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Australia Wins, India's Chances Uncertain
Australia Wins, India's Chances Uncertain
India suffered a collapse of 6 for 31 which left them nine runs short in the end.
India lost to Australia in a close cricket match. This means India might not play in the semifinals. Harmanpreet Kaur tried hard to win, but India lost in the last few balls. India now needs Pakistan to win against New Zealand. Australia will play in the semifinals again. Harmanpreet Kaur, the captain of the Indian cricket team, scored 54 runs without getting out. She almost won the match against Australia, but India lost by 9 runs. In the last part of the game, many Indian players were out. India now needs Pakistan to win their next match against New Zealand. If Pakistan wins, India can still play in the semifinals of the World Cup. Australia has already qualified for the semifinals.
Harmanpreet Kaur will talk about the match with her team. She will talk about the time between overs 8 and 13. India scored only 25 runs in these overs. Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma tried to score slowly to rebuild the innings. This meant India needed to score quickly later in the match. India scored 99 runs after 15 overs, which was almost the same as Australia's score. But Australia has many good hitters, while India relies mostly on Harmanpreet Kaur.
Harmanpreet Kaur started scoring quickly after the 15th over. She scored a half-century in 44 balls. She hit two fours in the 18th over and one four in the 19th over. India needed to score 14 runs in the last over. But Harmanpreet Kaur was not facing the last ball of the over. Australia won the match by 9 runs. India lost to Australia in the final and semifinals of the last two World Cups. India had to chase runs because Australia won the toss. Harmanpreet Kaur had to replace Asha Sobhana, who was injured. Radha Yadav caught Beth Mooney in the third over. Renuka Thakur bowled Georgia Wareham out. The decision was close, but Australia didn't review it.
McGrath and Grace Harris were drawn together by the double strike. The skipper of Australia got things started against the healthy-again Pooja Vastrakar with a tuck through fine leg for four. India managed to restrict Australia to a PowerPlay total of 37 for 2, giving up just three boundaries to the batsmen, thanks to Renuka's excellent three-over stint.
Still, McGrath and Harris gradually changed gears as their collaboration grew. In the next four overs, there were twenty-eight runs scored, with both batsmen hitting a boundary in Vastrakar's second over. The more fluid of the two batters, McGrath, was relieved when Harmanpreet grounded out a simple opportunity at first base. But, no harm came as two balls later in the same over, Radha had McGrath stumped for
Harris struck two boundaries from Arundhati Reddy in the next over, showing some rhythm. However, no sooner had she raised her strike rate to 100 than she was removed for a 41-ball 40 when Deepti Sharma was pulled straight to mid-wicket. After 15 overs, Australia was at 101 for 5 after losing Ash Gardner in the next over as well. Australia was able to continue because of their depth in the lineup, even if it might have forced another team to choose more cautious approaches in order to bat out the entire quota of overs.
Ellyse Perry, a veteran all-rounder, gave the innings new life by first driving Shreyanka Patil for four runs and then hitting the overcompensated full ball over mid-wicket for a six. The power was effectively countered by Phoebe Litchfield.
India was up against it and needed a quick start because no team had managed to score even 100 against this Australian attack. At the conclusion of the second over, Shafali Verma went about supplying exactly that, sweeping Gardner for four. In the third over, the youthful opener faced Megan Schutt and hit a four and a six by playing pick-up shots to full deliveries. But Verma's time at the crease was short-lived as Gardner delivered a full delivery that gave her no leverage to perform her slog sweep. After her stroke went straight down Long-on's throat, she was out for 20 off 13 balls.
In the PowerPlay, Jemimah Rodrigues hit two beautiful lofted strokes off Annabel as India kept up the pressure. But in the sixth over, they suffered another blow when Sophie Molineux's first ball trapped Smriti Mandhana's leg before wicket. After the seventh over, Rodrigues' innings ended with a pull shot off Schutt that went straight down the midwicket's neck, leaving India at 48 for 3.
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