After the Commonwealth Games last month, Smriti Mandhana stayed back in the UK for the Hundred and is now part of the bilateral series against hosts England.
Afghanistan's charismatic spinner Rashid Khan and West Indies' Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo headline the latest batch of cricketing stars nominated for the Australia's Big Bash League (BBL) inaugural international draft.
Harmanpreet Kaur will represent Melbourne Renegades for a second season in the Women's Big Bash League.
The PCB had already released the match schedule for the tournament, which begins at the National Stadium here, before the event is being shifted to Lahore from February 9.
The decision was revealed by CA CEO Nick Hockley, who said that they are planning to relocate all eight teams inside a bio-bubble in Melbourne as it will make it easier for the organisers to reschedule the fixtures in the event of postponement of matches due to any further COVID positive cases.
Covid-19 disrupts sports: The new Omicron variant has impacted sports as major sporting leagues like the Ranji Trophy and the Australian domestic league are either being postponed or cancelled.
Maxwell, who is the captain of Melbourne Stars in the BBL, became the 13th player from the franchise to test positive for the virus.
Both the men's and women's domestic game has been hit hard as Cricket Australia (CA) was forced to make many late schedule changes.
Jemimah Rodrigues stole the thunder from her Indian teammate Smriti Mandhana as Melbourne Renegades defeated Sydney Thunder by nine runs in the Women's Big Bash league.
Stylish opener Smriti Mandhana believes the stint at the ongoing Women's Big Bash League will hold the Indian players in good stead when they play for the national team, especially ahead of next year's ODI World Cup.
Chasing 122, Rodrigues and skipper Sophie Molineaux (16 off 16) shared 22 runs for the opening stand before the latter departed.
The 31-year-old, who last played for Australia in 2017, is still angry over how Hurricanes treated him when contract renewal talks came over.
The swashbuckling opener has been a prolific scorer for Thunder over the last two seasons of BBL, scoring 576 and 543 runs respectively.
The 11th season of the BBL will begin with Sydney Sixers taking on Melbourne Stars at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
The eleventh edition of the Big Bash League will begin on December 5.
Sixers now have won the BBL thrice (2011-12, 2019-20, and 2020-21), joint-most with Perth Scorchers (2013-14, 2014-15 and 2016-17)
The match was originally scheduled to be played at Optus Stadium, and hosted by the Perth Scorchers following their defeat in The Qualifier on Saturday night.
Marsh had reacted angrily to an unfavourable umpiring decision in the Scorchers' nine-wicket BBL Qualifier defeat against Sydney Sixers on Saturday night.
The internet was torn with opinions after Andrew Tye bowled a wide delivery, with James Vince needing only two runs to complete his century.
Ben Laughlin took a brilliant catch off Marnus Labuschagne's delivery to dismiss Michael Neser in the BBL eliminator.
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