Mandhana 91 and bowlers discipline put India 1-0 up versus England

ReportThe hosts were 94 for 5 and 128 for 6 prior to a late-order rally took them up towards a good rating however it wasn’t adequate Smriti Mandhana made 91 off 99 balls with 10 fours and a 6 – Getty Images India 232 for 3 (Mandhana 91, Harmanpreet 74 *, Bhatia 50) beat England 227 for 7 (Davidson-Richards 50 *, Wyatt 43, Deepti 2-33) by 7 wickets A strong and elegant knock of 91 from vice-captain Smriti Mandhana powered India to success after their bowlers limited England to 227 for 7 in the very first ODI in Hove. Almost whatever went right for India after they won the toss and selected to bowl on a sluggish pitch. They got early wickets. They kept things tight. And they were so callous they enabled just one collaboration to cross fifty runs in the whole innings. If that wasn’t enough of a center, when it was their rely on bat, 3 of the leading 4 – Mandhana, Yastika Bhatia and Harmanpreet Kaur – struck half-centuries to seal the chase with 34 balls to spare. India’s bowling was a cumulative efficiency from the quicks and spinners that left England without any sort of momentum in a stop-start innings and the conditions were such that low bounce represented 2 wickets. The hosts had actually slipped to 94 for 5 and after that 128 for 6 a
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