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Asia Cup 2024: IND W Beats UAE W By 78 Runs. Enters Semi-Finals

  • By Thetripurapost Desk, Rangiri Dambulla
  • Jul 21, 2024
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The Indian women's cricket team defeated UAE by 78 runs on Sunday and made it to the semi-finals of Asia Cup-2024. In this match played in Dambulla, Team India played a one-sided game and defeated UAE by 78 runs. First, the team scored 201 runs in 20 overs for the loss of five wickets on the basis of strong innings of Richa Ghosh and captain Harmanpreet Kaur. In response, the UAE team was successful in playing 20 overs but could score only 123 runs for the loss of seven wickets.

India crossed the 200 mark for the first time in T20. Richa and Harmanpreet's stormy innings took them to this level. Richa batted brilliantly. This right-handed batsman scored an unbeaten 64 runs with the help of 12 fours and a six in 29 balls. Harmanpreet Kaur played an innings of 66 runs with the help of seven fours and a six in 47 balls.

While Richa, Harmanpreet and Shefali batted well for India in batting, the bowlers made a joint contribution to the team's victory. All five bowlers took wickets. The team's experienced spinner Deepti Sharma took the maximum of two wickets. Renuka Singh, Tanuja Kanwar, Pooja Vastrakar and Radha Yadav took one wicket each. Five batsmen of UAE could not even reach double digits. Kavisha Igodoghe scored the highest 40 runs for the team. She played an unbeaten innings with the help of three fours and a six in 32 balls. Captain Isha Oja scored 38 runs in 36 balls. Apart from these two, only Khushi Sharma could reach double digits. She played an innings of 10 runs.

The UAE captain could only win the toss in this match, after which she asked India to bat first. Smriti Mandhana returned to the pavilion in the third over itself, which put pressure on Team India. However, Shefali Verma reduced this pressure by scoring runs quickly. Then Team India reached the backfoot after losing two wickets in two balls. Shefali returned to the pavilion on the last ball of the fifth over and Dylan Hemalatha returned to the pavilion on the first ball of the sixth over. Shefali scored 37 runs in 18 balls with the help of five fours and a six. Hemalatha could score only two runs.

After this, Harmanpreet and Richa took charge of the team by making a partnership. Both of them made a partnership of 75 runs in 45 balls for the fifth wicket. Harmanpreet was out on the first ball of the last over. Richa hit five consecutive fours on the last five balls to complete her half-century and also took the team past 200