Kampi Nainhabo earned a first call-up… — and 9 more from the cricket world

Quick sweep of stories worth flagging — each summarised in a line.

• Kampi Nainhabo earned a first call-up to the squad. Uganda will face Rwanda and Namibia in the series.

• MCA Team C won the first Captain Diana T20 Trophy. The tournament was created to identify talent for Mumbai’s U-23 women’s team. Siya Modi, Ashwini Nishad, Sharvi Save and Hurley Gala performed well.

• James Anderson met Lancashire’s new hierarchy before the season. Anderson said he was shocked by the decision to release him. Anderson said the decision made him question himself.

• India played their first women’s Test fifty years ago. Shantha Rangaswamy commented on the pioneers’ struggles and legacy. Rangaswamy said the pioneers still deserve recognition.

• Chinmay Sutar, a Mizoram batter, broke a record set by Australian cricket legend William Ponsford that had stood for 123 years.

• BCCI stated that the Women's Premier League will soon be expanded and that more teams will participate, admitting that five teams are too few for the competition.

• A video of a missed handshake between Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur went viral after India's ODI series win against Zimbabwe, prompting social media users to speculate about tension between the players.

• Rodrigues injured her hamstring on August 3 while playing for Southern Brave in The Hundred.

• Avik Chaudhuri suffered a severe car accident in 2009 that left him paralysed from the waist down and ended his cricket career.

• The first women’s Test between India and West Indies began on October 31 in 1976 at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.