India women's national cricket team
India Women's cricket team
The India women's national cricket team, also known as Women in Blue, represents India in international cricket. It is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, and is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test, ODI and T20I status. They are the reigning Asian Games gold medalists.
The team has played 41 Test matches, winning 8, losing 6 and drawing 27. They played their first international match on 31 October 1976 in a Test against the West Indies at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.
The team has played 322 ODI matches, winning 176, losing 140, tying 2 and with 4 ending in a no-result. As of June 2024, India is ranked fourth in the ICC Women's ODI and T20I Team Rankings on 104 rating points. India has reached the Cricket World Cup final on two occasions, losing to Australia by 98 runs in 2005 and losing to England by 9 runs in 2017. They have won the ODI Asia Cup 4 times in 2004, 2005-06, 2006, 2008.
The team has played 199 T20I matches, winning 108, losing 84, tying 1 and with 6 ending in a no-result. As of June 2024, India is ranked third in the ICC Women's ODI and T20I Team Rankings on 263 rating points. India has reached the finals of the T20 World Cup once, losing to Australia by 85 runs in 2020. They have won the T20I Asia Cup 3 times in 2012, 2016, 2022. In addition, they have won a gold medal at the 2022 Asian Games, and a silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Smriti Mandhana is the present vice captain of the Indian Women's National Cricket Team.
History.
The British brought cricket to India in the early 1700s, with the first cricket match played in 1721. It was played and adopted by Kolis of Gujarat because they were sea pirates and outlaws who always looted the British ships, so the East India Company tried to manage the Kolis in cricket and been successful. The first Indian cricket club was established by the Parsi community in Bombay, in 1848; the club played their first match against the Europeans in 1877. In 1911, an Indian men's cricket team was formed and toured England, where they played English county teams. The India men's team made their Test debut against England in 1932. The first women's Test was played between England and Australia in 1934.
Women's cricket arrived in India much later; the Women's Cricket Association of India (WCAI) was formed in 1973. The Indian women's team played their first Test match in 1976, against the West Indies. India recorded its first-ever Test win in November 1978 against West Indies under Shantha Rangaswamy's captaincy at the Moin-ul-Haq Stadium in Patna.
The WCAI, the governing body for women's cricket, was affiliated to the International Women's Cricket Council. As part of the International Cricket Council's initiative to develop women's cricket, the Women's Cricket Association of India was merged with the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2006/07.
In 2021, the BCCI announced that Ramesh Powar would become the Head Coach of the Indian Women's Cricket Team. In 2022, Indian Women script history by winning 1st series on England soil in 23 years.
Governing body.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the governing body for the Indian cricket team and first-class cricket in India. The Board has been operating since 1928 and represents India at the International Cricket Council. It is amongst the richest sporting organisations in the world. It sold media rights for India's matches from 2006 to 2010 for US$612,000,000. It manages the Indian team's sponsorships, its future tours and team selection. The International Cricket Council (ICC) determines India's upcoming matches through its future tours program.
Selection Committee.
On 26 September 2020, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the appointment of All-India Women's Selection Committee.
Neetu David, former left-arm spinner, heads the five-member selection committee.
Sponsorship.
The current sponsor of the team is Dream11 from July 2023. The team was sponsored by Byju's from September 2019 to March 2023. OPPO's sponsorship was to run from 2017 until 2022, but was handed over to BYJU's on 5 September 2019. Previously, the Indian team was sponsored by Star India from 2014 to 2017, Sahara India Pariwar from 2002 to 2013.
Nike had been a long time kit supplier to team India having acquired the contract in 2005, with two extensions for a period of five years each time; in 2011 and 2016 respectively. Nike ended its contract in September 2020 and MPL Sports Apparel & Accessories, a subsidiary of online gaming platform Mobile Premier League replaced Nike as the kit manufacturer in October 2020.
On 30 August 2019, following the conclusion of the Expression of Interest process for Official partners’ Rights, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced that Sporta Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Dream11), LafargeHolcim (ACC Cement and Ambuja Cement) and Hyundai Motor India Ltd. have acquired the Official partners' Rights for the BCCI International and Domestic matches during 2019–23.
Paytm acquired the title sponsorship for all matches played by the team within India in 2015 and extended the same in 2019 until 2023. Star India and Airtel have been title sponsors previously.
International grounds.
All stadiums of india
Forthcoming fixtures.
The recent results and forthcoming fixtures of India in international cricket:
Captains.
Mithali Raj
Smriti Mandhana
Current squad.
This lists all the active players who played for India in the last 12 months or were named in the recent ODI or T20I squads. Uncapped players are listed in "italics". Updated on 29 October 2024
Players also receive a match fee of () per Test match, () per ODI, and () per T20I. The BCCI adopted a pay equity policy in match fees for men's and women's teams on 27 October 2022.
Statistics.
Test cricket.
Most Test runs for India
Most Test wickets for India
"Players in bold text are still active with India."
One Day Internationals.
Most ODI runs for India
Most ODI wickets for India
"Players in bold text are still active with India."
Twenty20 Internationals.
Most WT20I runs for India
Most WT20I wickets for India
"Players in bold text are still active with India."
• Highest team total: 201/5 v UAE, 21 July 2024 at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Sri Lanka
• Highest individual score: 103, Harmanpreet Kaur v New Zealand, 9 November 2018 at Providence Stadium, Guyana
• Best innings bowling: 5/11, Jhulan Goswami v Australia, 23 March 2012 at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam
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List of India women Test cricketers
Test cricket is the longest form of cricket. The women's variant of the game includes four innings to be completed over four days of play with eleven players in each side. The first women's Test was played between England and Australia in 1934. However, India did not play Test cricket until 1973 when the Women's Cricket Association of India was formed. The Indian women's team played their first Test match in 1976, against the West Indies. The Women's Cricket Association of India was merged with the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2006 as part of the International Cricket Council's initiative to develop women's cricket.
India have played 41 Tests, starting with their first Test in 1976. They first won a Test in Patna (1976), in front of over 25,000 spectators, against the West Indies but did not win again until 2002, when they won against South Africa. The team has remained unbeaten since 2006, over the course of three Test matches.
