Two hundreds and a record stand gave India women the series against Zimbabwe with a game to spare. In Lahore, Shadab Khan batted Pakistan home from nine down. Also today: India A's second-innings fightback in Lincoln, the third round of the Ranji Trophy, and James Anderson's exit from Lancashire.
1. Harmanpreet 126, Deepti 106*: India women win by 121
India made 328/6 at Kotambi, Vadodara, and bowled Zimbabwe out for 207 in 48.5 overs to lead the three-match series 2–0. From 19/2, Pratika Rawal (61) and Harmanpreet Kaur added 124. Harmanpreet then made 126 off 121 balls and Deepti Sharma, batting at No. 6, reached 106* off 86. Their 153 for the fifth wicket is India's highest ODI stand for the fifth wicket or lower. In the 130 India women's ODI scorecards Crickrida holds (2008–2026), the next best is 122, done twice. Deepti also took 3/32, and left-arm spinner Vaishnavi Sharma took 4/39 for her first ODI wickets. Scorecard: India v Zimbabwe, 2nd ODI. The third ODI is on Wednesday at 2 PM IST.
2. Career context: Harmanpreet's eighth, Deepti's second
In our 30 September snapshot Harmanpreet had 7 ODI hundreds and 4,541 runs at 37.22. This was her eighth. Deepti had one ODI hundred, her 188 against Ireland in 2017, so this was her second, more than nine years later. She also had 166 ODI wickets at 27.69. See women's ODI most centuries, highest partnerships and Mandhana v Harmanpreet.
3. Shadab's 113* takes Pakistan home by one wicket
England were 19/3 in the Lahore tri-series game before Ben Duckett's 105, his fifth ODI hundred, took them to 241. Shaheen Shah Afridi took 4/46. Pakistan slid to 154/9, then Shadab Khan (113* off 96) and No. 11 Haris Rauf (7*) added an unbroken 89 to win with 17 balls to spare. Before this, Shadab's ODI best was 86 in 73 matches. Pakistan have won all three of their tri-series games; England have lost all three. Full scorecard.
4. India A trail by 98 in Lincoln; Padikkal unbeaten
New Zealand A made 317 in reply to India A's 113. Anshul Kamboj took 3/52. India A were 10/2 in their second innings after Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul failed again. Then Devdutt Padikkal (56*) and Sai Sudharsan took them to 106/2 at stumps on day two, 98 behind. Both are pressing for places in the coming Test series against New Zealand. Day three is today.
5. Ranji Trophy round three starts today
All four Elite groups and the Plate group start their third round today. The main games are Tamil Nadu v Railways in Chennai, Mumbai v Haryana in Mumbai, Jharkhand v Delhi in Ranchi and Kerala v Bengal.
Also
Lancashire will not renew James Anderson's contract. That ends his long career with the county. He has 704 Test wickets, the most by a fast bowler and third overall behind Muralitharan and Warne (men's Test most wickets). New Zealand are rotating their quicks for the rest of the T20I series against India. The third T20I is in Wellington on Tuesday.
Read the previous note
Yesterday's note: Tilak's fifty puts India 2-0 up in NZ; Santner's four-for. The first women's ODI is here: India's nine-wicket win.
The figures behind the infographic
| Statistic | Harmanpreet Kaur | Deepti Sharma | Shadab Khan | Ben Duckett |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODIs | 164 | 124 | 73 | 40 |
| Runs | 4541 | 2771 | 955 | 1628 |
| Batting average | 37.22 | 35.98 | 28.08 | 41.74 |
| Strike rate | 76.86 | 70.43 | 83.55 | 99.69 |
| Highest | 171* | 188 | 86 | 165 |
| Hundreds | 7 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Wickets | 31 | 166 | 87 | 0 |
| Best bowling | 2/16 | 6/20 | 4/27 | - |
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News items come from the day's cricket coverage. Scores and margins appear only when two reports agree or a report matches Crickrida's data. Both Vadodara and Lahore scorecards match our data. The partnerships (153, 124 and the unbroken 89) come from the fall of wickets in Crickrida's scorecards. The stand record matches one report and our 130 India women's ODI scorecards (2008–2026, not every match). Lincoln figures appear in both reports. Where reports disagree (one bowling figure in Lincoln) or only one report has a claim, the figure is left out. Career figures are from Crickrida's 30 September 2026 snapshot, before these matches. The tri-series record is from our scorecards. Batting average = runs ÷ dismissals; strike rate = runs per 100 balls.