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In the Women's Asia Cup 2024 match versus Nepal, India played a complete all-around game.

byNirvaan Kelkar

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Published - 24 Jul 2024, 11:22 IST
Updated - 24 Jul 2024, 11:41 IST

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In the Women’s Asia Cup 2024, India won the toss for the first time in their third and final league-stage match, match 10.

Their early decision to bat first paid off, as they scored 10 runs or more in four of the six powerplay overs. Dayalan Hemalatha scored at a rate lower than run-a-ball, although Shafali Verma was the more aggressive player.

The Indian team easily passed the 100-run mark by the eleventh over, demonstrating the benefit of stand-in captain Smriti Mandhana’s decision to drop herself in the batting order and give other players a chance. The opening partnership was eventually broken on the last delivery of the 14th over, at 122, but the damage was already done.

Verma looked on course for his first T20I century, but on the third delivery of the sixteenth over, he attempted an exaggerated swing and was caught. That dismissal gained her second wicket of the evening for left-arm orthodox Sita Rana Magar, who was the most impressive player for the Nepalese team. By the end of their innings, her side had amassed a massive score of 178/3 thanks to a quick unbeaten 28* from Jemimah Rodrigues’ 15 deliveries.

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The Nepalese failed to gather momentum in the run-chase and could not capitalise on their opportunity, losing a few wickets in the powerplay with only 31 runs scored. Their problems were made worse by the loss of Rana Magar, as the Nepalese team collapsed to 52/4 in the eleventh over, with the Indians having scored almost twice as much in the opening half of the innings.

India continued to take wickets at regular intervals, with Tanuja Kanwar bowling a maiden over and Deepti Sharma, who is currently leading the tournament in wicket-taking, bowling a double-wicket over. The Nepalese team’s destiny was ultimately decided by this sequence of events, as they could only muster 96 runs in 20 overs at a cost of nine wickets. The only bowlers to give up runs at a rate higher than seven runs per over were Arundhati Reddy and Sajeevan Sajana.

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India defeated Pakistan by 82 runs to win the match and move on to the semi-finals. Pakistan was the other team in their group.

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