Raipur. The Indian Women's Cricket Team has defeated Zimbabwe by a huge margin of 92 runs in the third and final T20 match played at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Raipur. With this spectacular victory, Team India has made a spectacular clean sweep by capturing the three-match T20 series 3-0.
The Indian team, which came to bat first after winning the toss, had a fast start. Openers Shafali Verma and Anushka Sharma gave a fast start to the team. Anushka played an inning of 28 runs in 20 balls, while Shefali Verma played a stormy inning of 69 runs in just 37 balls, which included 6 fours and 5 sixes.
The brilliant partnership of 84 runs between Shefali and Harmanpreet Kaur gave strong momentum to the innings. After this, former captain Harmanpreet Kaur rained fours and sixes on the field. Harmanpreet played an explosive inning of 91 unbeaten runs in just 41 balls, which included 10 brilliant fours and 5 skyscraper sixes.
On the basis of his unbeaten innings, he took India to a huge score of 216 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. For Zimbabwe, Beloved Bija took maximum 3 wickets, but she failed to stop the Indian batsmen.
Zimbabwe team was limited to 124 runs
Zimbabwe, which set out to chase the mountain-like target of 217 runs, had a very bad start and the team kept losing wickets at regular intervals. For Zimbabwe, Sharne Myers struggled and scored 60 runs in 49 balls, while Beloved Bija contributed 44 runs. Apart from these, no other batsman of the team could stand against the Indian bowlers. In the stipulated 20 overs, Zimbabwe team could score only 124 runs at the loss of 7 wickets. Indian bowlers demonstrated strong bowling.
Nandini Sharma bowled brilliantly and took 3 important wickets giving only 18 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, Kranti Gaur, Arundhati Reddy, Deepti Sharma and Nikki Prasad got 1 success each. In this way, the Indian team ended the series brilliantly by winning the match by 92 runs.