Two of India's players, Diana Edulji and Sudha Shah, have featured in more than 20 Test matches. Ten other players have played in ten or more Test matches. Sandhya Agarwal is India's all-time leading run scorer, and is ranked sixth among players from all countries. Among the top ten run scorers of all time, she has the fourth-highest average. Sandhya Agarwal and Mithali Raj, with scores of 190 and 214 respectively, were record holders for the most runs scored in an innings. Former captains Diana Edulji and Shubhangi Kulkarni are third and sixth in terms of most wickets taken in a career while Neetu David has the best bowling figures in an innings, having taken 8 wickets, conceding 53 runs in England's second innings in the hundredth women's Test.
Since the team was formed, 94 women have represented India in Test cricket. This list includes all players who have played at least one Test match and is arranged in the order of debut appearance. Where more than one player won their first Test cap in the same Test match, those players are listed alphabetically by last name at the time of debut.
"Statistics are correct as of 1 July 2024."
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Mithali Raj
Indian cricketer (born 1982)
Mithali Raj (born 3 December 1982) is an Indian former cricketer who captained the national team from 2004 to 2022. She is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket, and ESPN ranked her as one of the greatest female cricketers of all time. Raj has received several national and international awards, including the "Wisden" Leading Woman Cricketer in the World in 2017, Arjuna Award in 2003, the Padma Shri in 2015, and Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2021.
Raj holds numerous records in international cricket. She is the only female cricketer to surpass 7,000 runs in Women's One Day International (WODI) matches. She is the first player to score seven consecutive 50s in ODIs. She also holds the record for most half-centuries in WODIs.
In 2005, Raj became the permanent captain of India. She is the only female player to have captained India in more than one ICC ODI World Cup final, doing so in the 2005 and the 2017.
In June 2018, during the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup, she became the first player from India to score 2000 runs in T20Is. She also became the first female cricketer to reach 2000 WT20I runs.
On 1 February 2019, during India's series against New Zealand Women, Mithali Raj became the first woman to play in 200 ODI matches. In September 2019 she announced her retirement from T20Is to focus on ODI cricket. In 2019, she became the first woman to complete 20 years in international cricket.
In July 2021, Raj broke Charlotte Edwards's record of 10,273 runs to become the player with the most runs in women's international cricket.
On 8 June 2022, Raj announced her retirement from all formats of international cricket.
Early life.
Mithali Raj was born on 3 December 1982, in Jodhpur, Rajasthan to a Tamil speaking family. Her mother is Leela Raj, and her father, Dorai Raj, was a warrant officer in the Indian Air Force. She lives in Hyderabad, Telangana.
Raj started playing cricket at the age of ten. She graduated from Keyes High School for Girls in Hyderabad, and Kasturba Gandhi Junior College for Women in Secunderabad. She received cricket coaching in elementary school alongside her older brother.
Domestic career.
Raj played for Air India alongside Purnima Rau, Anjum Chopra, and Anju Jain, before joining Railways for the domestic championship. She has played for the Supernovas and Velocity in the Women's T20 Challenge.
International career.
Raj has played all three of India's cricket formats: Test, ODI, and T20. She was named among the probables for the 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup when she was fourteen, but she did not make it to the final squad. She made her ODI debut in 1999 against Ireland at Milton Keynes, UK, and scored an unbeaten 114 runs. She made her Test debut in the 2001–02 season against South Africa at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
On 17 August 2002, at the age of 19, she broke Karen Rolton's world record for the highest individual test score of 209* in her third test, scoring a new high of 214 against England in the second and final test at County Ground, Taunton, UK. The record has since been surpassed by Kiran Baluch of Pakistan, who scored 242 against the West Indies in March 2004.
In South Africa in 2005, Raj led India to their first finals in 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup, where they lost to Australia.
In August 2006 she led her team to their first-ever Test series victory in England, and concluded the year by successfully defending the Asia Cup without losing a single game.
Mithali Raj won the 2003 Arjuna award.
At the 2013 Women's World Cup, Raj was the number 1 woman ODI cricketer. In her career , she scored one century and four fifties in Test cricket, five centuries and five fifties in ODIs, together with best bowling figures of 3–4 in ODIs, and ten fifties in T20s.
In February 2017 she became the second player to score 5,500 runs in ODIs.
Raj is the first player to captain the most matches for India in ODI and T20I.
In July 2017 she became the first player to score 6,000 runs in WODIs. She led the Indian team to the final of the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup where the team lost to England by nine runs.
In December 2017 she played on the ICC Women's ODI Team of the Year.
In October 2018 she played on India's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.
Raj retired from T20I cricket in September 2019, saying in a BCCI press statement: "After representing India in T20 internationals since 2006, I wish to retire from T20Is to focus my energies on readying myself for the 2021 one-day World Cup".
In November 2020, Raj was nominated for the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade, and the award for women's ODI cricketer of the decade.
In May 2021 she was named captain of India's Test squad for their one-off (one-time only) match against the England women's cricket team. In January 2022, she was named captain of India's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.
On 8 June 2022, Raj announced her retirement from all formats of International cricket.
Coaching career.
Raj was the batting consultant for India women's national cricket team, and has played as a player-coach.
Records.
Mithali Raj was involved in controversy with cricket management because of her attitude towards the game during the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20. In a letter to the BCCI, she accused coach Ramesh Powar and BCCI COA member Diana Edulji of bias, and of humiliating her by not including her in the T20 world cup semifinals. Powar, in turn, criticized Raj for threatening to retire from cricket when asked to play down the batting order. He further accused Raj of "blackmailing and pressuring coaches" and causing division in the team during the recently concluded World T20. He added, "despite being a senior player in the team she puts in minimum inputs in team meetings. She could not understand and adapt to the team plan. She ignored her role and batted for own milestones. Lack of keeping the momentum going which was putting extra pressure on other batters." Coach Powar also criticized Raj's 50 against Ireland in the same tournament, in which she ended up playing 25 dot balls.
Her relationship with the T20 team's captain Harmanpreet Kaur was strained. However, after reappointment of Ramesh Powar as Head Coach of the Indian women's cricket team in May 2021, the two have reconciled. Raj and Kaur confirmed in various interviews that there was no bad blood between them.
