Vadodara Vadodara: West Indies captain Hayley Matthews on Sunday reflected on the crushing defeat to India Women in the first ODI of the series and said they have to improve in the coming days. Smriti Mandhana's aggressive play and Renuka Thakur Singh's five-wicket haul helped India Women register a massive 211-run win over West Indies Women in the first ODI of the series at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara on Sunday. The big win on Tuesday helped the Women in Blue take an early lead in the ODI series. Speaking at the post-match presentation, Hayley Matthews said that this was not the cricket they wanted to play in the game.
He admitted that his team could not perform consistently well on the ball and field. “Today we probably weren't quite right – in all three aspects of the game. It wasn't the kind of cricket we want to play and we have to improve going forward. Just have to go back to the training part and see what we can do.” We have to show more diligence in that, we have not been able to perform consistently with the ball, but we should try to avoid it as much as possible. we them a time Can be restricted to 270-280, and they don't get very far,” Mathews said as quoted by ESPNcricinfo.
Reviewing the match, West Indies won the toss and decided to field first against India.
For India, Smriti Mandhana (91 runs on 102 balls, 13 fours) and Prateek Raval (40 runs on 69 balls, 4 fours) opened the scoring and made a partnership of 110 runs, which helped the hosts gain confidence in the innings. .
India's middle order was full of confidence. Richa Ghosh (26 runs on 13 balls, 4 fours and 1 six), Jemimah Rodrigues (31 runs on 19 balls, 3 fours and 1 six) and Deepti Sharma (14* runs on 12 balls, 1 four) performed brilliantly at the crease. And took the Indian women's team to 314/9 in the first innings.
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