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Asia Cup 2023 overshadowed by rain, semi-finals could not happen, now India’s path to finals becomes difficult

The Women’s Emerging Asia Cup 2023 is being played between a total of eight teams, the shadow of rain is being seen in these matches. Rain dominated most of the matches of the tournament. At the same time, most of the matches of the Indian team have also been affected due to rain.
 
According to statistics, in this tournament, the Indian team and all other teams were to play 3-3 matches in the league stage. Although the Indian team could play only one match due to rain while two other matches could not be held. At the same time, the semi-final match of the tournament also got rained. It is believed that the semi-final match will now be played on Tuesday, May 20. In this match, the Indian team will take the field to make a place in the final.
 
Indian team could play only one match
Let us tell you that the first match of the women’s India-A team in the league stage was against Hong Kong. With the victory in this match, the Indian team had a great start to the tournament. In this match, India won by nine wickets. The team’s second encounter was against Nepal while the third encounter was to be against Pakistan. In both these matches, no ball was bowled due to heavy rain and both the matches were abandoned.
 
Let us tell you that India’s semi-final match was to be held on Monday i.e. June 19 with the Sri Lanka A team, in which the winning team would have made it to the final. But the rain washed away the match. The semi-finals will now be played on the reserve day, which is June 20. Let us tell that the Indian team had to play a total of four matches, out of which three matches were canceled due to rain.
 
Did amazing in the first match
Significantly, the Indian team has been able to play only one match in this tournament. But in that match, the Indian team had given a bang performance. In the first match played against Hong Kong, the Indian team won the toss and bowled first. The Hong Kong team, which came out to bat, was all out by the strong bowlers of the Indian team on a small score of just 34 runs and returned to the pavilion. In this match, Shreyanka Patil took 5 wickets in 3 overs and gave only two runs. At the same time, the target of 35 runs was achieved by the Indian team by losing one wicket in just 5.2 overs. Gongadi Trisha (19) along with Uma Chhetri (16) got the team to victory but captain Shweta Sehrawat could not do wonders and returned to the pavilion for two runs.

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