Tags: Girls’s T20 World Cup 2023,
India Girls,
Australia Girls,
Harmanpreet Kaur Bhullar
Printed on: Feb 24, 2023
India Girls’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur rued her unfortunate run-out and the group’s abysmal fielding effort after the Girls in Blue went right down to Australia by 5 runs within the Girls’s T20 World Cup 2023 semi-final on Thursday, February 23.
Batting first after profitable the toss, Australia Girls posted a formidable 172/4 of their 20 overs. Beth Mooney top-scored with 54 off 37 balls, whereas skipper Meg Lanning contributed 49 not out off 34 deliveries. Ashleigh Gardner got here in and hammered 31 off solely 18 balls because the Aussies ended their innings on a excessive.
Within the chase, India Girls misplaced Shafali Verma (9), Smriti Mandhana (2) and Yastika Bhatia (4) cheaply. A fourth-wicket stand of 69 between captain Harmanpreet (52 off 34) and Rodrigues (43 off 24) introduced the semi-final again to life.
Neither batter might, nonetheless, take the group previous the end line. Rodrigues was caught behind as her tried ramp off Darcie Brown went awry. Harmanpreet was then run-out in weird trend as her bat obtained struck within the floor as she got here again for a second run. Following their skipper’s run-out, India Girls’s innings misplaced momentum as they have been held to 167/8.
Talking on the post-match presentation after India misplaced one more closing, skipper Harmanpreet lamented, “Cannot be unluckier than this, to get that momentum again when me and Jemi have been batting. And to lose after that, we did not anticipate this right this moment. The best way I obtained run out, cannot be unluckier than that.”
Sharing her views on India’s efficiency, the dejected chief commented, “Placing within the effort was extra necessary. We mentioned about preventing until the final ball. The outcome did not go our means, however I’m proud of the way in which we performed on this event. We all know we have now batting line up even when we lose early wickets.”
Regardless of the loss, Harmanpreet praised Rodrigues for taking the assault to Australia with an excellent knock. She stated, “Want to present credit score to Jemi for the way in which she batted right this moment. She obtained us the momentum we have been in search of. Completely happy to see such performances. Completely happy to see them play their pure recreation. Although we did not play to our strengths, we reached the semis.”
India put down a few easy catches within the subject and have been sloppy total. Harmanpreet added the missed probabilities got here again to hang-out them. She concluded, “We gave these straightforward catches away. Received to take these whenever you need to win. We misfielded. We are able to solely be taught from these classes and never repeat the errors.”
–By A Cricket Correspondent
