India women vs SA women News
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India captain Mandhana credited the third match win to team effort.
The top scorer for South Africa was their captain Sune Luus, who scored 28 off 25 (3x4s).
In reply, Shafali and Smriti provided a solid start by scoring 96 runs for the opening wicket.
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SA women captain Sune Luus said her side played fearless cricket.
Mandhana, however, praised her batters for putting up a 150-plus score.
After losing the opening T20I by eight wickets, India were in for a chance to level the three-match T20I series as SA Women needed 19 runs from last 12 balls while chasing 159 to win.
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With Jemimah Rodrigues short of runs, India missed the flair of young Shafali Verma.
Star opener Smriti Mandhana had just one good innings to show in the five-ODI series and will need to step up.
Harleen Deol and Richa Ghosh will also look to make use of the chances that they get to show their skills in the middle order.
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India lost opener Priya Punia (18) early before India’s star batswoman of the series Punam Raut (10) and Smriti Mandhana (18) departed in successive overs.
Debutant Challuru Prathyusha (2) also failed to make a mark as India slumped to 176 for eight by the end of the 47th over.
Medium pacer Nadine de Klerk was the pick of the bowlers for South Africa with figures of three for 35.
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Mithali Raj, who became the first Indian woman to score 10,000 international runs on Friday, steadied the ship in Raut's company as the duo stitched 77 runs for the third wicket.
Towards the end, Deepti Sharma (36 not out) and Sushma Verma (14 not out) remained unbeaten and shared 27 runs for the sixth wicket to take India close to the 250-run mark.
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Mithali departed in the next ball, flicking a Bosch delivery straight to Mignon du Preez at midwicket. She made 36 runs off 50 balls and hit five boundaries in the process.
Mithali has amassed 663 runs in 10 Test matches with a best score of 214, while she has 6938 and 2364 runs from 212 ODIs and 89 T20 Internationals respectively.
The leading run-scorer across all formats continues to be Charlotte Edwards from England with 10,273 runs in 309 games.
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Goswami’s form will be crucial to India’s chances.
Indian troika of Jemimah Rodrigues, Mandhana and Raut would be a tough challenge for the touring bowlers.
Smriti Mandhana (80 off 64 balls) and Punam Raut (62 off 89) shared an unbeaten 138-run partnership for the second wicket.
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Electing to field, the Indian pacers were rewarded for bowling a probing line as Goswami and Joshi made early breakthroughs, dismissing openers Lizelle Lee (4) and Laura Wolvaardt (9) cheaply.
The spinners then took control of the proceedings as Deepti Sharma and Gayakwad bowled in tandem.
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There were some positives, however, such as Mithali scoring a gritty half-century and pacer Jhulan Goswami showing she is still among the best in the business.
Pacer Monica Patel was handed her debut on Sunday and more caps can be handed out in the second game with the management keeping one eye on preparations for the World Cup next year.
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The BCCI has also been thinking about the women’s domestic matches and those games could start after the completion of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, which is currently taking place in six cities.
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