India face NZ in Women’s WT20 opener on Nov 9

: The Indian women’s cricket team will open its World T20 campaign against New Zealand on November 9, according to the ICC. The 10-team tournament will be played across three venues in the West Indies from November 9-24.

India are in Group B with three-time champions Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand and Qualifier 2. Group A has defending champions West Indies, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Qualifier 1.

India will face Pakistan on November 11, Qualifier 2 on November 15 and Australia on November 17. The Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua will host both semifinals on November 22 and the final on November 24.

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hides in the strangest of places. Four days before the French Grand Prix, it was reported that Ferrari might be looking to replace Kimi Raikkonen for the next season, swapping the flamboyant Finnish driver with a bright young Frenchman. This is far from typical Ferrari behaviour since the Italian outfit is known to hire highly experienced and proven pilots. Raikkonen, the last Ferrari driver to win a world championship (2007), has raced 278 races, 138 of them for Ferrari.

Charles LeClerc, 20, is nine races old, but these have been sterling performances where he has driven the wheels off his Sauber and made the car look better than it is. Lending credence to the rumours is the fact that LeClerc is the most impressive product of the Ferrari Driving Academy. If he replaces Raikkonen — at 38 he is beginning to look his age on the track —he could rejuvenate the spirit of Ferrari with raw homegrown talent, much like Hamilton did as