Indian bowlers forgot to bowl, bowled so many wides, South Africa defeated by 6 wickets

IND W vs SA W 1st T20: The Indian women’s cricket team is currently on a tour of South Africa. A 5-match T20 series is being played between the two teams. In the first match of the T20 series, the host team defeated India by six wickets on the basis of the brilliant batting of South African captain Laura Wolvaardt. This match was played in Durban, where the Indian bowlers performed very poorly and the carelessness of the pace attack was clearly visible.

Harmanpreet Kaur played captaincy innings

In this match, India batted first and scored 157 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs, which was very low on this pitch. Shefali Verma made a fast start and scored 34 runs in 20 balls, which included five fours and a six. At the same time, Smriti Mandhana was out after scoring 13 runs in 14 balls. Harmanpreet Kaur scored unbeaten 47 runs, while Jemimah Rodrigues played an inning of 36 runs in 29 balls. There was a partnership of 71 runs in 51 balls between the two, but the Indian batsman could not do anything special in the last five overs and could only score 33 runs.

On the other hand, fast bowlers Ayabonga Khaka and Tumi Sekukhune performed well for South Africa. Ayabonga Khaka made a total of 3 batsmen his victims. Whereas, Tumi Sekukhune took 2 wickets. Spinner Nonkululeko Mlaba was also effective and managed to achieve 1 wicket.

South Africa won on the strength of Laura Wolvaardt

In reply, South Africa easily achieved the target by scoring 158 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 19.1 overs. Captain Laura Laura Wolvaardt played an important inning of 51 runs in 39 balls, in which she played aggressively in the initial overs. He also hit three fours in one over of Deepti Sharma. Shreyanka Patil dismissed him, but by then a lot of damage had been done. After this, Anne Dirksen led the team to victory by playing an unbeaten inning of 44 runs on 34 balls.

In this match, Indian bowlers bowled a total of 14 wide balls, which proved to be very expensive. Spinners Shreyanka Patil and Sri Charani maintained good control, but pacer Arundhati Reddy looked completely scattered and the South African batsmen took full advantage of her.