Women T20 World Cup 2024: This time the Women’s T20 World Cup is being organized in UAE. Warm-up matches have started before the start of the tournament. Where the Indian women’s team has played its first warm-up match. In this match, Team India has defeated the world champion team West Indies by 20 runs. Team India won this match by 20 runs. The role of Jemimah Rodrigues and Pooja Vastrakar has been very important in India’s victory. While Jemimah Rodrigues performed brilliantly with her bat, Pooja Vastrakar showed her strength in bowling.
How was the match?
During this match played in the World Cup, the West Indies team won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first in this match, Team India scored 141 runs losing 8 wickets. Team India did not have a good start in the match. India lost three important wickets on the score of just 23 runs. These three wickets belonged to Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur. From here, Jemimah Rodrigues along with Yastika Bhatia took charge of the innings. During this, Jemimah Rodrigues played an inning of 52 runs in 40 balls. Whereas Yastika Bhatia scored 24 runs in 25 balls. Even though Yastika Bhatia’s innings was very slow, in this situation Team India needed a partnership. Which he did together with Jemima. Hayley Mathews was the most successful bowler for West Indies. He has taken four wickets in this match. Hayley Mathews gave only 17 runs in four overs of this match.
Indian bowlers wreaked havoc in the second innings
The target of 142 runs was not very big for the West Indies women’s team, but they could not chase this target in front of the amazing Indian bowlers. They scored 121 runs by losing 8 wickets in 20 overs and Team India won the match by 20 runs. For India, Pooja Vastrakar took 3 wickets for 20 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, Deepti Sharma also bowled amazingly where she took 2 wickets for 11 runs in 3 overs. For West Indies, Chinelle Henry played an inning of 59 runs in 48 balls. She remained not out yet could not lead her team to victory in the match.
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