India’s hopes of reaching their first Women’s T20 World Cup remaining have been dashed as Australia secured a five-run victory in the primary semifinal at Newlands Cricket Ground on Thursday. Despite Australia posting a difficult whole of 172/4, India’s prime three batswomen contributed simply 15 runs. However, captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues staged a valiant comeback with a 69-run partnership off 41 balls. But their dismissals after 4.2 overs in the second half of the innings proved to be the turning level, and India ended up at 167/8 in 20 overs. India’s loss was additionally attributed to their sloppy fielding, dropping two essential catches and conceding 61 runs in the final 5 overs. Despite the defeat, India put up a spirited combat and fell simply wanting making it to the ultimate. Meanwhile, Australia superior to their seventh Women’s T20 World Cup remaining.
In chasing 173, India did not have an incredible begin. Shafali Verma was trapped lbw whereas attempting to flick off Megan Schutt. Smriti Mandhana was rapped on pads in entrance of stumps whereas going for a cut-off Ashleigh Gardner. A horrible mix-up noticed Yastika Bhatia run out, leaving India at 28/3. But Jemimah seemed in nice contact from the phrase go, nailing the pull and drive off Ashleigh. Harmanpreet, then again, started with a cultured cowl drive off Ellyse Perry. With an emphasis to chop down the dot-balls, one thing which has been an issue space for India, Harmanpreet and Jemimah confirmed the intent to rotate the strike and seemed to get a run off virtually each ball.
Harmanpreet went on to smack Jess Jonassen laborious over long-on for six after which used Megan’s tempo to paddle over the keeper for 4 extra. Post bringing fifty of the partnership, Jemimah enthralled everybody with a brace of fours coming via dazzling inside-out drives over additional cowl off Georgia Wareham.
After kickstarting the second half of the chase with a beautiful cowl drive off Darcie Brown, Jemimah fell whereas attempting to ramp a brief ball over Alyssa Healy’s head and gave a skinny edge behind to the keeper. Harmanpreet then bought a reprieve at 37 when Alyssa dropped the catch whereas stretching to her proper aspect.
That helped as Harmanpreet superbly sliced Tahlia McGrath over backward level for 4 after which reduce, and swept off Georgia to get back-to-back boundaries, the second of which bought her fifty in the fifteenth over. But in the identical over, Harmanpreet was sadly run-out for 52 when her bat bought caught whereas attempting to achieve the crease.
Darcie struck in the seventeenth over when she had Richa Ghosh holing out to deep mid-wicket. Deepti Sharma pulled large of mid-wicket off Ashleigh whereas Sneh Rana introduced out a slog-sweep in the hole between deep sq. leg and deep midwicket off Megan.
With 20 wanted off the final two overs, Ellyse Perry produced a full-length dive to save lots of a boundary and gave away simply two runs off Sneh’s batting in a crunch state of affairs. then closed the over by having Sneh clear bowled. Ashleigh efficiently defended 16 off the ultimate over as Deepti’s boundary on the final ball wasn’t adequate to keep away from a loss for India.
Earlier, opener Beth Mooney hit a pleasant 53 whereas captain Meg Lanning utilized the ending touches with 49 not out as Australia posted a robust 172/4. Beth, in her 37-ball knock, hit seven fours and a six aside from incomes a reprieve, whereas Meg was excellent in her 34-ball unconquered keep, hitting 4 boundaries and two sixes, to make up for a gradual begin Australia took 103 runs off the final ten overs.
India have been sloppy in their floor fielding, catching, area placements whereas in their bowling, they have been discovered wanting. Every India bowler had an economic system of above 7.5, with quick bowler Shikha Pandey taking two wickets, whereas Deepti Sharma and Radha Yadav took a wicket apiece.
Alyssa started by driving off Renuka Thakur on the primary ball of the innings. She seemed in scintillating contact, dancing down the pitch to loft Renuka over mid-on after which smashed Deepti in the hole between brief additional cowl and mid-off to select a brace of boundaries.
On the opposite hand, Beth was good on something having width from spinners. She started by reducing and thumping Deepti for 4 and 6 respectively. Shortly after Australia reached their fifty, Alyssa was stumped by Richa off Radha’s bowling.
After a couple of misfields, India’s insipid fielding present prolonged to their catching when Richa dropped a tricky likelihood of Meg when she was at one. Beth continued to feast on width and loop from Radha, taking two fours, the second of which was a catch that Shafali dropped at 32.
Beth used her toes to loft Sneh inside-out to go over cowl for 4 after which squeezed a reduce on a large yorker from Shikha as properly as scooped over brief third-man to get back-to-back boundaries, which took her to fifty.
Shortly after reaching her eighth fifty in opposition to India, Beth could not hold reduce down and the ball went straight to Shafali on the backward level. Meg and Ashleigh feasted on some unfastened deliveries from India, bringing out reduce, pull and sweep to take 5 boundaries off Sneh and Radha mixed.
When Renuka got here again in the seventeenth over, Ashleigh hit two boundaries straightaway, earlier than she was clean-bowled by Deepti in the subsequent over. Meg hit two fours and as many sixes in the final two overs, together with taking 18 runs in the ultimate over off Renuka, to provide Australia a robust end.
Brief scores: Australia 172/4 in 20 overs (Beth Mooney 53, Meg Lanning 49 not out; Shikha Pandey 2-32, Deepti Sharma 1-30) beat India 167/8 in 20 overs (Harmanpreet Kaur 52, Jemimah Rodrigues 43; Darcie Brown 2-18, Ashleigh Gardner 2-37) by 5 runs