Outside cricket.
Personal life and interests.
She is a Bharatanatyam dancer.
In popular culture.
After the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup, Viacom 18 Motion Pictures acquired the rights to make a feature film of Raj's life. She said, "Hoping that this movie inspires more people, especially young girls to take up sports as a career".
Shooting was scheduled to start in 2019. Raj said "I think Priyanka Chopra will be a great choice (to play me in the biopic). Our personalities match a lot. I am not a movie buff, so I'd love the experts to do their job." However, finally Taapsee Pannu was cast in the role of Mithali Raj in a biopic titled "Shabaash Mithu". Rahul Dholakia was to direct in 2020. However, filming was delayed due to COVID-19. In June 2021, Srijit Mukherji replaced Dholakia as director. The film was released on 15 July 2022. The movie was a financial disaster, earning only rupees 2.88 crore from a budget of 30.0 crore.
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Pooja Vastrakar
Indian cricketer (born 1999)
Pooja Vastrakar (born 25 September 1999) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the national team as an all-rounder. She is a right-arm medium-fast bowler and right-handed batter. She made her international debut for India in 2018, against South Africa. In domestic cricket, she represents Madhya Pradesh.
Early life.
Vastrakar initially started playing cricket with the boys near her neighborhood in Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh. She later started going to the stadium and practiced net batting where the coach Ashutosh Shrivastava realized her talent and started her formal training. She started off as a batter and later on when she joined the Madhya Pradesh team, she started fast bowling alongside her batting. At the age of 15, she was a part of India Green Women Squad. In 2016, while Vastrakar was fielding during a senior women's domestic match, she twisted her knee. This led to her getting surgery done for her anterior cruciate ligament tear which put her National call-up in jeopardy. The Challenger Trophy in 2018 played a pivotal role in Vastrakar's selection for India's South Africa tour.
Vastrakar's father is a retired employee of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). Her mother died when she was ten years old. She has four sisters and two brothers and is the youngest of seven siblings.
International career.
She made her Women's One Day International cricket (WODI) debut for India Women against South Africa Women on 10 February 2018. She made her Women's Twenty20 International cricket (WT20I) debut for India Women against South Africa Women on 13 February 2018.
In October 2018, she was named in India's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. However, she suffered an injury during a warm-up match, and was later ruled out of the tournament. In January 2020, she was named in India's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.
In May 2021, she was named in India's Test squad for their one-off match against the England women's cricket team. Vastrakar made her Test debut on 16 June 2021, for India against England. In January 2022, she was named in India's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. She scored 156 runs averaging 26.00, and took 10 wickets averaging 18.30 in the tournament. In July 2022, she was named in India's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. She was named in the India squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup.
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Shafali Verma
Indian cricketer (born 2004)
Shafali Verma (born 28 January 2004) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the women's national cricket team. In 2019, at the age of 15, she became the youngest cricketer to play in a Women's Twenty20 International (T20I) match for India. In June 2021, she became the youngest player, male or female, to represent India in all three formats of international cricket. On 8 October 2022, she became the youngest cricketer to complete 1,000 runs in T20 Internationals. Under her captaincy, India won the 2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup.
Early life and education.
Verma was born in Rohtak, Haryana, to father Sanjeev Verma and mother Parveen Bala. She has an older brother, Sahil, and a younger sister, Nancy (or Nensi). All three of them play cricket. Her father, "[a] die-hard cricket fan" who was unable to pursue cricket as a profession due to family pressure, is the proprietor of a small jewellery shop.
Verma began playing cricket at the age of eight. Her brother, a leg spinner, and her father would take her to a local ground to practise in the nets. In 2019, she told "Hindustan Times":
<templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />"Both would bowl for long hours and I would hit the ball hard. That’s where I learnt this rule – if the ball is there to be hit then it should be hit hard."
Verma's father is a fan of "cricketing god" Sachin Tendulkar, and often watched videos of Tendulkar's innings with Verma and her brother. Tendulkar also became Verma's idol.
In late 2013, Verma went, for the first time, to Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium in Lahli, a small town near Rohtak, with her father to see Mumbai playing a Ranji Trophy group fixture against Haryana. There, with Verma sitting on her father's shoulder, they watched Tendulkar featuring in his final domestic match; Verma cheered every time her idol scored.
At around that time, Verma's father took steps to enrol her in a cricket academy in Rohtak.
Initially, all of the Rohtak academies refused to admit Verma, because she was a girl. Eventually, on her father's instructions, she cut her hair short, and disguised herself as her brother. The two siblings looked alike and had similar hairstyles. Then, her father enrolled her, as a boy, in the Shree Ram Narain Cricket Academy.
Verma's father later told "The Times of India" that he had been scared someone would notice she was really a girl, but that no one had. "" ("At the age of nine, all children look the same"), he continued.
In 2020, Verma's first coach, Ashwani Kumar, a former Haryana first class cricketer who runs the academy, recounted:
<templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />"When she came to me first as a little kid ... I taught her the basic stance and after few days, she was comfortable hitting the big strokes. Then she started training with the girls four years elder to her and in six months’ times, she was practising with the U-14 boys. She never felt out of place."
Despite her successes at training, Verma had to endure mocking and taunts from neighbours and relatives about her involvement in a game they considered to be for boys. In response, she told her father that one day they would all be chanting her name.
Verma was also not permitted to compete in the Academy's male-only tournaments. According to her father, "the organisers felt that she would get hurt," and so she further trained under his supervision instead. Verma also disguised herself as her brother once again when he was unable to participate in an U-12 cricket tournament due to illness. The "Hindustan Times" later observed that "Shafali ... played the entire tournament as Sahil ... amazing knocks in the 10-overs-a-side matches and even won the Player of the Tournament award."
Turning out against boys was still not ideal for Verma, however. According to her father:
<templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />"It was not easy for her to play against the boys as she often used to get hit on the helmet. On a few occasions, the ball even smashed her helmet grill. I used to get worried but she never gave up."
A solution presented itself when Verma began her secondary education in Class V at St. Paul School, Rohtak. The school's principal, Kalvinder Sidhu, was impressed by her enthusiasm and zeal for cricket, and asked the school coach Sunil Vats to establish a cricket academy for girls. Verma was less successful in the classroom, and failed her Class X exams. She then moved to Class X at Mandeep Senior Secondary School, Rohtak, which is run by the same management. As of 2019, she was hoping to re-sit the exams but was very busy playing cricket.
Career.
Before international cricket, she played for Velocity in the Women's T20 Challenge in which she scored 34 runs in 31 balls. In September 2019, she was named in India's Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) squad for their series against South Africa. She made her WT20I debut for India at the age of fifteen, against South Africa, on 24 September 2019. She was the youngest player to play for India in a T20I match, and in November 2019 against the West Indies, became the youngest half-centurion for India in international cricket. Against the West Indies, she scored 158 runs in five matches, and was named the player of the series.
In January 2020, she was named in India's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia, and was awarded with a central contract by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Ahead of the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup, she was ranked as the number one batter in women's T20I cricket.
In May 2021, she was named in India's Test and Women's One Day International (WODI) squads for their series against the England women's cricket team. Verma made her Test debut on 16 June 2021, for India against England, scoring 96 runs in her first Test innings. The Test match was drawn, and Verma was named the player of the match after scoring 159 runs in her two innings. Verma made her WODI debut for India, against England, on 27 June 2021. She was signed by Birmingham Phoenix for the first season of The Hundred.
In July 2021, she played in India's tour of England. In the one-off Test, she was named the Player of the Match, scoring a 96 off 152 in the first innings then a 63 off 83 in the second. In the first ODI, she scored 15 off 14, then a crucial 44 off 55 in the second. In the third and last ODI, she scored 19 off 29. In the first T20, she was bowled off the second ball of the innings. In the second T20, she scored 48. In the third and final T20, she was once again bowled in the first over. She was the high scorer in Tests of the series, 7th in the ODIs, and finally 7th in T20s.
She played for Sydney Sixers in the 2021 WBBL, where she scored her maiden fifty against Hobart Hurricanes. In January 2022, she was named in India's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. In July 2022, she was named in India's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
In the 2023 Women's Premier League Auction, she was sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 2 crore. In her first match against Royal Challengers Bangalore, she scored her maiden fifty, scoring 84 runs in just 45 balls.
In July 2024, she participated in a one-off test between India and South Africa. She scored 205 off 197, forming a 292 opening partnership (see below).
She was named in the India squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup and their home ODI series against New Zealand in October 2024.
Fastest Women's Test Double Century.
Shafali became the second Indian after former captain Mithali Raj to score a double century in Test cricket, nearly 22 years after Raj's feat. Mithali had scored 214 off 407 balls during the drawn second Test against England at Taunton in August 2002.Throughout her aggressive innings, she struck an impressive 23 fours and eight sixes. She reached her milestone with back-to-back sixes off off-spinner Delmi Tucker, followed by a single. Her brilliant knock finally came to an end when she was run out for 205 off 197 balls.
Playing style.
Verma is a right-handed opening batter with a prominent bat-swing who occasionally bowls right arm offbreaks. Mithali Raj, who later captained her in both domestic and international matches, first watched her playing in a domestic match between Haryana and Railways, during which Verma scored a half century. In mid 2024, Raj told Lavanya Lakshmi Narayanan, writing for "Sportstar":
<templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />"She was a bit one-dimensional back then. She would score primarily on the onside. But she had raw power for a youngster."
In the same article, Narayanan observed:
<templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />"Starting out, Shafali was a twitchy teenager at the crease, constantly moving around in trying to find a way to dispatch the ball out of the ground. This also threw up errors in judgement of line and length at times which triggered a dismissal."
Early in her international career, Verma was noted to have "big-hitting prowess", a "fearless approach" and a "love" of 'playing in the V' (ie hitting to between long-off and long-on). She was also said to have a cover drive "from the book." According to Narayanan, she still had, as of 2024, "... the image of a trigger-happy six hitter ... [with a] quintessential Haryanvi swagger ... [and an] unfiltered quality." However, Narayanan also wrote:
<templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />"Much has changed about this Rohtak-born batter in her nascent career. She has learnt to expand her striking arc, worked on running between the wickets and a nagging weakness for the short ball, and even her hairstyles."
Verma herself said in mid 2021 that she tries "... to take lessons from every series and keep improving as a cricketer." She had also, she said, been encouraged by all of her national team-mates, coaches and support staff. During the COVID-19 pandemic, her coach Ashwini Kumar set up nets and a bowling machine for her in his backyard, so that she could have supplementary batting training. Additionally, in early 2021, she attended a training camp with the Haryana men's team, at which she was given assistance with her back-foot game, and in dealing with bouncers.
In March 2024, after leading her Capitals team to victory with a half century in a WPL match, Verma commented that she had changed a few things and felt more stable at the crease. Having previously struggled with consistency, she had learned from her Capitals captain, Meg Lanning, to score better, build her innings better, and bat longer. She also felt able to hit her shots clearly, and find gaps in the field, although she did not elaborate.
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Kiran Baluch
Pakistani cricketer
Kiran Maqsood Baluch (born 23 February 1978) is a Pakistani former cricketer who played as an all-rounder, batting right-handed and bowling right-arm off break. She appeared in three Test matches and 40 One Day Internationals for Pakistan. She holds the record for the highest score in women's Test cricket, scoring 242 against the West Indies in 2004. She played domestic cricket for Karachi.
Early life and introduction to cricket.
Born as the eldest child of her family, Baluch started playing cricket at a young age. As a child, she also played basketball and badminton since her school did not have facilities for women to play cricket. Her father was a professional cricketer who played


Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1973 single by Bob Dylan
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, written for the soundtrack of the 1973 film "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid". Released as a single two months after the film's premiere, it became a worldwide hit, reaching the Top 10 in several countries. The song became one of Dylan's most popular and most covered post-1960s compositions, spawning covers from Eric Clapton, Guns N' Roses, Randy Crawford, and more.
Described by Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin as "an exercise in splendid simplicity", the song features two short verses, the lyrics of which comment directly on the scene in the film for which it was written: the death of a frontier lawman (Slim Pickens) who refers to his wife (Katy Jurado) as "Mama".
It was ranked number 190 in 2004 by "Rolling Stone" magazine, in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and number 192 in 2010, but excluded from the revised list in 2021.
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Other Bob Dylan versions.
According to his website, Dylan has performed the song in concert 460 times between its live debut in 1974 and its last outing in 2003. Some of these versions have appeared on Dylan's live and "Bootleg Series" albums including:
Eric Clapton and Arthur Louis versions.
In January 1975 Eric Clapton played on Arthur Louis's recording of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" which was arranged in a cross-over reggae style. After the recording sessions with Louis, Clapton recorded his own version of the song which was released as a single in August 1975 two weeks after Louis's version. This version was released on '. Clapton's version made it to No. 38 on the UK charts, but the single was less successful in the U.S. where it failed to chart on the "Billboard" Hot 100 (although it reached on No. 109 on "Cashbox's" Looking Ahead chart). Clapton's 1996 boxed set ' features a performance of the song recorded in London in April 1977. There were also performances of the song included on the "Journeyman" (1990) and the "One More Car, One More Rider" (2003) world tours. Several Clapton compilation albums also feature the song.
Guns N' Roses versions.
In 1987, American hard rock band Guns N' Roses started performing the song. A live version of the song was released on the 12-inch single of "Welcome to the Jungle" the same year. They recorded and released a studio version in 1990 for the soundtrack of the film "Days of Thunder" that reached No. 18 on the US "Billboard" Album Rock Tracks chart and No. 56 on Canada's "RPM" 100 Hit Tracks chart.
This studio recording was slightly modified for the band's 1991 album "Use Your Illusion II", discarding the responses in the second verse. Released as the second single from the album, it reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart and the New Zealand Singles Chart. Elsewhere, the single topped the charts of Portugal, Belgium, and the Netherlands; it was the best-selling song of 1992 in the latter country. In Ireland, where the song also reached No. 1, it became Guns N' Roses' third (and to date last) number-one single as well as their ninth consecutive top-five hit.
Their performance of the song at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992 was used as the B-side for the single release and was also included on their "Live Era '87–'93" album, released in 1999. Another version was released on the video "Use Your Illusion World Tour - 1992 in Tokyo II". The music video for this version of the song was directed by Andy Morahan.
Personnel.
Guns N' Roses
Guest musicians
Charts.
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Dunblane tribute.
In 1996 and with the consent of Dylan, Scottish musician Ted Christopher wrote a new verse for "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" in memory of the schoolchildren and teacher killed in the Dunblane school massacre. This has been, according to some sources, one of the few times Dylan has officially authorized anybody to add or change the lyrics to one of his songs.
This version of the song, featuring children from the village singing the chorus with the guitarist and producer of Dylan's album "Infidels" (1983), Mark Knopfler, was released on December 9, 1996, in the United Kingdom and reached No. 1 on the UK and Scottish Singles Charts, as well as No. 6 in Iceland and Ireland. The proceeds went to charities for children.
The song was featured on the compilation album "Hits 97", where all royalties from the song were given to three charities.
Sampled version.
Gabrielle's single "Rise" (2000) sampled from this song. Dylan liked "Rise" so much that he allowed Gabrielle to use the sample for free, while receiving a co-writer credit for providing the song's chord progression and vocal sample.
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RAIGN
Rachel Rabin, also known by her stagename Raign (stylised as RAIGN), is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. Her songs have been featured on the soundtracks of TV series, films and trailers, including "The Vampire Diaries", "The 100", "The Shannara Chronicles", and "Legacies", as well as official trailers for "Younger" and the video game "SnowRunner". Early in her career, she co-wrote several singles for albums by Rita Ora, Jesse McCartney, and Tulisa, and in 2014 she was featured as a vocalist on the track "Fix Me" by Swanky Tunes. Released on Dim Mak Records, the song spent two months at No. 1 on the Russian airplay chart.
In May 2014 her first solo track as RAIGN, titled "Don't Let Me Go", debuted on episode 110 of "The Vampire Diaries". She performed the song on "The X Factor" shortly after, which led to the song peaking at No. 11 on the official UK Indie Breakers Chart and No. 38 on the UK Alternative Chart.
Raign has also had singles included on the TV series "The 100", and she released her EP "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" in March 2015, with the lead track reaching No. 116 on the US iTunes pop charts. In 2015, the use of the EP's track "Knocking on Heaven's Door" in "The 100" was voted Best Use of Music by audiences in the "Entertainment Weekly" TV Season Finale Awards.
In September 2018, Raign released her debut album "SIGN" and two preceding singles "Out of Time" and "Who Are You", which explore influences from classic rock, pop, and orchestral movements in a "culmination of creative passion". In June 2019, RAIGN announced via social media that a Deluxe Edition of Sign would be released.
Early life and education.
Rachel Rabin was born in London, England, where she also spent her childhood. She attended Tolworth Girls' School in Surrey. She is of Latvian and Jewish ancestry. Her grandfather was Oscar Rabin, musician known for founding the Oscar Rabin Band. Her father also had a musical background, and had worked with Frank Sinatra. According to Rabin, she grew up listening to big band music, and "when I first decided to learn an instrument I chose a clarinet and learned to play blues and jazz. My mum was also a semi-professional opera singer and she was always singing and I used to try and emulate her." Her grandfather, who died when she was young, had been a survivor of the Holocaust.
Music career.
Early songwriting and producing (2010–2013).
Working as a vocalist and songwriter, in 2009 she self-released a demo in the UK under her full name. By 2010, she was performing original music with a mix of blues, folk, and pop in the Kingston area, at venues such as the Bull's Head. She played her first show in the United States at the Viper Room in Los Angeles, where she performed a one-hour acoustic set with an accompanying guitarist. Also in the early 2010s she played festivals and venues in Leicester, and in 2011 she performed at the Mint in Los Angeles.
Early singles and debut EP (2014–2015).
In May 2014, RAIGN released her first solo single as RAIGN, titled "Don't Let Me Go",[3] which debuted on episode 110 of The Vampire Diaries. Her second solo single as RAIGN, a cover of "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak, was released on 7 October 2014 as an electropop number. The New York-based electronic duo Mysto & Pizzi mixed the song. At that point Mysto & Pizzi, also known for their work with Avicii and Justin Timberlake, were helping produce much of her work. In February 2015, her original track "Empire of Our Own" was included on an episode of "The 100".
