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India reached the semi-finals of Women's Asia Cup

Published - 24-JUL-2024 6:3 IST | Updated - 24-JUL-2024 6:3 IST

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India reached the semi-finals of Women's Asia Cup

The 7-time champion Indian team has made it to the semi-finals of the Women's Asia Cup. Team India defeated Nepal by 82 runs on Tuesday. This is India's third consecutive victory.

The Indian team won the toss and chose to bat at the Rangiri Dambulla Stadium. India scored 178 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs with the help of a century partnership between Shefali Verma and Dayalan Hemalata. In the reply innings, the entire Nepal team could score only 96 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. All the batsmen of Nepal could not even score as many runs as Shefali-Dayalan. Shefali scored 81 runs. She was selected as the Player of the Match.

Shefali Verma match winning innings

Opener Shefali Verma proved to be a match winner for the Indian team. She came out to open and scored 81 runs in 48 balls at a strike rate of 168.75. Her innings included 12 fours and a six. She made a century partnership with Dayalan Hemalatha.

Dayalan Hemalatha opening innings

The Indian team made a change in the opening pair for this match. Dayalan Hemalatha came to open the innings with Shefali. She played an innings of 47 runs on 42 balls. Hemalatha hit 5 fours and a six.

Good bowling by Deepti Sharma

Spin all-rounder Deepti Sharma took three wickets for 13 runs in her quota of 4 overs. She took the wickets of Rubina Chhetri, Kavita Joshi and wicketkeeper Kajal Shrestha.

Good performance by Radha Yadav

Radha Yadav gave just 12 runs in 3 overs and took two wickets. She dismissed captain Indu Burma and Dolly Bhatt.

Century partnership of Shefali-Dayalan

The opening partnership of Indian opener Shefali Verma and Dayalan Hemalatha proved to be the turning point of the match. Both of them scored 122 runs in 84 balls. On the basis of this partnership, the Indian team managed to score 178 runs.

Playing-11 of both the teams

India: Smriti Mandhana (captain), Shefali Verma, Dayalan Hemalatha, Jemima Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Deepti Sharma, Renuka Singh, Radha Yadav, Tanuja Kanwar, Arundhati Reddy and Sajeevan Sajana.

Nepal: Indu Burma (captain), Samjhana Khadka, Sita Rana Magar, Kabita Kunwar, Dolly Bhatt, Rubina Chhetri, Pooja Mahato, Kajal Shrestha (wicketkeeper), Kavita Joshi, Sabnam Rai and Bindu Rawal.

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