The Indian women’s team that went on Australia tour has won the T20 series. Team India defeated Australia by 17 runs in the third T20 match played in Adelaide. With this, Harmanpreet Kaur Brigade won the 3-match T20 series by 2-1. This is India’s second T20 series win against the host team on Australian soil.
Batting first in this match, the Indian team scored 176 runs at the loss of 6 wickets. Smriti Mandhana played an inning of 82 runs in 55 balls. Whereas Jemimah Rodrigues scored 59 runs in 46 balls. After this, the bowlers gave shocks to the Australian team at regular intervals and restricted them to the score of 159/9. As soon as the Australian team lost this match, its winning streak of 7 bilateral T20 series came to a halt.
The Indian team, which came to bat first, did not have a good start. Shefali Verma returned to the pavilion in the third over after scoring 7 runs in 6 balls. After this, Smriti and Jemimah laid the foundation of a big score by making a partnership of 121 runs for the second wicket. Smriti seemed to be easily moving towards her second century but she lost her wicket in the 17th over.
After his departure, Richa Ghosh took charge and scored 18 runs in 7 balls, taking India closer to 170. For Australia, Annabel Sutherland took 2 wickets for 34 runs in 4 overs. Apart from him, no bowler could control the Indian batsmen.
Off-spinner Shreyanka Patil gave two major blows to Australia in the form of Georgia Wall and Ellyse Perry in her first two overs, from which the host team never recovered. Providing good support to Shreyanka, Renuka Singh took the wicket of Beth Mooney in the powerplay. After this, Sri Charani dismissed Phoebe Litchfield and reduced Australia’s score to 63/4. Ashley Gardner scored 57 runs in 45 balls but she could only reduce the margin of defeat.
Shreyanka bowled lethally and took 3 wickets for 22 runs in 4 overs. Whereas Shri Charani took the same number of wickets giving away 32 runs in 4 overs. The Indian team is on a multi-format tour. Now he has to play a 3-match ODI series against Australia. After this there will be a test match, which has been hosted by Perth Stadium.
