IND vs NZ Women 3rd ODI, Smriti Mandhana Century: The Indian women’s cricket team suffered a heavy defeat at home to the New Zealand women’s team in the ODI series. The final match of the three-match series takes place at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday (October 29).
In this match, India achieved a brilliant victory by 6 wickets thanks to Smriti Mandhana’s century goal. At this point, we won the series 2-1. India won the first game of the series by 59 runs. New Zealand won the second ODI by 76 runs.
Mandana creates a century of history
New Zealand’s target for this match is 233 points. In reply, India won the match by 44.2 overs after losing 4 wickets. Mandana created history by scoring 100 runs off 122 balls in the opener. Mandana has now become India’s female cricketer with the highest score of 8 ODI centuries.
In this matter, Mandana has surpassed former captain Mithali Raj, who scored seven centuries in 232 ODI matches. Mandana achieved this feat in the 88th match. Mandana hit 10 fours in the innings.
Deepti and Priya performed well in bowling match
Apart from Mandhana, captain Harmanpreet Kaur also hit a half-century in the match. He scored an unbeaten innings of 70 runs off 68 balls. While wicketkeeper-batsman Yastika Bhatia scored 35 runs off 49 balls. Hannah Rowe took the most 2 wickets for New Zealand. Captain Sophie Devine and Fran Jonas took 1 wicket each.
Earlier, New Zealand had lost 5 wickets for 88 runs. After that, Brooke Halliday scored 86 points off 96 balls to lead the team to a high score of 232 points. In addition, Georgia Plimmer scored 39 points, Isabella Gage scored 25 points, and Lee Tahuhu scored 24 points. For India, Deepti Sharma took the maximum 3 wickets and Priya Mishra took the maximum 2 wickets.
India-New Zealand Round 11
Indian Women’s Team: Shefali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Yastika Bhatia (wicketkeeper), Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Jemimah Rodrigues, Tejal Hassabnis, Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Renuka Singh, Saima Thakor and Priya Mishra.
New Zealand Women’s Team: Suzy Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Lauren Tang, Sophie Devine (centre), Brooke Halliday, Maddie Green, Isabella Gage (week), Hannah · Rowe, Lee Tahuhu, Eden Carson and Fran Jonas.