She released the EP "Knocking on Heavens Door" in March 2015, which included three of her previous tracks and the new song "Knocking on Heaven's Door." Her cover of "Knocking on Heavens Door" was included on the soundtrack of the finale to season 2 finale of "The 100" in March 2015. In its first week of release the lead single reached No. 116 on the US iTunes pop charts. In 2015, the use of "Knocking on Heavens Door" in "The 100" was voted Best Use of Music by audiences in the "Entertainment Weekly" TV Season Finale Awards.
"When It's All Over" EP (2016–2017).
On 31 March 2016 Raign announced that her second EP "When It's All Over" would be released on 14 April 2016 and the lead single would premiere on "The Vampire Diaries" on 1 April.
"Born Again" EP (2018).
On January 19, 2018, RAIGN announced via social media that her third EP "Born Again" would be released on January 26 via Millionaire London Records and would feature four new songs produced with film soundtracks in mind, including an orchestral remake of "One Thing Leads to Another", originally recorded by the Fixx.
"Out of Time" (2018).
"Out of Time" was released on 10 August 2018 and premiered by "Clash" magazine. "It's about having a feeling inside that you can do something magical, but you have to move fast or the magic moment will go and if you don't do it now, you'll always regret it. Personal alchemy."
"SIGN" (2018-2019) and singles.
Raign's debut full-length album "Sign" (stylized as "SIGN") was released on September 6, 2018, and two singles were released "Who Are You" and "Now I Can Fly", which premier on the TV shows "Legacies" and "Grey's Anatomy" and on the trailer for the netflix original movie "Tall Girl". The album features orchestral performances, "charged vocal performances", as well as "dark, bass synth" and songs influenced by Dance music. Gig Soup described the album as "Pop romanticism". Rabin states "SIGN" is "a life’s work coming together." With some of the songs being written over the course of five years and describes the lyrics for this album as sometimes having "multiple meanings." RAIGN co-produced much of the record and decided to record the tracks "the old-fashioned way," recording musicians live in a studio.
"SIGN" deluxe edition (2020).
In June 2019, Rabin announced via social media the release of the singles "Walls" and "Now I Can Fly", stating that a Deluxe Edition of "SIGN" would be released later in the year.
Style and influences.
Rabin has self-described the style of her material as "pop romanticism," and modern influences on her music include acts such as Florence + the Machine, Amy Winehouse, Oasis and No Doubt. Exploring this idea of pop as an arena for re-invention, and using digital pop music as a means to express magic, Rabin's fascination with the spectacular seeps into every note of her music. Rabin also cites influences from "early exposure to orchestral/film music, Blues, and Classic Rock". In her teen years, she was exposed to electronic dance music with back-beats and half-time beats. She explored the band scene in psychedelic-rock and found inspiration from artists such as Pink Floyd, their record "The Dark Side of the Moon", "That record rocked my world. It's poetic, cosmic, abstract and incomparable thirty years later," and also local London bands. She also experimented with grooves and tempos from Drum ‘n’ Bass and U.K. Garage styles.
Personal life.
As of 2014, Rabin continued to live in both Kingston upon Thames in southwest London and Los Angeles, where her grandmother lives.
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Arthur Louis
Arthur Louis (21 June 1945 – 24 December 2014) was a British rock, blues and reggae cross-over musician. His surname is pronounced as "luːɪs (Lewis)" and he held British nationality. He released three solo albums and was responsible for introducing the work of musician Mike Oldfield to Virgin Records.
Early life.
Born in Jamaica, Louis moved to Brooklyn with his family at a young age. In his late teens he attended Michigan State University where he joined and toured with the band Terminal Stations, in Brazil and Germany.
Career.
At the beginning of his career Louis toured with terminal stations. He recorded his debut album "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" in 1974, which featured Eric Clapton and Gene Chandler. The title song, a reggae blues version of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" was released as a single in July 1975, a week before Eric Clapton released his own interpretation of Louis's arrangement, of the same song. Louis's release received attention but was over shadowed by Clapton's, which featured Louis's "Someone Like You" as the B-side. Louis's album Knocking on Heaven's Door, eventually climbed to #6 in International charts.
In 1991 the German record label Discovery Sounds licensed and re-mastered his debut album, Knockin' on heaven's door and the subsequent release revived interest in his music. Later renewed interest from Japan prompted the release of his second album Back From Palookaville (1998).
By 2006 Louis was making concert appearances in Europe once more, which re-established him in countries such as Italy and Spain. In December 2008, he appeared on BBC Radio 2's Paul Jones Show. In 2009 he released his third album Black Cat, a retrospective album which included new songs such as the title track "Black Cat". In the same year he played with his band at the London launch of 'Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues'. On 23 August the same year he appeared in London again with Bobby Tench, Jim Cregan and Roger Chapman.
Musical style and influence.
Louis's use of modern blues rock has been compared with Taj Mahal and Peter Brown's review of the album "Black Cat" (2009), stated that Louis was "the personification of easy electric blues" and that he brought "new energy and expression to the form".
He was an established reggae, blues and rock cross-over artist and his interpretation of Bob Dylan's song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" brought him international attention. When writing about the re-release of Louis's "Knockin' on Heaven's door" in 1991, journalist Phil Parker mentioned Louis's influence on Clapton's reggae interpretations. Other songs which exemplify his work in this genre are, his version of Dylan's "I shall be released" and "If I ever needed you" co-written with Scott English, both from Back from Palookaville.
Discography.
Knocking on Heaven's Door (Arthur Louis arrangement).
Arthur Louis's arrangement of the Bob Dylan song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" first appeared on Louis's album "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (1974)
Someone like You (Arthur Louis song).
Louis's version of this song originally appeared on his album "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (1974)
Notes.
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Dūš dīdam ke malā'ek dar-e mey-xāne zadand
14th-century poem by Hafez
 is a ghazal by the 14th-century Persian poet Hafez of Shiraz. The poem is no. 184 in the edition of Hafez's works by Muhammad Qazvini and Qasem Ghani (1941), and 179 in the edition of Parviz Natel-Khānlari (2nd ed. 1983). It was made famous in English by a well-known translation by Gertrude Bell (1897): "Last night I dreamed that angels stood without / The tavern door and knocked".
In this clearly Sufic poem, Hafez describes a vision when he felt he was being given wine by angels. He expresses astonishment that he, despite his lowly status, should be given this privilege. In the second half of the poem he expresses his gratitude to God and makes a reference to the doctrine that total surrender to Love is the surest way to achieve knowledge of the Divine.
The interpretation of the part played by the angels in this poem and their role in the creation of Adam has been much debated by Hafez scholars.
The poem.
The text below is that of the edition of Muhammad Qazvini and Qasem Ghani (1941) (but Parviz Natel-Khanlari's edition has the same order of verses). In the transcription, "x" represents the sound kh (خ) as in Khayyam, the letters gheyn (غ) and qāf (ق) are both written as "q ", and the sign " ' " represents a glottal stop. "Overlong" syllables, that is, syllables which can take the place of a long plus a short syllable in the metre, are underlined.
For various recitations of the poem, see below.
1

