Lucknow: The Indian women's cricket team defeated South Africa by 6 wickets in the third ODI match and with this they have clean swept Africa. Let us tell you that a three-match ODI series was played between these two teams, in which the daughters of India played brilliantly in all three matches and won all the matches. In this match, South Africa won the toss and decided to bat first but their move backfired and the Indian bowlers performed brilliantly. The African team, batting first in this match, could score only 215 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 50 overs.
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After scoring consecutive centuries in the last two matches, India's opener Smriti Mandhana played a brilliant innings in the third match as well. However, she missed out on completing her century and was out after scoring 90 runs off 83 balls. During this, 11 fours came off her bat. The result of her brilliant innings was that Team India won this match in 40.4 overs with the loss of 4 wickets.
Batting first in this match, apart from captain Laura Wolvaardt, no other batsman from Africa could perform well. Wolvaardt faced 57 balls in this match and scored 61 runs with the help of 7 fours. Apart from her, no other player could perform well and this was the reason why the African team could not score well. From India's side, Deepti Sharma bowled brilliantly and took 2 wickets for 27 runs in 10 overs and for her excellent performance, she was chosen as the Player of the Match.
With the victory in the third match, India has clean swept Africa. In this series, Mandhana batted brilliantly and scored 343 runs in 3 matches with an extraordinary average of 114.33. During this, 2 centuries and a half-century came out of her bat. With this, she has made a big record in her name. Actually, Smriti has now become the batsman who has scored the most runs in any one ODI series. Earlier this record was registered in the name of Jaya Sharma, who had scored 308 runs in the same series.
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