Team India ended 5 years of drought, created a record by winning the series against WI
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Team India finally left behind its poor form and tasted victory. After facing a clean sweep on the Australia tour, the Indian women’s cricket team faced West Indies at home. Team India, which started the series with a win, lost in the second match. After this, in the third and decisive match, host team India defeated West Indies with the help of Smriti Mandhana and Richa Ghosh and captured the series 2-1. With this, Team India achieved what the team and its fans were dreaming of for the last 5 years. Actually, this victory of Team India has come after a long time of 5 years. After the year 2019, Team India has been successful in winning any bilateral T20I series at home. Earlier, the Indian women’s team had won the T20I on home soil in October 2019.
Mandhana and Richa played brilliant innings
In this third match of the T20I series, India’s batsman Richa Ghosh (54) and opener Smriti Mandhana (77) played amazing innings. Richa Ghosh equaled the world record for the fastest half-century in 18 balls in women’s T20 international cricket, while Mandhana scored the highest 50+ score in the 20 over format by scoring her third consecutive half-century in the series. In this way, Smriti became the most successful batsman in the T20 international format this year by scoring her eighth half-century of the year. He has 763 runs in his name in 23 T20 Internationals this year. Smriti left behind Sri Lankan captain Chamari Atapattu in the list of highest run scorers.
This was the condition of the match
Batting first, India scored a huge score of 217 runs for four wickets in 20 overs, in response to which the West Indies team lost wickets at regular intervals and the team could only score 157 runs for nine wickets. In this way, Team India won the match by 60 runs and won the series 2-1. Richa Ghosh was named Player of the Match and Smriti Mandhana was named Player of the Series for her stormy half-century.
