New Delhi. India has made a great start in the women’s cricket ODI series. In the first ODI played in Vadodara, India defeated West Indies by 211 runs. This is the Indian team’s biggest win against the West Indies in ODIs. Whereas overall this is the second biggest win in 50 over cricket. In this victory of Team India, experienced opener Smriti Mandhana had an important contribution in batting, while fast bowler Renuka Thakur did wonders in bowling. Mandhana played an inning of 91 runs while Renuka broke the back of West Indies by taking 5 wickets. The Indian team went ahead 1-0 in the 3-match series. After scoring 314 runs for 9 wickets, India bowled out West Indies for 103 runs in 26.2 overs and won against this team by a record margin of runs in ODI.
For India, Renuka Thakur took 5 wickets for 29 runs in 10 overs. For West Indies, Effie Fletcher contributed 24 not out while Sheeman Campbell contributed 21 runs. Whereas Priya Mishra got two successes. Titas Sadhu and Deepti Sharma took one wicket each. West Indies completed the century with the contribution of Effie Fletcher, who came to bat at ninth position, with an unbeaten 24 runs. Apart from him, only Shamen Campbell (21) could cross the 20-run mark for the team.
India scored 314 on the basis of Mandhana’s 91 runs.
Earlier, with the inning of 91 runs by opener Smriti Mandhana, India scored a big score of 314 runs for 9 wickets in the first ODI. Mandhana, who is running in great rhythm, has scored her fifth consecutive half-century innings (T20 and ODI). She gave a great start to the team by hitting 13 fours in her 102-ball innings and scoring most of the runs in a 110-run partnership with Pratika Raval (40 out of 69), who was playing her ODI debut. After Mandhana’s brilliant innings, Harleen Deol (44 runs in 50 balls), Harmanpreet Kaur (34 runs in 23 balls), Richa Ghosh (26 runs in 12 balls) and Jemimah Rodrigues (31 runs in 19 balls) scored quickly. Due to which the Indian team crossed the mark of 300 runs.
This opener became a burden for the team… out on zero in 3 consecutive innings, career in trouble
Who was thrown out like a fly from milk…he hit 4 fours in a row, made a quick fifty and snatched the victory from the opposing team.
Pratika dominated in the debut match
After the exclusion of aggressive batsman Shefali Verma from the Indian team, India tried many players to support Mandhana as an opening batsman. In this sequence, Delhi player Pratika got a chance on Sunday. He batted at a strike rate of 57.97. This 24 year old player also got a lease of life in the 10th over. She was batting on three runs at that time. He hit all four fours of his innings on the leg side. While Pratika was struggling to score runs at a fast pace, Mandhana from the other end entertained the audience with her brilliant cover drives and pull shots.
Indian innings gained momentum after Harmanpreet came to the crease.
The Indian innings gained momentum after captain Harmanpreet Kaur came to the crease. She was scoring runs rapidly by hitting three fours and a six but was run out due to a mistake with Richa. Richa and Jemima continued to score runs rapidly. Jemima hit three fours and a six while Richa showed her aggressive attitude with four fours and a six. Jayda James was the best bowler for West Indies. This left arm spinner took five wickets for 45 runs in eight overs. The Indian team could not score runs quickly due to losing wickets frequently in the last overs. The team scored only 20 runs in the last three overs and lost four wickets, out of which 3 wickets were in the name of James.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : December 22, 2024, 8:10 PM IST