England Women defeated India Women by 8 wickets in the 1st ODI match of the series.
The 1st match of the ODI series played yesterday between England Women and India Women at County Ground, Bristol. In which England Women defeated India Women by 8 wickets.
England Women won the toss and elect to field first, India Women first scored 201 runs after losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. India Women started not very well, Mithali Raj is the only played who played a brilliant half-century inning of 72 runs with the help of 7 boundries in 108 balls, Deepti Sharma scored 30 runs in 46 balls, Punam Raut 32 runs in 61 balls, Pooja Vastrakar 15 runs in 17 balls, Shafali Verma 15 runs in 14 balls, Smriti Mandhana 10 runs in 25 balls, apart from this, Taniya Bhatia 7 runs, Harmanpreet Kaur 1 run, Shikha Pandey remains unbeaten for 3 runs and Jhulan Goswami unbeaten for 1 run. In this way, India Women batted first after losing the toss, scored 201 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs, and set a target of 202 runs in front of England Women.
England Women bowlers performed very brilliantly, Sophie Ecclestone took 3 wickets, Katherine Brunt, and Anya Shrubsole took 2-2 wickets, and Kate Cross got 1 wicket.
England Women chasing 202 runs they achieved the target very easily by losing just 2 wickets in second last ball of 35th over and won the match by 8 wickets. England Women started the inning well, Lauren Winfield Hill and Tammy Beaumont came to start the inning, the first wicket has gone quickly just in 24 runs, Lauren Winfield Hill dismissed after scoring 16 runs in 20 balls, next batsman Heather Knight came to bat, and played a brilliant half-century partnership of 59 runs with Tammy Beaumont, the second wicket fell in 83 runs, Heather Knight dismissed after scoring 18 runs in 30 balls, followed by Natalie Sciver came to bat, handled the inning and took the match to the victory with Tammy Beaumont, Natalie Sciver played a brilliant unbeaten half-century inning of 74 runs with the help of 1 six and 10 boundries in 74 balls, and Tammy Beaumont also played a brilliant unbeaten half-century inning of 87 runs with the help of 1 six and 12 boundries in 87 balls. In this way, West Indies chasing 202 runs in the second inning, achieved the target very easily by losing just 2 wickets in 34.5 over and won the match very easily by 8 wickets.
India Women bowler Jhulan Goswami and Ekta Bisht got 1-1 wicket.
England Women batsman Tammy Beaumont selected as the best player of the match, she played a brilliant unbeaten half-century inning of 87 runs with the help of 1 six and 12 boundries in 87 balls.
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