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Batting first, the Indian team scored 170 runs. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur played a strong half-century innings. If Team India wants to reach the semi-finals, it has to defeat Australia at any cost. Harmanpreet scored 56 runs in 27 balls and during this also scored the third fastest half-century in T20 against Australia.
Till the 18th over, the Indian team had scored only 134 runs. It seemed difficult for him to even reach 155-160, but in the last 2 overs, Indian batsmen added a total of 36 runs and set a target of 171 runs for Australia. Jemimah Rodrigues also supported captain Harmanpreet, who scored 34 runs in 28 balls. There was a valuable partnership of 64 runs between Harmanpreet and Rodrigues.
Harmanpreet’s third fastest fifty
In this match, Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur became the third fastest batsman to score a fifty against Australia in the history of women’s T20 cricket. He completed his half-century in 25 balls and hit 6 fours and 3 sixes in his innings of 56 runs. In the last over of the innings, captain Harmanpreet completed his hat-trick by hitting 3 consecutive sixes. He played this innings at a stormy strike rate of 207.
Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma had made a partnership of 66 runs for the first wicket, but both of them batted very slowly. Mandhana scored 38 runs in 37 balls, while Shefali contributed 34 runs. Jemimah Rodrigues also scored 34 runs, but was retired and left the field.
Semi-finals are at stake
South African team has defeated Bangladesh by 4 wickets in its last group match, due to which it has 8 points. The net run rate of the Indian team is much better than South Africa. In such a situation, India only has to register a win over Australia, which will get it a ticket to the semi-finals.
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