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NAME MORE STANDS AFTER WOMEN CRICKET GREATS
The Morning Standard
|October 14, 2025
SUNDAY will go down as a red-letter day in women's cricketing history for more reasons than one.
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Alyssa Healy of Australia accomplished the greatest run chase in women's one-day cricket against India at Visakhapatnam. If the ending of the World Cup match was awe-inspiring, its beginning at the YSR Reddy Andhra Cricket Association-VDCA stadium was about grateful remembrance. For only the third time in India, a stadium got stands and gates named after legendary women cricketers a stand after former India captain Mithali Raj and a gate after Andhra Pradesh and India wicketkeeper-batter R Kalpana. Only two other venues in the country have honoured women cricketers in such a manner. In 2017, the Delhi District Cricket Association named two gates at what was then called the Feroz S
This story is from the October 14, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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