All-rounder from Agra, Deepti Sharma has been a consistent contributor in India's victories in the recent past. In 19 T20Is, she has claimed 18 wickets with her right-arm off-break bowling and made 95 runs at a strike rate of 90.47. However, she has been a bigger star in One-Day International cricket, thanks to her splendid knock of 188 runs against Ireland in Potchefstroom. With this, she became then second-highest individual scorer in Women's ODIs.
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After the incident, fans of England and some veterans were angry about Deepti's decision. But skipper Harmanpreet Kaur strongly supported her.
Heather Knight, the captain of the England cricket team, took to Twitter and said that Team India shouldn't be justifying their decision to affect run-out by lying.
Many were of the opinion that Deepti and the Indian team should have at least warned her and then affected the run-out. The players and Deepti Sharma remained quiet for a while, but in a recent media interaction, Deepti Sharma spilt the beans as to what really happened.
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England cricketer Stuart Broad also gave his take on the incident.
With the 3rd ODI win, the Harmanpreet Kaur-led team registered a historic win as it was their first-ever series sweep on England soil.
Apart from Shreyas, UAE batter Vriitya Aravind and Nepal's Dipendra Sing Airee were nominated for the month.
Both, Mandhana and Deepti are currently in Australia as part of the Indian team's ongoing tour and will stay back for the franchise league, starting October 14.
The 23-year-old Deepti has represented India in 61 ODIs, scoring 1541 runs at an average of 37.58 and picked 68 wickets.
Mandhana, the Indian T20 vice captain, is set to form a devastating opening partnership with England's Danni Wyatt at Southern Brave.
Blown away in the series-opener, India had bounced back in style in the second ODI but Mithali Raj's side couldn't go the distance in the third game, going down narrowly by six runs via D/L method.
While his limited-overs deputy Rohit Sharma received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, his Delhi teammate Ishant Sharma will get the Arjuna award along with Indian women's cricket team all-rounder Deepti Sharma.
India's limited over vice-captain Rohit Sharma is amongst the five athletes to get India's highest sporting honour -- the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. While Ishant and Deepti will be conferred win the Arjuna Awards.
The other players to have received the notice include Cheteshwar Pujara and Deepti Sharma, who are among the five cricketers in the 110 strong National Registered Testing Pool (NRTP).
The 22-year-old has so far played 54 ODIs and 48 T20Is in which she has taken 64 and 53 wickets respectively.
Rohit Sharma has been nominated by the BCCI for the country's highest sporting honour - the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.
On this day, Punam Raut and Deepti Sharma added 320 runs for the opening wicket against Ireland in 2017.
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