Captain Mandhana’s century prepared the foundation of victoryImage Credit Source: PTI
After the poor start of the Indian men’s team on the tour of England, the under-19 team and now the women’s team has made a tremendous debut of their campaign. In the first match of the women’s T20 series, the Indian team defeated hosts England badly on the basis of Smriti Mandhana’s record -breaking century. In the match played in Nottingham, Team India took a 1-0 lead in the series with a memorable win of 97 runs. In this match, Mandhana, captaining the team, scored his first century in T20 International, while 20 -year -old young spinner Mr. Charani demolished England’s batting with his deadly bowling.
The 5 T20 match series started between India and England on Saturday 28 June at the Trent Bridge ground. On this ground, Team India had come out to play T20 matches for the first time, but the way the Indian players performed, it was difficult to say that they had no idea of ​​the pitch and outfield here. However, Team India was shocked before the match because captain Harmanpreet Kaur was out of this match due to not being fully fit. In such a situation, star opener Mandhana took command of the team and then wreaked havoc of his bat.
Captain Mandhana’s first T20 century
The Indian captain, along with young opener Shefali Verma, made a 77 -run explosive opening partnership. However, Shefali, who returned to the team after 8 months, could not do wonders with her bat this time and could score only 20 runs in 22 balls. But Mandhana compensated this with Harleen Deol. Both these batsmen batting at a strike rate of about 200 consecutively and added 94 runs.
During this, captain Mandhana completed his first T20 International century in just 51 balls. She became only the second Indian batsman to do so. He crushed 112 runs (15 fours, 3 sixes) in 62 balls, while Harleen rapidly crushed 43 runs (23 balls, 7 fours). However, after this, the lower order could not give some special support, but still India scored 210 runs for 5 wickets and scored the biggest T20 against England. For England, Pesar Lauren Bell took 3 wickets for 27 runs.
England surrender in front of debutant Mr. Charani
After this, the turn was for the bowlers and its star was 20 -year -old young spinner Mr. Charan, who was making his T20 debut. Left-handed spinner Charani played an important role in piling up England for just 113 runs, taking 4 wickets, including England captain Nat Sear-Brant. However, England’s collapse was started by another young bowler Amanjot Kaur, who took the wicket of Sophia Dunkli on the last ball of the first over. Then Deepti Sharma also killed the second opener Daniel Wayt-Hodes in the next over.
Even after this, England’s wicket fall continued. However, Captain Sear-Bunt (66 runs) definitely continued his attack from the other side and scored a great half-century. But in the 13th over, Charani dismissed him and ended all the expectations. Charani shocked the last 2 wickets in the same over and finished the game of England. Charani took 4 wickets for just 20 runs in 3.5 overs. In this way, England finally broke the victory in 11 consecutive T20 matches.
