Rahul Tiwari
khelja|05-12-2024
Along with the men's team, the Indian women's team has also reached Australia tour. There is to be a 3-match ODI series between the two, the first match of which was played on Thursday 5th December. In this match held in Brisbane, Australia has given bad condition to the Indian women's team. In a 50 over match, he bowled out the entire team for just 100 runs. None of the batsmen of the team could play big innings. Megan Shut forced the Indian team to kneel with her brilliant bowling. He single-handedly broke the back of the entire batting line up.
On the Brisbane ground, captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and decided to bat first. But the pitch was looking good for batting. The weather was also clear, despite this Team India did not have a good start. India lost both its openers within 7 overs. Apart from this, the Indian team could not even score runs in front of the disciplined bowling of Australia, due to which it became difficult to reach 50 runs during the powerplay.
Opener Smriti Mandhana was out after scoring only 8 runs and Priya Punia, playing in place of Shefali Verma, was out after scoring only 3 runs. After this, Harleen Deol, who was returning to the team for about a year, also returned to the pavilion after scoring 19 runs in 34 balls. Whereas captain Harmanpreet Kaur scored 17 runs out of 31, Jemimah Rodrigues scored 23 runs out of 42.
Half of the Indian team had returned to the pavilion on the score of just 89 runs. After this, Team India lost 5 wickets in scoring 11 runs and collapsed at 100 runs. Women's ODI World Cup is to be held in India next year. Before this, this condition of Team India shows a worrying situation.
Megan Shutt bowled brilliantly for Australia. He gave 19 runs in 6.2 overs with an economy of just 3 and took 5 wickets. His precise line length forced the Indian batsmen to play wrong shots. The shut itself started giving shock to Team India. He hunted both the openers in the powerplay. Then targeted 3 lower order batsmen including Richa Ghosh.