India in WT20 WC: The journey of the Indian women’s team in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup ended with a narrow 5-run defeat against the Australia women’s team in the semi-finals. This time, before the start of the T20 World Cup, everyone expected that the women’s team is one of the strong contenders to win the cup, but after that, everyone was disappointed with the kind of performance the team showed on the field.
In this T20 World Cup, the Indian team was given a place in Group-B, in which the team made its journey with the match against Pakistan. In this match, the team got a target of 150 runs, which they achieved by losing 3 wickets and registered a resounding victory. Jemima Rodrigues scored an unbeaten 53 in this match for the Indian team, while young player Richa Ghosh played a brilliant inning of 31 not out in 20 balls.
After this, the Indian women’s team played its second match against the West Indies women’s team. In this match, Deepti Sharma’s excellent performance with the ball was seen, who took 3 wickets and the Indian team got the target of only 119 runs in 20 overs, which they achieved in 18.1 overs at the loss of 4 wickets. Richa Ghosh impressed everyone with her performance in this match as well, scoring an unbeaten 44 off 32 balls.
Defeat against England, comeback against Ireland
The Indian women’s team played its third match in this T20 World Cup against the strong England women’s team. In this match, the England team, batting first, managed to score 151 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. In bowling from India, Renuka Singh took 5 wickets in 4 overs with 15 runs in his name.
Chasing the target, the Indian women’s team kept losing wickets at regular intervals but despite this Smriti Mandhana’s 52 while Richa Ghosh’s unbeaten 47 did play an innings but it proved insufficient to save the team from an 11-run defeat. .
In Group-B, the Indian team played its last match against Ireland. Batting first in this match, Team India managed to reach the score of 155 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs with the help of Smriti Mandhana’s brilliant innings of 87 runs. When the Ireland team came down to chase the target in this match, it had scored 54 runs for 2 wickets in 8.2 overs, but at the same time the match had to be stopped due to rain. After this, according to the Duckworth-Lewis rule, the Indian women’s team was declared the winner by 5 runs in this match.
Came close to victory in the semi-finals but lost the match due to the fall of captain Harmanpreet’s wicket
Everyone expected a better performance from the Indian women’s team in the semi-final against Australia. In this important match, the Kangaroo team, batting first, made a huge score of 172 runs at the loss of 4 wickets. After this, the start of the Indian team chasing the target was also not good and the team had lost its 3 important wickets till the score of 28.
From here, captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemima Rodrigues not only started scoring runs at a fast pace, but also made the Indian team completely heavy in this match. At one time it seemed that Team India would be able to win this match, but first Jemima 43 runs and then Harmanpreet returned to the pavilion after scoring 52 runs at a crucial time, a big blow to the hopes of the Indian team’s victory. Felt and the team had to face a close defeat of 5 runs in the match.
The performance of key players in the entire tournament was like this
Talking about the performance of the important players of the Indian team in this T20 World Cup, captain Harmanpreet Kaur managed to score only 118 runs in 5 innings with an average of 23.60, in which 1 half-century innings was seen with her bat. While talking about Smriti Mandhana’s performance, she batted in 4 innings and scored 151 runs at an average of 37.75, including 2 half-century innings.
Apart from this, Jemima Rodrigues scored 129 runs in 5 innings at an average of 32.25. On the other hand, the player who impressed the most with her performance from the Indian team was wicket-keeper batsman Richa Ghosh, who scored 136 runs in 5 innings at an average of 68 and during this period her strike rate was 130.77.
If we look at the performance of Team India’s bowlers in this T20 World Cup, Renuka Singh took the most wickets in his name, who took a total of 7 wickets in 5 matches at an average of 16. Apart from this, Deepti Sharma took 6 wickets while Shikha Pandey took 3 wickets.
Indian team and players made this important record during T20 World Cup
During this T20 World Cup, Indian players also worked to make some important records, in which captain Harmanpreet Kaur became the first Indian woman cricketer to have more than 3000 T20 international runs in her name. On the other hand, Deepti Sharma became the first player among India’s male and female cricket players to complete the feat of taking 100 wickets in the international T20 format.
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