The star batter Smriti Mandhana scored her first international century since March 2022 to help India post a challenging total of 265 and then the debutant Asha Sobhana bagged four wickets to bowl out South Africa to 122.
After losing early wickets, the star batter Smriti Mandhana registered a brilliant century and Deepti Sharma added crucial runs to help India post a challenging total of 265/8 while batting first in the first ODI match against South Africa.
India suffered an early collapse in the first ODI match against South Africa but the star batter Smriti Mandhana and the ace spin all-rounder Deepti Sharma provided a brilliant 81-run stand for the sixth wicket to keep the game balanced.
Laura Wolvaardt-led South Africa women's cricket team will begin their India tour with three ODIs in Bengaluru before a one-off Test in Chennai followed by three T20Is to get prepared for the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2024.
Indian women's cricket team is scheduled to play one Test and six white-ball format games against South Africa in Bengaluru and Chennai starting on June 16. Top order batter Priya Punia, who last played international cricket in July 2023, is included to ODI side.
IND-W vs BAN-W 5th T20I: Dayalan Hemalatha top-scored with 37 off 28 and the young wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh smashed 28* off just 17 balls to help India women post a 156 total while batting first against Bangladesh in Sylhet.
India have been the dominant side throughout the course of the series. Radha Yadav is the leading wicket-taker of the series. The left-arm orthodox spinner has bagged seven wickets at an average of 10.28 in four innings during the series.
Asha Sobhana, on Monday, became the oldest debutant for India in Women's cricket making her T20I debut at the age of 33. It was a decent debut for her at the highest level as she returned with figures of 2/18 in three overs as India won the rain-affected clash.
Harmanpreet Kaur leads India in all the three formats of the International cricket. Harmanpreet has achieved a pretty rare milestone for India during the team's game against Bangladesh at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium.
India women are currently in Bangladesh for a five-match T20I series. The Harmanpreet Kaur-led side has already gained an unassailable lead (3-0) in the five-match series with two games to be played.
Bangladesh women are coming into the five-match T20I series against India on the back of a whitewash at home at the hands of Australia. Bangladesh were comprehensively beaten in the three-match ODI and the three-match T20I series.
BD-W vs IN-W Dream11 Prediction: Indian women's cricket team returns to international cricket after almost three months as they take on neighbours Bangladesh women in the 1st T20I game at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium.
India have an impressive head-to-head record against Bangladesh women. The Women in Blue have played 17 games against the Bangla Tigresses and won 14.
The Agra-born spin all-rounder took 19 wickets and scored 225 runs in December 2023 to win the ICC's monthly player award and was also honoured with the BCC's Women's Cricketer of the Year 2023 award last week.
Young pacer from West Bengal Titas Sadhu bowled her best T20I spell by taking four wickets and then fifties from openers Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana proved enough to help India chase down 141 runs at Dr Dy Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai.
“There have been a lot of improvements. Earlier, whenever we would play against Australia the games never used to go that close. This is one positive (from the last match) that we are able to take it till the end,” Deepti said ahead of 3rd ODI at Wankhede Stadium on January 1, 2024.
Australia women continued their unbeaten ODI record against India with a thrilling win in the second match to seal the three-match series at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium and will be looking to kick off the year 2024 with a win on Tuesday, January 2.
Smriti Mandhana was unwell and hence didn't feature in the first ODI against Australia at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday, December 28.
Southpaw Phoebe Litchfield was awarded the Player of the Match (POTM) for playing a match-winning knock of 78 runs off 89 balls at a strike rate of 87.64. Her knock included eight fours and a maximum.
"Full credit to the Indian team, they just put too many runs on us. If we would have batted the first full day, we could have been in the game. Winning the toss and not putting the runs on the board and then leaking too many runs in the afternoon," Alyssa Healy said.
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