New Delhi. On the one hand, the men’s team is gearing up for a historic win in the Test format in South Africa. On the other hand, Indian women have won against Australia. The Indian women’s team beat Australia in a Test for the first time in history. In an exciting match, Team India defeated the Kangaroo team badly by 8 wickets. In this historic victory, first the bowlers destroyed the Kangaroo team and then the batsmen scored many runs for the visiting team.
In this match, Australia won the toss and decided to bat first. In the first innings, Sneh Rana showed his bowling magic and guided 4 batsmen to the pavilion. The visiting team was bowled out for just 219 runs due to the brilliant bowling. Only Talia McGrath managed to score a half-century for Australia. On the other hand, everyone from Smriti Mandhana to Pooja Vastrakar scored runs in India’s batting. Smriti Mandhana, Richa Ghosh, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma scored half-centuries from the Indian team. Deepti Sharma scored the highest 78 runs. Apart from this, Pooja Vastrakar made an important contribution with 47 runs while Shefali Verma made an important contribution with 40 runs. With the help of these innings, Team India scored 406 runs in the first innings.
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Brilliant bowling in the second innings
In the second innings too, great bowling was seen from India. This time Pooja Vastrakar showed her brilliant spin. He took the wicket. Apart from this, Sneh Rana took 3 wickets while Deepti Sharma took two wickets to take the Kangaroo team to 261 runs. This time too, Talia McGrath played a half-century innings. In reply, India easily achieved the target of 75 runs by losing only two wickets. Opener Smriti Mandhana played an innings of 38 runs.
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First published: December 24, 2023, 13:16 IST