With focus firmly on batting, the Indian ladies’s cricket workforce shall be eyeing a 3-0 sweep of Bangladesh, when the fancied customer tackle the beleaguered hosts within the last T20 International in Mirpur on Thursday.
The Harmanpreet Kaur-led outfit gained the primary two matches with out a lot fuss and shall be trying to do an encore when it takes to the sphere within the third recreation.
However, it’s simpler mentioned than completed given India’s mediocre outing with the bat within the second match, which it scraped by means of by eight runs regardless of being stopped at 95 in its allotted 20 overs.
The host was bowled out for 87 due to some wonderful bowling by the Indians, giving them an unassailable lead within the three-match collection.
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Big-hitting opener Shafali Verma will, as soon as once more, be beneath the lens of the selectors after her twin failures within the collection.
While her 14-ball 19 ultimately turned out to be the workforce’s highest rating within the unforgettable collapse, the younger batter has one other probability to get again amongst huge runs earlier than the ODI leg of the tour beginning July 16.
Senior professional and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana too shall be eager to get going after getting dismissed for a run-a-ball 13 on Tuesday.
The Indian openers have failed to fireplace collectively within the collection thus far and shall be gunning to utilize one other alternative that awaits them on Thursday.
So is the case of Jemimah Rodrigues, who additionally couldn’t get going and struggled quite a bit within the center whereas consuming as many as 21 balls for her eight runs.
Out for a first-ball duck two days after her match-winning knock within the collection opener, skipper Harmanpreet wouldn’t look to learn an excessive amount of into her failure on Tuesday and would reasonably see it as an exception.
Even because the batters endured the type of outing they want to overlook in a rush, the Indian bowlers will enter the ultimate T20I excessive on morale.
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Defending 96, the likes of Deepti Sharma, Minnu Mani and Shafali delivered with the ball to bundle out the opponent in precisely 20 overs, with Bangladesh skipper Nigar Sultana (38 off 55 balls) enjoying a lone hand.
As far as the house workforce is worried, there batters too would look to present a a lot better account of themselves to boost hopes of a comfort win, which seems to be unlikely in the meanwhile given the Indian workforce’s all-round energy regardless that the Bangladesh bowlers did extraordinarily effectively to limit the customer of their final outing.
Teams (from): India: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Shefali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Yastika Bhatia (wk), Harleen Deol, Devika Vaidya, Uma Chhetri (wk), Amanjot Kaur, S Meghna, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Anjali Sarwani , Monika Patel, Rashi Kanojia, Anusha Bareddi, Minnu Mani.
Bangladesh: Nigar Sultana (c/w), Shamima Sultana, Murshida Khatun, Sobhana Mostary, Shorna Akter, Ritu Moni, Nahida Akter, Fahima Khatun, Rabeya Khan, Shanjida Akter, Salma Khatun, Marufa Akter, Dilara Akter, Disha Biswas, Sultana Khatun, Shathi Rani.
Match Starts: 1:30 pm IST.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com