The Indian Women’s team is playing a tri-series, in which the first encounter match was against South Africa. In this match, team India, captained by Smriti Mandhana, registered a spectacular win by 27 runs.
Indian batter Amanjot Kaur made her debut in the first match against South Africa. He played a match-winning knock of 41 runs in 30 balls, and for that, she was renowned as the player of the match. Deepti Sharma, who performed all-rounder in the match.
Earlier, after losing the toss in the match, the Indian team came out to bat first, and the start of the Indian team wasn’t good. The Indian team was in trouble after losing 5 wickets for just 69 runs in 11.4 overs, but debutant Amanjot Kaur came to bat at number 7, played a rescue inning of 43 runs, and helped her team to set a respectable total of 147 runs on the board.
Apart from 23-year-old Amanjot, opener wicketkeeper Yastika Bhatia scored 35 runs off 34 balls. While Deepti Sharma scored a blistering 33 off 23 balls. After this, in response to the target of 148 runs, the South African team only scored 120 runs after losing 9 wickets and lost the match by 27 runs.
Off-spinner Deepti Sharma took 3 important wickets for 30 runs in 4 overs. Along with her, leg-spinner Devika Vaidh took 2 important wickets for 19 runs in 3 overs. The Indian women’s team has to play its next match against West Indies on 23 January. Looking at the upcoming Women’s T20 World Cup, this tri-nation series is very crucial for all the participating teams.