India women’s cricket group recorded a dominating win in the first T20I match against Australia at Navi Mumbai’s Dr Dy Patil Sports Academy on Friday, January 5. An spectacular all-round efficiency helped India to chase down a 142-run goal with 9 wickets.
The Women in Blue registered their largest T20I win against Australia and took a 1-0 lead in the three-match collection at house. West Bengal’s younger pacer Titas Sadhi shone with 4 wickets after which fifties from openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma guided India women to a dominating win in simply 17.4 overs.
Coming from an embarrassing 0-3 defeat in the ODI collection, captain Harmanpreet Kaur gained the toss and elected to bowl first right now.Â
Titas, the 19-year-old right-arm medium pacer, dismissed Beth Mooney in the fourth over to give India a breakthrough. Titas then additional impressed with priceless wickets of Tahlia McGrath and Ashleigh Gardner in the sixth as Australia misplaced their first 4 wickets contained in the powerplay.
The rising teen Phoebe Litchfield and the legendary all-rounder Ellyse Perry introduced Australia again into the sport with a 79-run stand for the fifth wicket. Australia appeared on the observe for the large complete however Indian spinners made a sensational comeback to bowl out the travelling aspect on simply 141 runs in 19.2 overs.
Titas shone with 4 wickets for 17, her career-best spell, and Deepti Sharma and Shreyanka Patil took two wickets every. For Australia, Litchfield top-scored with 49 runs whereas Perry contributed 37 runs to assist their group publish a difficult complete.
Defending 141 runs, younger speedster Darcie Brown conceded 14 further runs in the first over which gave India early management of the sport. Both Shafali and Smriti dominated from the beginning and by no means appeared troubled against Australia’s bowling assault.
Smriti and Shafali pulled off a 137-run stand for the opening wickets with each scoring fifties every. Smriti misplaced her wicket whereas making an attempt an enormous shot off Georgia Wareham however it made no impression on the momentum. Smriti scored 54 runs off 52 balls whereas Shafali remained unbeaten on 64 off simply 44 balls as India chased down the goal in 17.4 overs.
India Women Playing XI: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Amanjot Kaur, Pooja Vastrakar, Shreyanka Patil, Renuka Thakur Singh, Titas Sadhu
Australia Women Playing XI: Alyssa Healy (c & wk), Beth Mooney, Tahlia McGrath, Ellyse Perry, Ashleigh Gardner, Phoebe Litchfield, Grace Harris, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown
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