Pratika Rawal: Gave Team India a one-sided victory on the basis of her innings of 89 runs.
INDW vs IREW 1st ODI Match Report: The three-match ODI series between the Indian women’s cricket team and the Ireland team started with the first match played on the ground of Rajkot, in which the complete dominance of the bowlers and batsmen of Team India was seen in this match. Ireland team captain Gabby Lewis had decided to bat first after winning the toss on this pitch suitable for batting, in which the batsmen from her side could not perform at all as expected and the team lost by 7 wickets in 50 overs. Scored 237 runs on loss. After this, the Indian women’s team, which came to chase the target, saw a brilliant half-century innings from the bat of 24-year-old opening batsman Pratika Rawal, on the basis of which Team India achieved this target in just 34.3 overs.
Pratika’s innings made the match completely one-sided
In this match, to chase the target of 238 runs on behalf of Team India, 24 year old young player Pratika Rawal came in the opening along with Smriti Mandhana, in which a quick partnership of 70 runs was seen between the two for the first wicket. Captain Mandhana returned to the pavilion after playing an inning of 41 runs in 29 balls in this match. After this, Harleen Deol, who came to bat, managed to score only 20 runs while Jemima also lost her wicket after scoring only 9 runs. From here, Pratika got the support of Tejal Hasbanis, in which a partnership of 116 runs was seen in 84 balls for the fourth wicket. Pratika missed her century by just 11 runs in this match in which she faced 96 balls and played an inning of 89 runs which included 10 fours and one six. Whereas Tejal Hassabnis played an unbeaten inning of 53 runs in 46 balls.
Only Captain Lewis could show amazing performance from Ireland’s side.
If we talk about the batting performance of the Ireland team in this match, then only their captain Gabby Lewis was amazing, who played an innings of 92 runs facing 129 balls. Apart from this, Lia Paul scored 59 runs. In this match, spinner Priya Mishra took maximum 2 wickets in bowling for Team India. The second match of this ODI series will now be played between the two teams on January 12 at the same ground in Rajkot.
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