This Day That Year: Indian women’s team register an emphatic win over White Ferns

-

The Indian Women’s Cricket Team registered an emphatic win over White Ferns in a must-win match at the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 played at County Ground, Derby on 15th July.

New Zealand captain Suzie Bates won the toss and decided to field first. It was an ideal start for the White Ferns as they dismissed Indian openers Punam Raut and Smriti Mandhana cheaply. Indian captain Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur steadied the innings taking singles and hitting occasional boundaries.

The experienced duo played according to the situation and kept on ticking the scoreboard despite tight bowling by White Ferns bowling. Raj was superb with her stroke play to reach her 50th half-century off 71 balls. On the other hand, Kaur looked solid and struggled for a while.

Kaur played the White Ferns decently to reach her fifty off 82 balls. Leigh Kasperek eventually got the breakthrough dismissing Kaur. Kaur and Raj added 132 runs for the 3rd wicket. Deepti Sharma was dismissed for 0. Veda Krishna Murthy came to the crease and upped the ante with her positive strokes making life tough for White Ferns bowlers. On the other hand, Raj looked solid as ever.
Veda Krishna Murthy completed her fifty off just 34 balls and kept on hitting big strokes. Mithali Raj completed her 6th ODI century off 116 balls. Mithali Raj, Veda Krishna Murthy, and Shikha Pandey were dismissed in the final over. Raj and Krishna Murthy added 108 runs for the 5th wicket. Indian women’s team posted 265 for 7 in 50 overs.

Chasing a competitive total of 266 runs to win, White Ferns got off to the worst start as they lost wickets of Suzie Bates, Racheal Priest. The Indian spinners wreaked havoc among the White Ferns batting line up.

Rajeshwari Gayakwad was bought into the attack in the 12th over. In the first 3 overs, she could not pick any wickets. The left-arm spinner dismissed Amy Satterthwaite to pick her first wicket. She got wickets from Sophie Devine. Deepti Sharma and Poonam Yadav kept on taking wickets before Gayakwad got wickets of Rowe, Tahuhu, and Kasperek to bowl out White Ferns for a paltry total of 79 all out.

Gayakwad registered the best figures by an Indian bowler in Women’s World Cup. Also, it was the biggest win for the Indian team in terms of runs during World Cup history.

By the virtue of this win, Indian women’s team qualified for the semi-finals. They finished third in the points table with 5 wins and 2 losses.

For her century, Mithali Raj was awarded the player of the match.
Indian women 265 for 7 in 50 overs ( Mithali Raj 109, Veda Krishna Murthy 70, Harmanpreet Kaur, 60, Kasparek 3/45, Rowe 2/30) beat New Zealand women 79 in 25.3 overs ( Amy Satterthwaite 26, Gayakwad 5/15) by 189 runs.
India rout New Zealand, storm into semi-final of Women's World Cup ...
This Day That Year: Indian women's team defeated NZ by 189 runs in WWC 2017 to  qualify for the SF 


Location: Bangalore

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

WPL 2025 Match 1: Top 3 Performers Between RCB And GG

-
Image
  Royal Challengers Bengaluru registered a historic win over Gujarat Giants in the opening match of WPL 2025 played at Kotambi Stadium, Vadodara on 14 th February. RCB captain Smriti Mandhana won the toss and decided to field first. Ash Gardner’s explosive knock, Beth Mooney’s half-century, Deandra Dottin’s quickfire knock helped Gujarat Giants post 201 for 5 in their 20 overs. In reply, Ellyse Perry looked impressive with a half-century. Richa Ghosh played a blinder of a knock along with Kanika Ahuja’s brilliance helping the defending Champions RCB chase down this target easily by 6 wickets with 9 balls to spare. The pitch at Vadodara was a belter with top-quality performances from both sides in the opening match of the season. Here we look at the top 3 performers in the opening match of the WPL 2025 between RCB and Gujarat Giants. 1.        Ash Gardner Gujarat Giants’ newly appointed captain Ash Gardner led from the front with the bat and ball al...
Read more

Indonesia Open 2025: Satwik/Chirag Enter Quarters, Others Crash Out

-
Image
  The men’s doubles pairing of Satwik/Chirag entered the quarterfinals while other 3 Indians lost in the 2 nd round of the Super 1000 Indonesia Open played at Jakarta on 5 th June 2025. Satwik/Chirag Shetty edged past R Kjaer and Sogaard of Denmark in three games. The first game began with both pairs fighting for each point. Kjaer and Sogaard displayed great service skills. Satwik/Chirag fought back strongly to make a comeback. At the mid-game break, Danish pair led 11-10. After the break, Kjaer and Sogaard played brilliant badminton winning the first game by 21-16. The second game also began well for both pairs. Satwik/Chirag made a strong comeback whenever Kjaer and Sogaard look to take the game away. At the mid-game break, Danish pair again took a 11-10 lead. After the interval, Satwik/Chirag fought back strongly to level the scores and then won it by 21-18 to force into the decider. It was a closely fought affair in the third game as both pairs fought for each point. At...
Read more

Malaysia Open 2025 Day 3: Disappointing Outing For Indian Shuttlers

-
Image
  The Indian shuttlers had a disappointing outing as only one of them made it into the quarterfinals of the Super 1000 Malaysia Open 2025 played at Axiata Arena, Kuala Lumpur on 9 th January. HS Prannoy, women’s doubles pair of Tressa Jolly suffered narrow losses while Bansod, mixed doubles pair of Crasto/Kapila, and other pair lost in a one-sided affair. Tressa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand suffered a heartbreaking loss to Jia Ya Fan and Zhang of China in three thrilling games. The Indian pair struggled in the initial phases of the first game trailing by 3-6 before taking 7 points in succession to put the pressure back on the Chinese pair. At the mid-game interval, the Indians had an 11-7 lead. After the break, Jolly and Gopichand showed domination with smashes and drop shots keeping consistent pressure on the Chinese pair before winning the first game at 21-15. The second game began well with Jolly and Gopichand taking a decent lead in the initial phases. Ji and Zhang showed g...
Read more