<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"> <channel> <title><![CDATA[CWG 2022: Sourav Ganguly on India’s silver]]></title> <description><![CDATA[Sourav Ganguly, the President of BCCI has congratulated the Indian women's cricket team on winning a silver medal at the ongoing CWG.]]></description> <link>https://www.cricketwinner.com</link> <generator>RSS for Node</generator> <lastBuildDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:16:19 GMT</lastBuildDate> <atom:link href="https://www.cricketwinner.com/cricket-news/cwg-2022-sourav-ganguly-on-indias-silver/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/> <language><![CDATA[en-US]]></language> <image> <url>https://www.cricketwinner.com/favicon.ico/</url> <title>Cricket Winner</title> <link>https://cricketwinner.com/</link> <width>185</width> <height>185</height> </image> <atom:link href="https://www.cricketwinner.com/cricket-news/cwg-2022-sourav-ganguly-on-indias-silver/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/> <item> <title><![CDATA[CWG 2022: Sourav Ganguly on India’s silver]]></title> <description><![CDATA[Sourav Ganguly, the President of BCCI has congratulated the Indian women's cricket team on winning a silver medal at the ongoing CWG.]]></description> <link>https://www.cricketwinner.com/cricket-news/cwg-2022-sourav-ganguly-on-indias-silver/</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.cricketwinner.com/cricket-news/cwg-2022-sourav-ganguly-on-indias-silver/</guid> <category><![CDATA[Cricket News]]></category> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2022 12:27:50 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>arunava-mitra</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img src="undefined" width="undefined" height="undefined" alt="CWG 2022: Sourav Ganguly on India’s silver"/><figcaption>CWG 2022: Sourav Ganguly on India’s silver</figcaption></figure><br><p>Sourav Ganguly, the President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has praised the Indian women’s cricket team for winning a silver medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games. However, he additionally said that the team would be disheartened on missing gold as it was “their game”. India lost the gold medal match against Australia by 9 runs at Edgbaston, Birmingham as they failed to chase down 162.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" data-src="https://cricketwinner.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/BCCI-Chief-Sourav-Ganguly.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-18625 lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" loading="lazy" /><noscript><img decoding="async" src="https://cricketwinner.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/BCCI-Chief-Sourav-Ganguly.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-18625" loading="lazy"/></noscript><figcaption>Image Source: Cricketer Addictor</figcaption></figure><p>Australia skipper Meg Lanning chose to bat first and posted 161/8 infeasible from Mooney’s knocks of 61 runs. For India, Renuka Singh and Sneh Rana got back with two wickets each.</p><p>In the pursuit of 162, India were controlling everything with Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues pushing ahead. Though, the side imploded from 118/2 to 152 hard and fast, and eventually, Australia wrapped up a success.</p><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Congratulations to the Indian women's team for winning silver ..But they will go home disappointed as it was their game tonite ..<a href="https://twitter.com/BCCIWomen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BCCIWomen</a></p>— Sourav Ganguly (@SGanguly99) <a href="https://twitter.com/SGanguly99/status/1556365190593032192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2022</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></figure><h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-for-india-captain-harmanpreet-top-scored-with-a-knock-of-65" style="font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);"><strong>For India, captain Harmanpreet top-scored with a knock of 65.</strong></h3><p></p><p>Earlier on Sunday, New Zealand had won the bronze medal in women’s cricket after defeating England.</p><p><strong>After silver, Harmanpreet addressed <a href="https://sports.ndtv.com/commonwealth-games-2022/was-their-game-bcci-chief-sourav-ganguly-after-india-womens-cricket-team-lose-cwg-gold-medal-match-vs-australia-3235023">NDTV</a> and said:</strong></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p> “Yeah definitely it is a big moment for all of us. First time, we were participating and the way we played this tournament, it was great to watch. We were close to gold medal, but once again we did the same mistakes we have been doing in the big tournaments. You know, we have to keep working hard on lower-order batting. I am sure we will do well in the upcoming tournaments. I think this silver medal matters a lot, this will definitely motivate young girls back home,” </p><cite>Harmanpreet said.</cite></blockquote><p><strong>ALSO READ: </strong><a href="https://cricketwinner.com/cwg-2022-india-bags-silver-against-australia-in-womens-t20i-cricket-cwg-final/" class="broken_link"><strong>CWG 2022: India bags Silver, against Australia in Women’s T20I Cricket CWG Final</strong></a></p><p>Before the CWG gold award match, Australia’s Tahlia McGrath tried positive for COVID-19, yet she was permitted to play the final.</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>“Well, they did inform us before the toss, it was something which was not in our control. We went with the sportsman spirit, she was not that ill, we did what we had to do, it was not in our control,” </p><cite>said the India skipper.</cite></blockquote>]]></content:encoded> <classification>U/A 13+</classification> </item> </channel> </rss>