The Indian girls’s cricket crew gave its all within the second T20I in opposition to Australia on Sunday however misplaced the match. Deepti Sharma’s all-round effort went in useless as Australia cantered to a six-wicket win in opposition to India within the second girls’s T20 to stage the three-match sequence right here on Sunday. After India’s frontline batters minimize a sorry determine squandering begins, Deepti made an important 31 to push the crew’s whole to 130/8. She then produced a advantageous spell of 4-0-22-2 to please a nearly-packed home right here on the DY Patil Stadium, however India simply didn’t have sufficient on the board to problem Australia.
With 15 wanted to win off 12 balls, Phoebe Litchfield (18 not out off 12 balls, 3x4s) struck two fours in first three balls of the penultimate over from Shreyanka Patil to sprint India’s hopes. Playing her 300th worldwide recreation throughout codecs, the legendary Ellyse Perry celebrated the feat with a advantageous knock of 34 not out (21 balls, 3x4s, 2x6s) and took Australia over the road with a six to win the sport.
After the match, former India males’s cricket crew star Dodda Ganesh’s submit on India captain Harmanpreet Kaur post-match feedback went viral. “Throwing a 19yo kid under the bus is not done #INDvAUS,” Ganesh, who performed 4 Tests and one ODI, wrote on X.
He was commenting on one other X submit which quotes Harmanpreet as saying: “In 19th over, if Shreyanka was on target, it would have made a huge difference for us.”
Throwing a 19yo child underneath the bus shouldn’t be finished #INDvAUS https://t.co/01JuaxJLxG
— Dodda Ganesh | (@doddaganesha) January 7, 2024
Talking concerning the matches, Australia knocked off 47 runs from the goal within the powerplay with each Beth Mooney and Alyssa Healy (26) going through no difficulties in opposition to the Indian bowlers.
But Patil took a spectacular diving catch to assist do away with Healy within the eighth over for India’s first success off Deepti.
Patil, at lengthy on, ran a couple of paces in entrance of her and put in a dive as she collected the ball.
It was Deepti once more getting the second breakthrough with Mooney (20 off 29 balls, 2x4s) being stumped within the 10th over.
The sequence decider will now be performed on Tuesday right here on the similar venue.
Earlier, with the batters failing to transform begins, India ended up with a below-par whole.
Smriti Mandhana (23), Richa Ghosh (23) and even Jemimah Rodrigues (13) couldn’t capitalise after making promising begins.
But Deepti fought until the top to push the crew’s whole so far as she might, with wickets falling steadily from the opposite finish.
Kim Garth (2/27) dealt an early blow to India trapping Shafali Verma (1) leg-before wickets and had additional success getting an on-song Rodrigues who bought off the blocks rapidly with three fours.
Having smashed nearly 10 runs per over within the powerplay throughout the first recreation, India might solely handle a mere 33/2 with Mandhana hitting a couple of engaging strokes.
The India vice-captain flicked Garth over deep sq. leg for a six and one other hit over the duvet fell in need of the boundary ropes for a 4.
However, Mandhana couldn’t management a brief ball from Annabel Sutherland within the eighth over as she pulled one straight to Ellyse Perry at deep midwicket.
India’s distress compounded with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur’s (six off 12 balls) yet one more failure with the bat.
Harmanpreet had an ideal alternative to carry India out of doldrums however the captain perished on what has been her bread and butter shot — the sweep.
Ghosh smacked an enormous six off Gardner in the identical over however she too couldn’t push on for an enormous rating.
With all eyes fixated on the wicketkeeper-batter for a much-needed push, Ghosh was unable to attach a slower supply from Georgia Wareham which struck her on the pads in entrance of the wickets.
Australia’s enchantment was declined on the sphere and even Wareham felt the ball had pitched outdoors leg, however skipper Alyssa Healy went forward with a DRS enchantment which overturned in favour of the guests.
Wareham went on to say Pooja Vastrakar (9) for her second scalp in a advantageous spell of 4-0-17-2, however this time each the bowler and the skipper have been on the identical web page for an accurate DRS name.
With PTI inputs
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