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Under his captaincy, India remained unbeaten in Tests in 2017, winning four successive series against Bangladesh( a one-off Test), Australia( 2-1), and the away and home series wins against Sri Lanka-- 3-0 and 1-0 respectively.
In ODIs, India enjoyed a flawless run, registering five successive series wins-- England 2-1; the West Indies 3-1; Sri Lanka 5-0; Australia 4-1; New Zealand 2-1.
5- Mithali Raj and Women’ s cricket team:
The India women’ s cricket team had long been denied the coverage and following that their male counterparts get, a situation not very different from the case in other parts of the world, and indeed sports in general. The World Cup that took place earlier this year, however, changed all that in a span of a month.
India, led by the dynamic Mithali and packed with established names such as Jhulan Goswami, Harmanpreet Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy among others, were fancied as a side that could make it to the last four at the outset of the tournament. From beating hosts England on the back of a top-order run-fest, the Indians embarked on a journey in which they won hearts along the way with their performances.
Perhaps the defining moment of the tournament was when Harmanpreet launched an all-out assault in the semifinal against Australia, decimating the defending champions’ bowling attack to remain unbeaten on 171 from 115 balls, registering one of the finest knocks in the tournament’ s history.
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