Edited By: Amrit Santlani
Last Updated: February 23, 2023, 22:15 IST
Australia advanced to the final of Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 after beating India by 5 runs ( ICC Twitter)
Harmanpreet Kaur’s valiant effort went in vain as India suffered a 5-run defeat against Australia in the semifinal of T20 World Cup
Harmanpreet Kaur played a captain’s knock as she led India ever so close to reaching the final of the T20 Women’s World Cup, although the Women in Blue fell to a 5-run defeat against defending champions Australia.
Harmanpreet scored 52 runs, and Jemimah Rodrigues added 43 runs to the cause, however, the slack fielding effort from India came back to haunt them as they came agonisingly close to making it to their second successive T20 World Cup final.
Australia had scored 172/4 in their respective 20 overs, riding on Beth Mooney’s 54-run inning, while skipper Meg Lanning also returned unbeaten having smashed 49 runs.
In reply, the Indian side could only manage 167 runs before falling short by a whisker.
There was a time in the match when the pair of Harmanpreet and Jemimah turned the tide and almost got India back in the contest. While Rodrigues was unlucky to give away a leading edge to Healy, the Indian skipper’s run-out proved to be the turning point in the match.
Richa Ghosh also fell cheaply and although Deepti Sharma returned not out having scored 20 runs she couldn’t lead her side over the line with batters on the end falling back to back.
Earlier, India had lost both openers Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana cheaply in a tricky chase of 173.
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