Last night I saw angels knocking on the door of a wine-house;
they kneaded Adam's clay and struck it into/with a cup.
2

The inhabitants of the sanctuary of modesty and abstinence of Heaven
with me, a wayside beggar, drank intoxicating wine.
3

Heaven was not able to bear the weight of the Trust that was given to it;
They cast the dice of the work in the name of me, who am crazy.
4

Give pardon to all the seventy-two warring sects;
It is because they didn't see the truth, that they went by the way of fables.
5

Thanks be to God, that between Him and me there is now peace;
The Sufis, dancing, have quaffed the cup of gratitude.
6

Fire is not that with whose flame the candle laughs;
fire is that with which they burnt up the harvest of the moth.
7

No one like Hafez has removed the veil from the cheek of thought,
since they began to comb the curls of hair of speech with a pen.
The metre.
The metre is called "ramal-e maxbūn" ("hemmed "ramal""), since in contrast to the usual "ramal" with its feet of – u – –, all the feet except the first are "hemmed", that is, shortened, to u u – –. It is a catalectic metre since the last foot "fa'ilātun" lacks the final syllable and becomes "fa'ilun".
In the scheme below, x = "anceps" (i.e. long or short syllable), u = a short syllable, and – = a long syllable:
| x u – – | u u – – | u u – – | u u – |
In Elwell-Sutton's system of Persian metres this metre is classified as 3.1.15. The final pair of short syllables is "biceps", that is, the two short syllables may be replaced by a single long syllable; this occurs in about 35% of lines. The first syllable in this metre is long in about 80% of lines.
This metre is fairly common in classical Persian lyric poetry, and is used in 143 (27%) of the 530 poems of Hafez.
Notes on individual verses.
Verse 1.
The meaning of this verse has been much debated. Mahouzi (2018) writes concerning the first two verses:
"These two verses have been controversial from many points of view, and there have been differences between Hafez scholars concerning their interpretation. These differences principally concern the role which the angels played in the creation of Man. The first question is how the angels had a role in creating Adam and kneading his mud. Were the angels not those same cavilling praise-singers who criticised God for creating Adam? If Love is what separates man from angels, what are the angels doing at the door of the tavern of Love (particularly at that time when Adam’s mud had not yet been kneaded)? What did Hafez mean by "striking Adam’s mud to a cup"? In addition, what is the meaning of an angel drinking wine with a human? Hafez specialists have given various interpretations of these lines each of which in turn has naturally added to the complications." (Translated from the Persian.)
Mahouzi quotes another verse of Hafez in which an angel is represented as standing at the door of the tavern, which makes it clear that the time being spoken about was that period when Adam was being created out of clay:

O Angel, at the door of the tavern of Love say your praises,
since in that place they are fermenting the clay of Adam!
The Iranian scholar Bahaoddin Khorramshahi explains that the first three couplets are a summary of chapter 4 of the book "Mirsād al-'Ibād" by the 13th-century Sufi philosopher Najm al-Din Razi. In this chapter Razi depicts the workshop of Creation as a tavern where the angels have brought the clay of Adam to the divine Vintner who will knead it into the shape of man.
According to one tradition, Adam's clay was fermented for forty days. Annemarie Schimmel explains: "Mowlana alludes not rarely to the tradition that God kneaded Adam's clay for forty days, and connects this kneading of the dough and its fermentation with the intoxication which still permeates man – verses echoed most perfectly by Hafez."
Some Iranian Hafez scholars interpret the cup as a mould into which the clay from which Adam was created was placed. This interpretation was followed by Herman Bicknell (1875) in his translation: "They shaped the clay of Adam, flung into moulds its weight."
Clarke (1891) writes that the angels hoped that God might "pour into their vessels of readiness the wine of love from the wine-house of the divine world"; but in this they were disappointed and the door was shut in their face.
Gertrude Bell (1897), however, interprets the line as meaning that the angels moulded Adam's clay into a cup. Similarly Bly and Lewisohn translate: "They had kneaded the clay of Adam, And they threw the clay in the shape of a wine cup". Gertrude Bell explains: "I think he means that man himself is the vessel into which divine love and wisdom are poured: and when he says that the angels first brought him wine, he means that by their example they showed him what it was to be intoxicated by the contemplation of God."
Arberry (1947) explains the verse as follows: "(Hafez) saw himself being served with wine by angels out of a cup fashioned of Adam's dust." Most commentators, however, explain the lines as referring not to Adam's dust after he died, but to the clay from which his body was formed at the time of his creation by God.
Seif (2019) interprets the verse as meaning that the angels soaked Adam's clay in wine, to help it ferment.
Verse 2.
The phrase , which occurs in verse 5, means "to quaff a cup". Some commentators interpret the phrase in this verse, , as having a similar meaning, namely that the angels drank wine with Hafez. Clarke, however, interprets the verse as meaning that the angels "cast" the wine on Hafez, and Arberry translates "they sprinkled the wine of drunkenness over me"; Seif interprets the line as meaning "they softened me with wine".
The wine itself has a symbolic meaning in Sufism. Hafiz is said to have explained this verse as follows to the conqueror Tamerlane (although the story itself is probably not authentic):
"Hafiz said, 'O Amir, drinking wine is a Sufic idiom. It does not refer to drinking wine in the general sense. It alludes to the acquisition of knowledge from the perfect ones. However, in the same way that ordinary wine, the drinking of which is not allowed, causes intoxication, the acquisition of knowledge from the initiate also induces a similar drunkenness for the seeker.'"
Two manuscripts, instead of "beggar", "one who sits by the road", have "dweller on the earth". Seif argues that this reading is preferable, because of the antithesis with heaven in the first half of the verse. However, Lewis notes: "Hafez describes himself more than once as a beggar (). He is the beggar who retreats from society to sit alone in a corner ()."
Verse 3.
On the word Annemarie Schimmel explains: "Man was entrusted with the , the "trust" (Sura 33:72) that Heaven and earth refused to carry — a trust that has been differently interpreted: as responsibility, free will, love, or the power of individuation." The Qur'anic verse in question reads: "Indeed, we offered the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant." Arberry comments, "God created man to be his vice-gerent", citing Qur'an Sura 2:30 and 6:166 (165).
 is defined by Steingass as "A die; a throw of dice; drawing lots, a lottery". Some editors, for "the lottery of the work", read "the casting of the lot". de Fouchécour explains: "They cast lots, and the lot fell on this poor mad poet (i.e. Adam)".
Verse 4.
There was a tradition that in Islam there are 72 different sects. Arberry quotes Omar Khayyam:

