Tri-Nation Series: Ellyse Perry's all-round performance downs India
Cricket | February 02, 2020 12:16 ISTEllyse Perry took four wickets and scored 49 runs in the chase as Australia beat India by four wickets in the tri-nation series.
Ellyse Perry took four wickets and scored 49 runs in the chase as Australia beat India by four wickets in the tri-nation series.
After securing a five-wicket victory over England, India women's team will aim to continue winning run against hosts Australia.
India women will face England in the first match of the tri-series (involving Australia) on Friday.
India women's team extended their lead to 4-0 after securing a five-run victory over West Indies in the 4th WT20I in Georgetown.
Chasing a modest target of 104 on Sunday evening, Indian eves broke little sweat as both the Indian openers, who stitched a record partnership in the first match, got the team across the line in the 11th over.
Shafali scored 73 off 49 deliveries, and outscored her opening partner Mandhana, who managed 67 off 46.
The Indian eves, who had lost the nail-biting first ODI by just one run, defended the 192-run target with quite an ease at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium on Sunday.
Chasing a revised target, the Indian bowlers produced a disciplined show and bowled their opposition for 135 in 34.3 overs to win the tournament.
Ekta, who was adjudged the Player of the Match, was the pick of the Indian bowlers as she scalped three wickets, giving away just 32 runs from her 10 overs.
India clinched the six-match series 3-1 with two games being washed out due to rain.
Off-spinner Deepti Sharma (2 for 19) and left-arm spinner Radha Yadav (3/23 in 4 overs) bowled brilliantly to restrict the Proteas women to 98 for 8. India chased down the target in 17.1 overs.
The team is currently taking part in a five-match T20 series against South Africa here. India won the first rubber while the second was washed out.
The second women's T20I in Surat between India and South Africa was washed out, after India had taken a 1-0 lead in the five-match T20I series.
The bowlers, led by player of the match Deepti Sharma (3/8), produced an impressive show to dismiss South Africa for 119 in their chase of 131.
Spinner Deepti Sharma bowled three maiden overs in her four-over quota, apart from taking three wickets.
Opening batsman Shafali got the senior-team call up after a sensational season in the domestic circuit where she scored 1923 run which includes six centuries and three fifties.
In the last five matches between the two sides, India women won three while lost one with the other game ending in no result.
An Indian women's cricketer was approached to fix matches earlier this year, and FIR has been lodged against two individuals following an inquiry from ICC.
Shafali Verma, who became one of the youngest women's cricketer to represent India, revealed that her father went against society to train her in the sport and that she is now living his dream.
Mithali will continue to lead the team in the three-match ODI series, which will follow the five T20 Internationals, where Harmanpreet Kaur will captain.
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