India vs Australia Women: The 30th match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup was played between India and Australia at Lord’s, a historic cricket ground. In this match, the Indian team had to face defeat by 6 wickets and with this their journey in this tournament has also ended. Now the teams of Australia and South Africa from Group A managed to make it to the semi-finals. Team India has been out of the group stage of the Women’s T20 World Cup for the second consecutive time.
Indian team captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and batted first and scored 170 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. In this match, Harmanpreet Kaur played a captaincy inning of 56 runs on 27 balls for Team India. The Australian team achieved this target at the loss of 4 wickets in 19 overs. For Australia, Ashley Gardner and Ellyse Perry scored half-centuries and contributed significantly to the team’s victory.
Playing XI of both the teams for India vs Australia match
Australia Women: Beth Mooney (wk), Georgia Woll, Phoebe Lichfield, Ellyse Perry, Ashley Gardner, Georgia Wareham, Annabel Sutherland, Nicola Carey, Sophie Molineux (c), Kim Garth, Lucy Hamilton.
India Women: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Sri Charani, Renuka Singh Thakur, Kranti Gaur.
After winning the toss, Team India came to bat first and Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana gave a great start to the team. Both added 66 runs for the first wicket. Mandhana was run out after scoring 38 runs on 37 balls. Shafali Verma played an excellent inning of 34 runs on 26 balls. After this, for the third wicket, the pair of Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodriguez made a partnership of 64 runs on 45 balls and took the team to a fightable score. Harmanpreet played a captaincy inning of 56 runs on 27 balls in this match.
Australia did not have a good start in the run chase. In the very first over, Georgia Wall was out after scoring 4 runs on the ball of Renuka Thakur. After this there was a 50-run partnership between Phoebe Lichfield and Beth Mooney. Lichfield played a slow innings of 24 runs on 25 balls. But after his dismissal, Elise Perry, who came to bat, almost ensured the team’s victory by scoring 56 runs on 38 balls. Ashley Gardner also supported him fully. She returned unbeaten after scoring 53 runs on 29 balls. For India, Shri Charni took maximum two wickets.
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