Smriti Mandhana studded explosive Fifty, Team India beat West Indies by 56 runs

Smriti Mandhana INDW vs WIW T20I Match: India registered its second consecutive win in the triangular Women’s T20 series being played in South Africa. In the match played on 23 January, Team India defeated West Indies by 56 runs. Smriti Mandhana played an important role in winning the match for the Indian women’s team. He played an unbeaten inning of 74 runs while batting excellently. Batting first, Team India scored 167 runs for 2 wickets. Chasing the target, the West Indies women’s team could only manage 111 for four wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.

Mandhana studded explosive Fifty

In the match played at Buffalo Park East London, Team India won the toss and batted first. Yastika Bhatia and Smriti Mandhana, who came to start the innings, added 33 runs for the first wicket. Yastika got out after scoring 18 runs. Harleen Deol, who came to bat at number three, could not do anything special and kept on scoring 12 runs. After this, Smriti Mandhana and Captain Harmanpreet Kaur took charge. Making both these century partnerships, India reached a respectable score of 167. Smriti played an unbeaten inning of 74 runs off 51 balls while batting furiously. He hit 10 fours and a six in his innings. While Harmanpreet Kaur remained not out after scoring 56 runs off 35 balls.

Windies team scored 111 runs

Chasing the target of 168 runs for victory, the West Indies team could only manage 111 runs for four wickets in 20 overs. In front of the strong bowling of India, the batsmen of the Windies team did not work. Shikha Pandey, Rajeshwari Gaikwad and Radha Yadav bowled tight for India. In front of them, the Windies struggled to score batter runs. Together these three bowlers gave only 44 runs in 12 overs. For Team India, Deepti Sharma got 2 while Radha Yadav and Rajeshwari Gaikwad got 1-1 wickets. For the West Indies, Shaman Campbell was the top scorer by scoring 47 and Hayley Mathews 34 runs. Smriti Mandhana, who played a blistering inning of 74 runs in the match, was awarded the Player of the Match award.

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