India’s Smriti Mandhana performs a shot throughout ICC Womens T20 World Cup 2023 group B match towards England Women, at St George’s Park, in Gqeberha on Saturday.
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Medium pacer Renuka Singh’s fifer and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana’s positive half-century went in useless as India misplaced to England by 11 runs to suffer their first defeat within the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup right here on Saturday.
Renuka Singh registered her finest bowling figures (5/15) to assist India limit England to 151 for seven after Harmanpreet Kaur opted to bowl.
Renuka did the early harm, selecting up the first three wickets to peg England again after which returned to take two extra in direction of the fag finish of the innings.
In the chase, vice-captain Smriti Mandhana led the cost with a 41-ball 52, which was studded with seven boundaries and a six, whereas Richa Ghosh remained unbeaten on 47 off 34 balls as India fell brief by 11 runs, managing 140 for five of their 20 overs.
India didn’t have the most effective of begins, dropping Shafali Verma within the fourth over. Jemimah Rodrigues and Harmanpreet too departed in fast succession as India slumped to 62 for 3 in 10.2 overs.
But Mandhana and Ghosh shared a 43-run fourth-wicket stand to preserve India within the hunt.
But England skipper Heather Knight made some sensible bowling adjustments in direction of the top to stifle India’s run circulate.
Needing 34 runs off the ultimate two overs, Sophie Ecclestone bowled an excellent penultimate over, freely giving simply three runs and in addition accounted for the wicket of Deepti Sharma.
In the ultimate over, the asking turned too steep, however Ghosh discovered the boundary twice and in addition hit a six off Katherine Sciver-Brunt, however it was not sufficient.
With India needing 59 off 30 balls, Mandhana tried to up the ante and stepped out to hit Sarah Glenn for a most to convey up a well-deserved half-century.
But the bowler had the final snigger as Mandhana departed searching for one too many, caught by Katherine Sciver within the very subsequent ball.
Earlier, India made an ideal begin after opting to bowl as Renuka induced a faint exterior edge from Danni Wyatt and Richha Ghosh gleefully accepted the prospect within the third supply of the day.
Renuka was on fireplace as she accounted for 2 extra English batters in her subsequent two overs to hand India the higher hand after Harmanpreet gained the toss and elected to bowl.
Renuka first cleaned up Alice Capsey within the third over after which got here again to disturb the woodwork of Sophie Dunkley in her subsequent over as England slumped to 29 for 3 in 4.4 overs.
Thereafter, Nat Sciver-Brunt and skipper Heather Knight (28) took the assault to the opposition and performed aggressively.
The duo shared a 51-run stand off simply 38 balls to give some impetus to England’s innings.
But simply when the partnership was trying threatening, Shikha Pandey broke the stand, selecting up her first wicket since October 2021.
It was a fortunate breakthrough for Pandey as Knight picked out Shafali Verma within the covers — the one fielder contained in the circle — from a juicy full toss exterior off.
Nat Sciver did all of the laborious work en route her 42-ball 50 however gave away her wicket when England wanted her probably the most, caught by Smriti Mandhana at brief third man off Deepti Sharma’s bowling because the batter went for a reverse sweep, solely to miscue it.
In the ultimate over of England’s innings, Renuka accounted for Amy Jones (40 off 27) and Katherine Sciver-Brunt to file her finest T20I bowling figures.
England are via to the semi-finals, whereas India will play Ireland subsequent on February 20.
Teams:
India: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Richa Ghosh (wk), Shikha Pandey, Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Renuka Thakur Singh.
England: Sophia Dunkley, Danielle Wyatt, Alice Capsey, Nat Sciver Brunt, Heather Knight (c), Amy Jones (wk), Katherine Sciver Brunt, Sophie Ecclestone, Charlotte Dean, Sarah Glenn, Lauren Bell.
