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Jemima Rodrigues was adjudged Player of the Match for her century.
The Indian women’s team is currently on a tour of Sri Lanka, where it is playing ODI Tri -series with Sri Lanka and South Africa. In its fifth match, India defeated South Africa by 23 runs. With this, the Indian Women’s team has reached the final of this series. The team’s finals will be played on 11 May from Sri Lanka in Colombo.
At the RPS Stadium in Colombo, African captain Cloe Tryon won the toss and chose bowling. Batting first, India made the fifth largest total of its ODI career. The team scored 337 runs losing 9 wickets due to a century of Jemima Rodrigues. Deepti Sharma scored 93 and Smriti Mandhana scored 51 runs.
In response, South Africa was able to score 314 runs in 50 overs, despite the fifty of Women’s Cloon and Anere Durkasen. Amanjot Kaur from India took 3 and Deepti Sharma took 2 wickets. Jemima scored a century on 89 balls. He was also adjudged Player of the Match.
Rodriguez scored third fastest century
The Indian team did not start well. The team had fallen 3 wickets for a total score of 50 runs. After this, Smriti Mandhana and Jemima Rodrigues took up the responsibility of handling the team’s innings. Jemima scored a brilliant century from the team. With the help of 15 fours and a six in 101 balls, 123 runs. At the same time, Deepti Sharma scored 93 runs in 84 balls, including 10 fours and 2 sixes. He scored runs at a strike rate of around 122.
Jemima Rodrigues became the third fastest female batsman for India by scoring a century in 89 balls. Smriti Mandhana has a record of scoring the fastest century from India. He completed a 70 -ball century against Ireland this year. At the same time, Harmanpreet Kaur had done the second fastest century. He scored a century in 87 balls against South Africa in 2024.
Deepti-Mandhana also scored half-century
Apart from Jemima Rodriguez, Deepti Sharma scored 93 runs. He played a brilliant innings of 93 off 84 balls. At the same time, opener Smriti Mandhana also batted brilliantly and was dismissed for 51 runs. Mandhana shared an 88 -run partnership with Rodrigues.
Deepti and Jemima together added 122 runs for the fifth wicket. This is India’s biggest partnership for the fifth wicket in ODI cricket. Earlier, Mithali Raj and Veda Krishnamurthy added 108 runs.
Tryon-Darksen’s fifty did not work
In response to a target of 338 runs, South Africa lost their first wicket for just 7 runs. Laura Gudol was sent to the pavilion for just 7 runs by Amanjot Kaur. After this, Amanjot Kaur dismissed Tazmin Brites for 26 runs.
Middle order batter Anere Durkasen tried to handle Africa’s staggering innings. He shared a 70 -run partnership with Nondamiso Shangse and 72 runs in association with captain Cloo Triaon. Durkasen scored 81 runs on 80 balls. In this, he also hit 5 fours and 2 sixes. Amanjot bowled him and took his third wicket.
Captain Cloe Triaon showed the fight till the last time but could not win the team. He scored 67 runs on 43 balls with the help of 4 fours and 5 sixes. Nadine D Clerk scored an unbeaten 22 runs. The team needed 39 runs in the last 2 overs, when the game was stopped due to poor light. However, when the match started again, the South Africa team could score only 15 runs. Apart from Amanjot from India, Deepti Sharma took 2 wickets and Mr. Charani took one wicket each.
Amanjot Kaur took 3 and Deepti Sharma took 2 wickets.