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Printed on: Feb 22, 2023
India Ladies confirmed their berth within the semi-final of the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2023 with a five-run (DLS Methodology) win over Eire Ladies in a Group B match at St George’s Park in Gqeberha on Monday, February 20. India will possibly face Group A table-toppers Australia within the first semi-final on Thursday, February 23.
The Ladies in Blue gained the toss and batted first within the recreation. They posted 155 for six as vice-captain Smriti Mandhana, who was dropped 4 occasions, scored a career-best 87 off 56 balls. The southpaw’s innings featured 9 fours and three sixes. Shafali Verma’s 23 was the subsequent greatest rating. Jemimah Rodrigues chipped in with a useful 19 off 12 on the dying.
For Eire, skipper Laura Delany picked up 3 for 33 and Orla Prendergast 2 for 22. Chasing 156, Eire misplaced Amy Hunter for one off the primary ball, whereas Prendergast was cleaned up by Renuka Thakur Singh for a duck. Gaby Lewis was not out on 32 off 25 and Delany on 17 when rain stopped play. The chasing facet had been 54/2, 5 runs wanting the DLS par rating
Talking after India Ladies’s win, skipper Harmanpreet Kaur mentioned, “It was a very good recreation for us. Smriti received runs, which was crucial. At any time when she’s giving us that begin, we’re at all times get good totals. I simply needed to go there and spend a while within the center.”
On reaching the semis, Kaur added, “It means rather a lot, we’re working so laborious for thus a few years and we at all times need to do properly. Hope we’ll give our 100%. We at all times take pleasure in our match in opposition to them (Australia). Will probably be a do or die for each the groups. We simply need to go and play free cricket.”
Participant of the Match Mandhana described the innings as one of many hardest she has performed. She defined, “One in every of hardest innings I might have performed by way of the tempo at what they had been bowling. We had mentioned that we weren’t going to get as a lot tempo. With the wind, it received worse than we thought. Actual laborious work for the primary 30 balls, I believed I had forgotten methods to bat. Afterward, I instructed myself to get into higher positions to hit.”
–By A Cricket Correspondent
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