Senior Women's One-Day: Haryana lost despite Shefali Verma's record innings, created chaos against Bengal; missed a double century

By News Update On Dec 23, 2024

Sports Desk: Indian women's cricket's ace player Shefali Verma is currently out of the senior team. Meanwhile, Shefali Verma played a record-breaking innings against Bengal in the Senior Women's ODI Trophy organized by BCCI. Shefali scored 197 runs facing just 115 balls against Bengal. Shefali missed the double century by just three runs.

Thanks to Shefali's captaincy innings, Haryana scored 390 runs in 50 overs. During this innings, Shefali hit 22 fours and 11 sixes. By achieving the big target, Bengal made a record of chasing the highest number of runs in the tournament. Earlier, Shefali was dropped from the Indian team for T20 and ODI against Australia. 20-year-old Shefali had a very poor performance in the home series against New Zealand, where she was able to score only 56 runs in three innings. She has been dropped by the Women's Selection Committee.

When asked about Shefali's ouster, Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur said, “I can only talk about the team, the team is here and what we can do to win this series.” It is better to ask the right person about Shefali or any other player. The 20-year-old player has played 85 T20 matches, scoring 2045 runs at an average of 25.56 and also scoring 10 half-centuries.

Super Shafali 🔥
1⃣9⃣7⃣ runs
1⃣1⃣5⃣ balls
1⃣1⃣ sixes
2⃣2⃣ fours
Watch 📽️ snippets of Haryana captain Shafali Verma's blistering knock against Bengal in Quarter Final 4 of the Senior Women's One Day Trophy 👌#SWOneday | @IDFCFIRSTBank
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— BCCI Domestic (@BCCIdomestic) December 23, 2024

Shefali earned a lot of fame in her debut. The ability to hit the ball that they have is something that no other team in women's cricket has. In such a situation, Shefali had impressed everyone in the initial days. After the debut of her international career, India won the Under-19 World Cup title under the captaincy of Shefali. He also participated in an edition of the ICC World Cup.

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Shefali got many opportunities for the Indian team but she could never present herself as a winning player. Since her ODI debut in June 2021, Shefali has scored only 644 runs in 29 innings at an average of 23.00. This is the second worst return among all those openers.