ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, IND W vs PAK W: The Indian team started the Women’s T20 World Cup with a win. The team registered a resounding victory by 7 wickets in the first match played against Pakistan. Batsman Jemima Rodrigues played an important role in this victory of India. Coming at number three, he played an unbeaten inning of 53 runs for the team to win the team. Let us know for what reasons Team India won the first match against Pakistan.
Jemima’s stormy half-century
In this match, while batting first, Pakistan put 149 runs on the board at the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. The team came out to chase the runs, India lost the first wicket for 38 runs in the sixth over. After this, Jemima Rodrigues, who came to bat, first set up her innings. Meanwhile, captain Harmanpreet Kaur (16) lost her wicket in the 14th over. After this it seemed that this match has gone away from the reach of the Indian team.
But Jemima Rodrigues, present at the crease, changed everyone’s thinking and won the team by playing an unbeaten inning of 53 runs in 38 balls. A total of 8 fours were included in this innings of Jemima. During this, his strike rate was 139.47. Team India achieved the target in 19 overs only.
Jemima Rodrigues-Richa Ghosh’s wonderful partnership
Richa Ghosh, who came to bat after the fall of captain Harmanpreet Kaur’s wicket in the 14th over, supported Jemima Rodrigues while handling the innings. Both together added 58 * runs for the fourth wicket and put the match in the account of the Indian team. In this match, Jemima scored 53 and Richa Ghosh played an unbeaten inning of 31 runs.
Shefali Verma gave a good start
Chasing the runs, Yastika Bhatia and Shefali Verma started the innings for Team India. In this, Shefali Verma gave a good start to the team by scoring 33 runs in 25 balls with the help of 4 fours. Shefali batted at a strike rate of 132. Shefali Verma’s wicket fell for 65 runs in the 10th over of the innings.
Superb bowling by Radha Yadav
Apart from batting, Indian team’s star bowler Radha Yadav bowled brilliantly in this match. He took 2 wickets in 4 overs by spending 21 runs with an economy of just 5.20. He made Pakistan’s opener Muneeba Ali and middle order batsman Sidra Amin his victims.
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