The ICC Women's T20 World Cup is going to start in Australia soon. Before this, the T20 International Tri-Series is being played between the host Australian team, India and England. The Indian women's team has defeated hosts Australia by 7 wickets in the 5th match of the same series. With this victory of India, the final race of Women's T20I Tri-Series has become interesting.
In the fifth match of the T20 tri-series, Indian team captain Harmanpreet Kaur had chosen to bowl after winning the toss, the Australian team scored 173 runs, losing 5 wickets. Indian women had never achieved such a big score in T20 International cricket before, but before the World Cup, the Indian team made it easy to reach the final of T20 tri-series.
For Australia, Ashleigh Gardner scored 93 runs in 57 balls with the help of 11 fours and 3 sixes. At the same time, captain Meg Lenning scored 37 runs in 22 balls. On this basis, India got the target of 174 runs. Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana gave a quick start to the Indian team. Shafali was dismissed for a personal score of 49 from 28 balls with 8 fours and 1 six, but Mandhana held one end.
Smriti Mandhana played a match-winning 55 runs, while Jemima Rodrigues was dismissed for 30. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur remained unbeaten after scoring 20 runs and Deepti Sharma scored 11 runs. With this, the Indian women's team scored 177 runs losing 3 wickets in 19.4 overs and won the match by 7 wickets. After that, a match will be played between England and Australia's Women's team on Sunday, which will decide which teams will play in the final of the Women's T20 International Tri-Series on 12 February.
