India Women book semi-final berth in T20 World Cup with win over Ireland

The Girls in Blue received the toss and batted first within the sport. They posted 155 for six as vice-captain Smriti Mandhana, who was dropped 4 instances, scored a career-best 87 off 56 balls. The southpaw’s innings featured 9 fours and three sixes. Shafali Verma’s 23 was the following finest rating. Jemimah Rodrigues chipped in with a useful 19 off 12 on the dying.

For Eire, skipper Laura Delany picked up 3 for 33 and Orla Prendergast 2 for 22. Chasing 156, Eire misplaced Amy Hunter for one off the primary ball, whereas Prendergast was cleaned up by Renuka Thakur Singh for a duck. Gaby Lewis was not out on 32 off 25 and Delany on 17 when rain stopped play. The chasing facet had been 54/2, 5 runs in need of the DLS par rating

Talking after India Girls’s win, skipper Harmanpreet Kaur mentioned, “It was sport for us. Smriti obtained runs, which was crucial. At any time when she’s giving us that begin, we’re all the time get good totals. I simply needed to go there and spend a while within the center.”

On reaching the semis, Kaur added, “It means loads, we’re working so onerous for therefore a few years and we all the time wish to do nicely. Hope we’ll give our 100%. We all the time take pleasure in our match in opposition to them (Australia). Will probably be a do or die for each the groups. We simply wish to go and play free cricket.”

Participant of the Match Mandhana described the innings as one of many hardest she has performed. She defined, “Considered one of hardest innings I might have performed by way of the tempo at what they had been bowling. We had mentioned that we weren’t going to get as a lot tempo. With the wind, it obtained worse than we thought. Actual onerous work for the primary 30 balls, I believed I had forgotten how you can bat. In a while, I informed myself to get into higher positions to hit.”

–By A Cricket Correspondent