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Smriti Mandhana’s half-century and Richa’s innings wasted, England beat India by 11 runs in ICC T20 Women’s World Cup

South Africa. Opener Smriti Mandhana (52 runs) struck a half-century and Richa Ghosh (47 not out) scored 19 runs in the last over as India suffered an 11-run defeat to England in their ICC Women’s T20 World Cup league match here on Saturday. It was lying In this way, England continued their winning streak against India in the T20 World Cup and made the winning record 6-0. India’s medium pacer Renuka Singh produced her best bowling performance, claiming five wickets as England were restricted to 151 for seven.

Chasing this target, the Indian team could score only 140 runs for five wickets in 20 overs despite Mandhana’s 41-ball innings studded with seven fours and one six and Richa Ghosh’s unbeaten innings of 34 balls (four fours, two sixes). . Opener Shefali Verma (08), Jemimah Rodrigues (13 runs) and skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (04) lost quick wickets to leave the team at 62 for three. India had to bear the brunt of this by defeat. Mandhana and Richa shared a 43-run partnership for the fourth wicket. But after Mandhana was dismissed on the last ball of the 16th over, the score was 105 for four.

47 runs were needed in the last four overs. Then Deepti Sharma (07) was run out and Richa added 19 runs in the last over with two fours and a six but could not take the team to victory. Earlier, Renuka (5/15) rattled England by taking the first three wickets in her bag and then took two more wickets towards the end of the innings. India got off to a flying start after winning the toss, with Renuka instigating Danny Watt to touch the bat on the third ball of the innings and Richa Ghosh making no mistake in taking a catch.

Renuka continued the same rhythm and took two wickets in her next two overs to give India the upper hand. Renuka dismissed Alice Capse in the third over and then took the wicket of Sophie Dunkley in her next over, leaving England at 29 for three in 4.4 overs. After this, Nate Sciver Brunt and captain Heather Knight (28 runs) put on an aggressive batting together to fend off the opponent’s attack. Both of them strengthened England’s innings by playing a partnership of 51 runs in just 38 balls. But just when the partnership was looking dangerous, Shikha Pandey got India the crucial wicket. This was Pandey’s first wicket since October 2021, Knight caught Shefali Verma standing in the covers on her full toss ball.

Nate Sciver added 50 runs in 42 balls but in an attempt to reverse sweep Deepti Sharma’s ball, Smriti Mandhana was caught at short third man. In the final over of England’s innings, Renuka took the wickets of Amy Jones (40 off 27 balls) and Katherine Sciver Brunt, producing her best bowling performance in T20 Internationals. India’s last league match will be against Ireland on Monday.

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