Dambulla: Indian girls’s cricket group has reached the semi-finals of Girls’s Asia Cup 2024. After defeating Pakistan after which UAE within the first match, India registered a simple win over Nepal of their third match. Regardless of resting the important thing gamers, India batted first and scored 178 runs for 3 wickets. Nepal’s batting struggled from the start and after enjoying 20 overs, they might rating solely 96 runs for 9 wickets. India received this match by 82 runs. With this victory of India, Nepal’s group has been eradicated from the event, whereas Pakistan has obtained a ticket to the semi-finals.
The largest innings of Shefali’s profession
India managed to achieve this rating on the premise of opener Shefali Verma’s blazing innings of 81 runs in 48 balls. This was additionally the largest innings of Shefali’s profession. Aside from hitting 12 fours and a six in her innings, Shefali gave the group an excellent begin by sharing 122 runs in 84 balls for the primary wicket with D Hemalatha. Hemalatha contributed 47 runs with the assistance of 5 fours and a six in her 42-ball innings. Within the final overs, Jemima Rodrigues performed an unbeaten innings of 28 runs with the assistance of 5 fours in 15 balls. Sita Rana Magar took two wickets and Kavita Joshi took one wicket for Nepal. The Indian group rested common captain Harmanpreet Kaur and all-rounder Pooja Vastrakar on this match.
Nepal’s batting additionally didn’t work
Whereas defending the goal, Arundhati gave India a very good begin by bowling Samjhana Khadka within the second over. She scored 7 runs. Kavita Kunwar and Sita Rana tried to indicate aggressive angle with a 4 every within the subsequent over of this bowler. Renuka despatched Kavita again to the pavilion within the fifth over whereas Radha despatched Indu again. Nepal needed to win this match in 10.2 overs to achieve the semi-finals however the group might solely rating 48 runs for the lack of three wickets in 10 overs.
Sita Rana welcomed Arundhati’s second spell within the eleventh over with a 4 however the bowler bowled her out on the following ball. Rubina hit the primary six of the innings off Deepti’s ball however was bowled out on the following ball of this off-spinner. In the identical over, Kavita Joshi was out LBW with out even opening her account.
After this, Deepti did wonderful fielding and ran out Pooja Mahato whereas Radha obtained Dolly Bhatta caught behind the wicket within the seventeenth over. Bindu tried to cut back the margin of defeat by hitting a 4 in opposition to Arundhati however she was not profitable in finishing the century of runs for the group. For India, Deepti Sharma took three wickets for 13 runs in 4 overs whereas Radha Yadav and Arundhati Reddy obtained two wickets every. Renuka Singh obtained one wicket.