Birmingham. Smriti Mandhana scored a half-century in just 23 balls against England in the semi-final. She is the player to score the fastest half-century in T20 for India in women’s cricket. In the semi-finals of the Commonwealth Games 2022, the Indian team defeated England by 4 runs. India had scored 164 runs for 5 wickets while playing first. In reply, England’s team could score only 160 runs for 6 wickets. After the match, Mandhana said that she is in good shape again after two years and would like to repeat this performance against Australia in the final. The gold medal match is to be held tonight at 9.30 Indian time.
Looking at the victory of Team India against England, first Smriti Mandhana gave us a good start by batting aggressively. He scored 61 runs in 32 balls at a strike rate of 191. Hit 8 fours and 3 sixes. That is, 50 runs were scored only from the boundary. In the end, Jemima Rodriguez scored an unbeaten 44 off 31 balls to take the score beyond 160 runs. He hit 7 fours. In the final match of the group round, Jemima remained unbeaten against Barbados with a half-century.
A quick & fiery half-century
Smriti Mandhana’s power performance was on display as she scored the fastest Fifty of #CWG2022
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Spinners brought big success
England team lost 6 wickets in the match. 3 players were run out while the remaining 3 wickets were taken by the spinners. England’s score at one point was 81 for 2 wickets. Sneh Rana took the big wicket of Daniel What. Amy Jones and Natalia Seaver both looked aggressive. He was run out brilliantly by the Indian players. However, fast bowler Renuka Singh could not make an impact in this match. He took 9 wickets in the first 3 matches. During this he took 4-4 wickets in 2 matches.
India women’s cricket team stormed into the CWG 2022 final!
Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma and Sneh Rana starred in India’s win over England#CommonwealthGames #ENGvIND #INDvENG #CWG2022
#INDvENG #INDWvENGW #GoldMedal #CricketTwitter pic.twitter.com/RT8tRIXbQ8— Naini Vishnoi (@NainiVishnoi) August 6, 2022
14 runs not allowed in the last over
England’s team had to score 14 runs to win in the last over with 5 wickets remaining. The bowler was off-spinner Sneh Rana. No run scored on the first ball. A run was scored off the second ball. On the third ball, he dismissed Katherine Brunt. One run each was scored on the 4th and 5th balls. Sofia hit a six on the last ball, but it was insufficient. Sneh Rana took 2 wickets for 28 runs in 4 overs. On the other hand, off-spinner Deepti Sharma took one wicket for 18 runs in 4 overs.
️ THE SUPERWOMEN OF INDIA ️
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Talking about the Commonwealth Games, the Indian women’s team has played 4 matches so far and won 3 matches. The team is just one win away from the gold medal. In the first match, they lost to Australia by 3 wickets. In the next two matches of the group round, the team made it to the semi-finals by registering big wins over Pakistan and Barbados.
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Tags: Commonwealth Games, cwg, England, Harmanpreet Kaur, India Vs England, Indian women cricketer, Smriti Mandhana, Sneh Rana
FIRST PUBLISHED : August 07, 2022, 07:30 IST
