At any cost… Rohit was defeated, but Harmanpreet won, gave solid defeat to Kiwis at home

New Delhi. On one hand, the Indian men’s cricket team lost the Test series to New Zealand at home, while on the other hand, the women’s cricket team won the ODI series by defeating the Kiwis. In the third ODI played in Ahmedabad, India defeated New Zealand by 6 wickets and won the 3-match series 2-1. Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur is very happy with this victory. Harmanpreet says that she wanted to win this series at any cost. Recently, India failed to reach the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup played in UAE.

In the third and decisive ODI, India’s vice-captain Smriti Mandhana (100 runs on 122 balls) scored her eighth century, which is the highest century scored by an Indian in this format. Harmanpreet remained unbeaten on 59 runs as India won by six wickets. Harmanpreet said in the press conference after the match, ‘It was important for us because we wanted to win this series at any cost. As I said in the morning, we discussed a lot of things and am really happy that we were able to make it happen today. Whenever we play, we want to give our 100 percent but sometimes things don’t go your way.

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Took revenge for men’s team’s defeat
India won the first ODI of the series while New Zealand counterattacked in the second match. Before the third ODI, the series was tied at 1-1. After this, India defeated New Zealand in the decisive ODI and won the series. With this victory, the women’s cricket team reduced the pain of losing the men’s Test series to some extent.

‘Happy to bounce back after defeat’
The Indian captain said, ‘As a professional cricketer you have to keep pushing yourself and keep moving forward. We discussed these things in the team meeting, so I am very happy that we were able to make a comeback after the defeat in the last match. Captain Harmanpreet praised Smriti’s brilliant innings. She said, ‘I would like to give credit to Smriti. She was struggling in the beginning but she was successful in scoring runs. Very happy with our partnership. He said that the team needs to work more to become the best fielding team in the world.

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