ENGW vs INDW: ​​After losing T20 series, India tightened their grip on ODI, Smriti Mandhana lost a century

ENGW vs. INDW: The Indian women’s cricket team started the three-match ODI series against England with a victory. This is India’s spectacular return to the ODIs after losing the T20I series 2-1. The Indian team won this match brilliantly. India, coached by Harmanpreet Kaur, won the match by 7 wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the series. After the pitchers, the batsmen also played an important role in this victory for India. Vice-captain Smriti Mandhana played a brilliant 91-run inning and Yastika Bhatia and captain Harmanpreet Kaur also scored half a century.

Smriti missed his century, but secured the team’s victory with his batting. He added 96 runs for the second wicket with Yastika Bhatia (50) first after starter Shefali Verma’s (1) wicket fell early in the second to himself. Then, with captain Harmanpreet Kaur (74 not out), he secured the team’s victory by scoring 99 runs for the third wicket. India achieved the goal in 44.2 overs for the loss of 3 wickets.

The English were helpless against sharp skittles.

Veteran Jhulan Goswami, playing his last series, conceded just 20 runs from 10 overs with 2 maidens and a wicket. Apart from them, Meghna Singh, Rajeshwari Gaikwad, Sneh Rana and Harleen Deol also got one wicket each. On the other hand, Deepti Sharma took two wickets for 33 runs in 10 overs and was the best female bowler. Thanks to this excellent game of bowling, the England team was able to score only 227 runs for 7 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs. For the hosts, No. 9 batsman Davidson Richardson scored the most in 50 unbeaten runs.

India outperformed the British in all three departments.

Earlier, the Indian team had come on after losing the three-match T20 series. There were a lot of misses in the team’s batting. The Indian team, who lost the first and last match, defeated the British in the first ODI here in all three departments of bowling, fielding and batting. Whether it was Harmanpreet Kaur’s brilliant catch, or Jhulan’s cheap bowling to take wickets from all the bowlers or the good performance of the batsmen, especially the No. 3 and No. 4, would have eased the team’s concerns in big measure. Now the next two games in the series will be played on September 21 and 24. This series is more important because these matches are played under the ICC Championship.

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