IND vs SA / Indian women's team won the match against Africa as well as the series

Indian women's team has defeated South Africa women's team by 4 runs. With the win in this match, the Indian team has won the three-match series. India won the first ODI by 143 runs. In the second ODI match, the batsmen performed brilliantly for the Indian women's team. In this match, South Africa captain Laura Wolvaard won the toss and decided to bowl first. The Indian team gave South Africa a target of 326 runs

Vikrant Shekhawat : Jun 19, 2024, 10:39 PM

IND vs SA: Indian women's team has defeated South Africa women's team by 4 runs. With the win in this match, the Indian team has won the three-match series. India won the first ODI by 143 runs. In the second ODI match, the batsmen performed brilliantly for the Indian women's team. In this match, South Africa captain Laura Wolvaard won the toss and decided to bowl first. The Indian team gave South Africa a target of 326 runs to win, in response to which the African women's team could score only 321 runs.

Win in the last over

In the match, the batsmen of both South Africa and India scored a lot of runs. Till the last over, the victory of any team did not seem certain. But in the end, the Indian team won. In the last over, South Africa needed 11 runs to win. Then Pooja Vastrakar took over the responsibility of bowling for India. She gave only 6 runs in this over by taking two wickets and made Team India win the match.

This happened for the first time in a women's ODI match

Laura Wolvaardt and Marizanne Kapp scored centuries for South Africa. Laura scored 135 runs in 135 balls and remained unbeaten till the end. Marizanne scored 114 runs in 94 balls. Because of these players, South Africa came close to the target, but could not achieve it. This has happened for the first time. When a total of four centuries were scored in a women's ODI match. In the match, Laura Wolvaardt and Marizanne Kapp scored centuries for South Africa, while Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur scored centuries for India. This had never happened before. When four women players scored centuries in an ODI match.

Two batsmen scored centuries for India

Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur performed brilliantly in the match for the Indian team. Both these players scored excellent centuries. Mandhana played an innings of 136 runs in 120 balls. Captain Harmanpreet scored 103 runs. They scored the fastest century in ODI for India. South African bowlers could not stand in front of these two players. The Indian team scored 325 runs while batting first. The innings of Harmanpreet and Smriti laid the foundation for the victory of the Indian team.

India clinch a last-ball thriller 🤩

They take an unassailable 2-0 lead against South Africa 👏#INDvSA | 🔗: https://t.co/HWxjkYg4wE pic.twitter.com/QEfyT46HuT
— ICC (@ICC) June 19, 2024