A clumsy batting efficiency by India led to an all-too-familiar give up in opposition to New Zealand because the Mithali Raj-led facet went down by 62 runs in its second league stage match of the ICC Ladies`s World Cup.
New Zealand, who’ve dominated the Indians all through this summer time, didn`t let something change in a well-recognized script by first scoring a wholesome 260 for 9. They then choked the `Ladies in Blue` earlier than bowling them out for under 198 in 46.4 overs.
India have now slipped to fifth amongst eight groups after this defeat whereas New Zealand, with two wins from three video games, at the moment are second behind Australia within the general standings. Puja Vastrakar`s 4 for 34 in 10 overs and Harmanpreet Kaur`s 71 off 62 balls had been two remoted performances which hardly made any affect on the bigger consequence.
Whereas Vastrakar`s four-for may nonetheless be credited for stopping New Zealand`s complete from going north of 280, Harmanpreet`s runs would possibly simply assist her regain confidence for the approaching video games. Amelia Kerr (50 and three/56 in 9 overs), one half of the well-known Kerr sisters, first laid the platform with a strong half century after which breached the defences of rival skipper Mithali Raj (31 off 56 balls) with a flighted supply. Her quick googly dismissed Richa Ghosh (0) off the successive supply to make it nearly not possible for India. In the direction of the top, she additionally snapped up Harmanpreet to make it an ideal all-round efficiency.
Seamers Lea Tahuhu (3/17 in 10 overs) and Hayley Jensen (3/30 in 6.4 overs) shared the opposite scalps. The pursuit of 261 began on a discordant be aware with Smriti Mandhana (6 off 21 balls), Yastika Bhatia (28 off 59 balls) and Deepti Sharma (5 off 13 balls) unable discover methods to rotate the strike.
Mithali`s struggles have been nicely documented and it`s not getting any higher in her final event for India. Much more baffling was coach Ramesh Powar`s technique of sending three left-handers (off form Shafali Verma was dropped) with house group skipper Sophie Devine giving the brand new ball to off-break bowler Frances Mackay (8-1-25-0), who would take it away from left-handers. The figures don`t appear distinctive however very like what Deepak Patel did for males`s group in 1992, Mackay bowled as many as 27 dot balls in these first 15 overs to choke the circulate of runs.
India haven`t discovered a solution to counter New Zealand and in previous one month, have misplaced 5 of the six WODIs in opposition to the White Ferns. The sport could possibly be divided into two units of first 20 overs the place the 2 groups batted. In case of New Zealand, the primary 20 overs yielded 117 runs for the lack of simply two wickets whereas India, of their response, painfully reached 50 for 3 of their share of 20.
The distinction was 67 and if one seems to be on the margin of victory for `White Ferns`, it gained`t be very troublesome to gauge why issues went downhill for Mithali`s group. New Zealand`s batting has 4 pillars — Suzie Bates (5), skipper Devine (35), No. 3 Kerr (50) and No. 4 Amy Satterthwaite (75) and three carried out on the day.
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