T20 World Cup | Final: Kane Williamson leads New Zealand from the front with crucial fifty

WBBL 2021 | Smriti Mandhana shine in Thunder’s derby win

India Women’s player and one of the finest batters in the women’s game, Smriti Mandhana hit a comprehensive 45 in Sydney Thunder Women’s chase of 95 against cross-town rivals Sixers Women. This was the second Sydney Derby of the Women’s Big Bash League 2021 with the first one being abandoned due to rain. Firstly the Thunder bowlers reduced the Ellyse Perry-led side to only 94-6 even as Perry herself remained unbeaten on 40. Isabelle Wong and Hannah Darlington took two wickets each for the Thunder side. In the chase, Mandhana played anchor and scored 39-ball 45 to guide her team to only their third victory this season which made them move up from the bottom of the table to seventh place. For Sixers, it was their seventh loss of the season and they are placed at the sixth position, only one point ahead of the Thunder. In another game, Adelaide Strikers Women beat Brisbane Heat Women by eight wickets to stop their three-match winning run and continue their winning streak which has been stretched up to four at the moment. Courtesy of Amanda-Jade Wellington and co.’s bowling effort, Strikers reduced Heat to only 94-7 in their 20 overs and then, even after losing their foreign imports Dane van Niekerk and Laura Wolvaardt early, Katie Mack and Tahlia McGrath finished the game with their unbeaten 88 run partnership. Mack with her fifty was the top scorer.

T20 World Cup | Final: New Zealand off to a cautious start against Australia

New Zealand were off to a cautious start in the power play overs against Australia in the T20 World Cup final on Sunday in Dubai. After being put into bat by Australian skipper Aaron Finch who won the toss, the Blackcaps could only manage to score 32/1 in the first six overs. Openers Daryl Mitchell and Martin Guptill did gather some quick runs in the very first over but they didn’t really capitalise on the start and the scoring rate dipped. Mitchell was eventually undone by Josh Hazlewood in the fourth over after wicket-keeper Matthew Wade took a good catch to dismiss the batsman for an 8-ball 11 which included a maximum off Glenn Maxwell. Guptill was unbeaten at 17 off 20 while Williamson was at 3* off 8 after the conclusion of the powerplay. Both Australia and New Zealand are in search of their first T20I title.

PAK 'W' vs WI 'W' | 3rd ODI: West Indies complete clean sweep win

The West Indies women’s cricket team completed a clean sweep win in the three-match ODI series against Pakistan in Karachi on Sunday, 14 November. Chasing 226, the Caribbean team rode on an unbeaten century from Stafanie Taylor, a 58-ball 49 from Hayley Matthews and 51* from Chedean Nation to go over the line by 6 wickets and in 44 overs. The West Indies side lost three early wickets and were reduced to 15/3 when Taylor and Mathews joined hands and steadied the ship for the team with a 83-run stand for the fourth wicket. But the partnership was eventually broken after Mathews departed for 49 off 58. Taylor was then joined by Nation in the middle and the two batters made sure that there were no further fall of wickets as they put 128 runs for the fifth wicket and anchored the side to a win. While Taylor completed a hundred, Nation notched up a half-century. Earlier in the day, the hosts got a good start to the proceedings as they put 123/2 on the score sheet but Muneeba Ali’s wicket broke the shackles and the home side lost wickets at regular intervals. Ali scored 58 off 88. While Pakistan lost wickets regularly, it was Aliya Riaz who showed some resistance and struck 44* off 57 to help the side put 225/7 in 50 overs. Selman and Aaliyah Alleyne picked up a couple of wickets for West Indies. Pakistan had already lost the first two ODIs of the series.

T20 World Cup | Watch: Earthquake tremors felt in Dubai ahead of the Final

Many videos surfaced on the internet as an earthquake of the magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale shook areas in and around Dubai, the venue for the final of the T20 World Cup 2021. The UAE’s Meteorological Center confirmed that these were the aftershocks from a magnitude 6.5 earthquake in southern Iran and were felt across several emirates. "A 6.2 Magnitude Earthquake on Richter scale is recorded in South of Iran at 16:07, 14/11/2021 "UAE time” According to the NCM “National Seismic Network," the UAE's National Center for Meteorology tweeted. Even residents in Abu Dhabi and Ras al-Khaimah said that the buildings and homes shook following the earthquake in Iran. Although it was reported very early in the day and hence there seems to be no effect in the World Cup final which will be played between New Zealand and Australia.