Shefali Verma scored 20 runs in T20 against England (Photo -Gettyimages)
Indian women’s team opener Shefali Verma made a comeback in the national team after 8 months. Shefali Verma’s performance has always been very good in international cricket, but for some time it has failed to play big innings continuously. This is the reason that he did not get a place in Team India after the ODI series played against New Zealand in November 2024. However, he has returned to the T20 series being played against England. Shefali Verma was expected to have a big innings in the first T20 match played in Nottingham but disappointed her fans. Shefali scored only 20 runs in this match but the speed of his innings was also very slow.
Shefali Verma’s poor return
In this match, Shefali Verma hit three fours during his innings. Shefali Verma wanted to play a big shot off M -Arlot’s ball, but the ball did not get well with his bat and he gave his catch to Sophie Ekleston. Sophie also completed the catch and gave England a significant success. Shefali Verma and Smriti Mandhana, who is captaining the India team in this match, added 77 runs for the first wicket.
Shefali Verma helped the team to get a good start, but she could not play as expected. Shefali, who made her mark due to aggressive batting, played a slow innings in the style of Test match here and spent 22 balls for her 20 runs. After such a beginning, now Shefali will expect that he can perform well in the remaining four matches. Shefali has so far scored 2065 runs in T20 cricket at an average of 25.49 in 86 matches and a strike rate of 128.58. He has 10 half -centuries in his name and the Indian player has the highest personal score of 81 runs.
Smriti Mandhana scored a century
Batting first against England, Team India scored 210 runs losing 5 wickets in 20 overs. Veteran opener Smriti Mandhana batted aggressively from the team, playing a stormy innings of 112 runs with the help of 15 fours and 3 sixes off 62 balls. This is Smriti Mandhana’s first T20 century. The Indian team scored 210 runs while batting first, in response to which the entire team of England collapsed for just 113 runs and Team India won the match by 97 runs.
