Meg Lanning introduced Ashleigh Gardner right away instead of starting 📖with pace, knowing full well about India batters' recent struggle with spin bowling.
Shafali Verꦓma (9), who had an 'okay' outing while fielding, started we🍌ll against Gardner, but was dismissed in the subsequent over by Megan Schutt off an LBW.
India's bad start turne🍸d worse when Gardner dismisseꦯd Smriti Mandhana for 2, her fourth instance of getting the opener's scalp in T20Is, the scoreboard reading 15-2.
Jeꦑmimah Rodrigues came in and scored fours from two consecutive deliveries easing some of the pressure.
A mix-up between Rodrigues and Yastika Bhatia saw the latter get run out for 4, sounding the alarm 𝄹for the batters to come.
Harmওanpreet Kaur, who was unsure of starting the match, started her batting with a textbook cover drive for four. The two experienced players being in the middle was what India needed, as they struck the occasional boundaries while rotating the strike on good♛ balls.
Harmanpreet took on Jess Jonassen, hitting the first six of the innings 🎐over long-on.
India's total was much better in the powerplay as compared to the previous games, which saw the scoreboard read 59 runs despite♎🧸 losing three wickets after 6 overs.
The pair were now managing to score a boundary per over at lea♌st, accompanied by singles and doubles, 🦂with the required run rate being just over 8.
Harmanpreet 🌄and Rodrigues brought up their 50-run partnership after despite India losing eaไrly wickets.
Rodrigues, especially, turned it on for India, scoring 13 runs off Georgia Wareham taking the score to 93-3 after 10 overs🍰.
