Women’s T20 World Cup: Deepti, Richa shine as India beat West Indies by 6 wickets

NEW DELHI: India produced an overall efficiency to sign up a comfy six-wicket success over West Indies in their Group 2 match on Wednesday in Cape Town, their 2nd successive win at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. India beat arch-rivals Pakistan in their project opener. Wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh scored a match-winning 44 not out, off 32 balls, and included an important 72-run collaboration for the 4th wicket with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (33 off 42) to take India house with 11 balls to spare. As it took place: India vs West Indies Richa struck the winning runs, a 4 off Shamilia Connell in the penultimate over, as India ferreted out the below-par 119-run target in 18.1 overs with 6 wickets in hand. Previously, Deepti Sharma (3/15) led India bowlers limited the West Indies for simply 118 for 6 in their 20 overs. While doing so, the ‘Player of the Match’ Deepti likewise ended up being the very first Indian to take 100 T20I wickets. Deepti spun a web around the West Indies batters after being asked to bowl. The experienced off-spinner selected 3 West Indies wickets for India. Requiring less than run a ball, India were off to an electrical start with openers Shafali Verma (28) and Smriti Mandhana (10) taking the group overall to 31 in 4 overs on the back of 6 fours. #TeamIndia register their 2nd successive success in the #T 20WorldCup! For her affordable three-wicket haul, … https://t.co/2f2WnkT6Mm– BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) 1676478793000But India lost the momentum as sluggish bowling worked for West Indies. Mandhana missed out on off-spinner Karishma Ramharack’s (2/14) ball entirely, leading to a simple puzzling for wicketkeeper Rasha Williams. Last video game match-winner Jemimah Rodrigues (1) ended up being Hayley Matthews (1/12) initially and just victim of the day as the skipper took an excellent catch of her own bowling. After 2 low-scoring overs, Shafali attempted to up the ante just to be captured at long leg and West Indies picke
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