India’s yet another successful title triumph is one step closer after their expected, yet exceptional all-round display to set up a comfortable 82-run victory against Nepal to seal their semi-final berth in the ongoing 2024 Women’s Asia Cup. (More Cricket News|Highlights)
In the✤ end, India’s 178 for 3 was much more than just enough as their bowling arsenal did a great job and the target was far from Nepal’s reach despite a decent showing.
Deepti Sharma had a fantastic outing with the ball, spinning Nepal in her web, picking up three wickets for just 13 runs. On the other end, Radha Yadav played the perfect second-fiddle wiꦆth spin, taking two wickets for 12 runs.
Renuka🐷 Singh and Tanuja Kanwar bowled miserly spells, giving just 15 and 12 runs respectively, and also notched up a maiden each next to their names.
Earlier, India’s stand-in captain Smriti Mandhana, won the top and opted to have a bat on a very good looki𓃲ng Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium.
However, to everyone’s surprise, there was a𓃲n experiment promoting Dayalan Hemalatha to o🌃pen the innings with Shafali Verma. The duo took their time to assess the conditions and then started to slowly shift gears.
Verma blasted her way to a💃 career-best 81 from just 48 deliveries, while her partner Hemalatha scored 47. Jemimah Rodrigues’ 15-ball 28 helped India reach 178 after the openers were sent back with small contributions from Sanjana Sanjeev and Richa Ghosh’s three-ball🌃 unbeaten stay.
India will play their semi-final on Friday, July 26th at the same venue in Daꦬmbulla.