Drink wine, since it removes from the heart both excess and insufficiency;
and it removes the theology of the seventy-two sects.
Do not abstain from that alchemy from which
if you drink one sip it removes a thousand reasons.
In his "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" (1859), the poet Edward FitzGerald translated this as follows:
The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The two-and-seventy jarring sects confute;
   The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice
Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.
Verse 5.
In this verse, three of the manuscripts have the word ("houris", "virgins of paradise") instead of ("Sufis").
According to Arberry, this verse should be taken closely with verse 6, the common theme being the complete submission of the seeker to the will of God.
Three of the manuscripts have an extra verse after verse 5 (or after verse 6). These floating verses are commonly found in the manuscripts of Hafez and are usually considered to be inauthentic. They are, however, included in Gertrude Bell's translation.
The verse is as follows:

With a hundred harvests of thoughts how come we do not leave the way,
seeing that they diverted the path of Adam, though he was vigilant, with a single grain?
This refers to a tradition that the reason for Adam's fall from Heaven was the eating of a single grain of wheat.
Verse 6.
The image of the moth burning itself in the candle is a favourite one with Persian poets. Annemarie Schimmel traces the idea back to the 10th/11th century Sufi al-Hallaj of Baghdad, from whose writings it appears that "[The moth] does not want the light or the heat but casts himself into the flame, never to return and never to give any information about the Reality, for he has reached perfection." The phrase "sets fire to the harvest of the moth" refers to the moth's total annihilation in the flame.
In their introduction to this poem Avery and Heath-Stubbs write:
"The angels who created him from Adam's clay placed upon him the covenant of God's love. Therefore he remains steadfast, even though the final goal of love is annihilation."
The same three manuscripts mentioned above add another extra verse after verse 6, namely:

The point of love made the heart of contemplatives bleed,
like that mole which they placed on the cheek of the beloved.
Gertrude Bell's translation.
The most famous translation of this poem is by Gertrude Lothian Bell, which was published in her anthology "Poems from the Divan of Hafiz" (1897). E. G. Browne wrote of her translations: "(They) must be reckoned as the most skilful attempt to render accessible to English readers the works of this poet." In his anthology, "Fifty Poems of Hafez" (1947), A. J. Arberry chose Bell's translation to represent this poem. "The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door", echoing Bell's words, is the title chosen for their anthology of thirty Hafez poems by Robert Bly and Leonard Lewisohn (2008).
Bell's translation is as follows:
"Last night I dreamed that angels stood without"
"The tavern door, and knocked in vain, and wept;"
"They took the clay of Adam, and, methought,"
"Moulded a cup therewith while all men slept."
"Oh dwellers in the halls of Chastity!"
"You brought Love's passionate red wine to me,"
"Down to the dust I am, your bright feet stept."
"For Heaven's self was all too weak to bear"
"The burden of His love God laid on it,"
"He turned to seek a messenger elsewhere,"
"And in the Book of Fate my name was writ."
"Between my Lord and me such concord lies"
"As makes the Huris glad in Paradise,"
"With songs of praise through the green glades they flit."
"A hundred dreams of Fancy's garnered store"
"Assail me Father Adam went astray"
"Tempted by one poor grain of corn ! Wherefore"
"Absolve and pardon him that turns away"
"Though the soft breath of Truth reaches his ears,"
"For two-and-seventy jangling creeds he hears,"
"And loud-voiced Fable calls him ceaselessly."
"That, that is not the flame of Love's true fire"
"Which makes the torchlight shadows dance in rings,"
"But where the radiance draws the moth's desire"
"And sends him forth with scorched and drooping wings."
"The heart of one who dwells retired shall break,"
"Rememb'ring a black mole and a red cheek."
"And his life ebb, sapped at its secret springs."
"Yet since the earliest time that man has sought"
"To comb the locks of Speech, his goodly bride,"
"Not one, like Hafiz, from the face of Thought"
"Has torn the veil of Ignorance aside."
See also.
There are also articles on the following poems by Hafez on Wikipedia. The number in the edition by Muhammad Qazvini and Qasem Ghani (1941) is given:
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door (disambiguation)
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a 1973 song written by Bob Dylan.
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Somebody's Knocking at Your Door
American spiritual
"Somebody's Knocking at Your Door", sometimes given as "Somebody's Knocking" and "Somebody's Knockin ' at Yo' Door", is a spiritual. The song's music and text has no known author, but originated among enslaved African-Americans on Plantation complexes in the Southern United States sometime in the early 19th century.
Publications and arrangements.
"Sombebody's Knocking at Your Door" has been published numerous times; including publication within 54 different hymnals catalogued at Hymnary.org. The Hampton Institute (now Hampton University), a historically black college included the spiritual in its 1874 anthology of spirituals edited by Thomas P. Fenner, "Religious Folk Songs of the Negro: As Sung on the Plantations", which was subsequently republished in 1909. John Wesley Work Jr., director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, created one of the earliest known choral arrangements of the spiritual that was written sometime in the first years of the 20th century. Because he never registered a copyright, he lost claim to the rights of this arrangement. John Bunyan Herbert wrote an arrangement for men's chorus which was published in "Rodeheaver Collection for Male Voices: One Hundred and Sixty Quartets and Choruses for Men" (1916).
One of the more well known arrangements of the spiritual for solo voice dates to the year 1919. It was written by the Canadian-American composer Robert Nathaniel Dett. Dett's arrangement for solo voice was popularized by Edward Boatner who sang the arrangement in concerts and church services throughout the United States. Dett also wrote SSA (1921) and SATB (1939) choral arrangements of "Somebody's Knocking at Your Door". Norman L. Merrifield (1906-1977) published a men's chorus arrangement in 1942, and Clarence Cameron White published a mixed chorus arrangement in 1955.
Lyrics.
Somebody's knockin' at your door;

Somebody's knockin' at your door;

O sinner, why don't you answer?

Somebody's knockin' at your door.
Knocks like Jesus,

Somebody's knockin' at your door.

Knocks like Jesus,

Somebody's knockin' at your door.

O sinner, why don't you answer?

Somebody's knockin' at your door.
Can't you hear him?

Somebody's knockin' at your door.

Can't you hear him?

Somebody's knockin' at your door.

O sinner, why don't you answer?

Somebody's knockin' at your door.
Jesus calls you,

Somebody's knockin' at your door.

Jesus calls you,

Somebody's knockin' at your door.

O sinner, why don't you answer?

Somebody's knockin' at your door.
Can't you trust him?

Somebody's knockin' at your door.

Can't you