Commonwealth Games 2022: BCCI President Sourav Ganguly congratulates the women’s team on winning the silver medal

New Delhi. In the 2022 Commonwealth Games cricket final, the Australian women’s cricket team won the gold medal by defeating the India team by 9 runs in the final, while the Indian team managed to win the silver medal. In the final match, the Indian team performed well, although in the last few overs, the Indian team’s performance went poorly and this was where the Australian team dominated. BCCI President Sourav Ganguly made a tweet congratulating the women’s team for winning the Team India silver medal, which is being highly appreciated on social media. In his tweet, Sourav Ganguly, while congratulating the women’s team on winning the silver medal, said he congratulated the Indian women’s team on winning the Commonwealth silver medal, saying today’s match was theirs, there will be some disappointment if you lose the gold medal. .

Australia gave a target of 162, India stumbled early

In regards to the match, after winning the toss, the Australian women’s team decided to bat first, Beth Mooney scored the highest 61 runs on 41 balls with the help of 8 fours for Australia, Renuka Singh and Sneha Rana scored 2- 2 in bowling The wickets took their names. Australia scored 161 runs from 20 overs and set a target of 162 runs for India to win. The Indian team, which came after this, got off to a very bad start and starter Smriti Mandhana fell victim to Darcy Brown on a personal score of only 6 runs, their second starter Shefali Verma couldn’t do much either and with the help of 2 fours . , only 11 He could only score. After this, after losing two wickets for 22 runs, crisis began to hang over India. Following this, captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemima Rodrigues bailed India out, a 96-run partnership between the two.

Harmanpreet played captaincy innings

Harmanpreet Kaur played an inning of 61 runs on 43 balls, during which he hit 7 fours and two sixes. On the other hand, Jemima Rodrigues also supported the captain and scored 33 runs on 33 balls with the help of 3 fours. Together they brought India’s score to 118 runs. In the 15th, Megan Scoot dealt India a huge blow from Jemima Rodrigues, Australia came back into the match, after this clash India’s innings faltered, although captain Harmanpreet Kaur held her own at one end, but received the help of another. player Didn’t get along Harmanpreet also fell victim to Ashley Gardner on the last ball of 16. Other than this, Pooja Vastrakar chipped in 1 run, Deepti Sharma 13 runs on 8 balls, Sneha Rana 8 runs on 6 balls, Radha Yadav 1 run, Yastika Bhatia 2 runs and Meghna Singh chipped in 1 run. India was able to manage only 152 runs in their allotted 20 overs and lost the match by 9 runs. For Australia, Ashleigh Gardner took 3 wickets for 16 runs in three overs.