win over Pakistan in Birmingham.

DUBAI: On the back of her unbeaten half-century against Pakistan in the Commonwealth Games, star India opener Smriti Mandhana has moved a rung up to a career-best third position in the ICC T20I rankings for batters.

In the end, having let go of a golden opportunity to beat mighty Australia, the Indian women’s team was left heartbroken. For a while, fired by a sensational opening spell by seamer Renuka Singh Thakur, who took a T20I career-best 4/18, India seemed to be on top of the Southern…