Rahul Tiwari
khelja|05-12-2024
Indian women's team has gone on Australia tour for 3-match ODI series. Its first match was played in Brisbane on Thursday 5 December. In this match, Australia gave a very bad treatment to the Indian team and defeated them in just 98 balls. In this 50 over match, India batted first and got bundled out for just 100 runs. The Australian team achieved this easy target in just 16.2 overs at the loss of 5 wickets. With this, Australia has taken a 1-0 lead in the series. Megan Shutt was the best player of this match. He took 5 wickets for just 19 runs in just 6.2 overs. For this performance he was chosen Player of the Match.
After Team India was all out for 100 runs, there seemed little hope of its victory. But the bowlers tried their best. Renuka Singh Thakur and Saima Thakor started the bowling for the Indian team to defend the small target of 101 runs. In the first 5 overs, both bowled tightly and gave only 23 runs. After this the Australian batsmen started the counter attack.
Indian bowlers took advantage of this and took 3 wickets at the score of 52 runs. At the same time, till the score of 97, he destroyed half of the Australian team.
But by then it was too late. Australia had reached the threshold of victory and achieved the target in 101 balls in 16.2 overs. From India's side, Renuka took 3 wickets for 45 runs in 7 overs. Whereas Priya Mishra took 2 wickets for 11 runs in 2 overs.Captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and chose to bat first on the Brisbane ground. But the batting was a complete flop. No batsman could stand against the Australian bowlers. India lost both its openers within 7 overs. Smriti Mandhana scored only 8 runs and Priya Punia, playing in place of Shefali Verma, was out after scoring only 3 runs.
After this, Harleen Deol, who was returning to the team after almost a year, scored 19 runs in 34 balls, captain Harmanpreet Kaur scored 17 runs in 31 balls, Jemimah Rodrigues scored 23 runs in 42 balls, Deepti Sharma scored 1 run and Richa Ghosh scored 14 runs in 35 balls. Scored runs.Three players from Australia made the Indian team worse. First, 31-year-old experienced fast bowler Megan Shutt dazzled with her bowling. Then 21 year old Georgia Wall, who was debuting, showed her strength with the bat.
Shutt gave 19 runs in 6.2 overs with an economy of just 3 and took 5 wickets. His precise line length forced the Indian batsmen to play wrong shots. While chasing 101 runs, Georgia scored 46 runs in 42 balls unbeaten. Apart from him, opener Phol Lichfield scored 35 runs in 29 balls. Shutt gave 19 runs in 6.2 overs with an economy of just 3 and took 5 wickets. His precise line length forced the Indian batsmen to play wrong shots. While chasing 101 runs, Georgia scored 46 runs in 42 balls unbeaten. Apart from him, opener Phol Lichfield scored 35 runs in 29 balls.