India Girls guide semi-final berth in T20 Global Cup with win over Eire

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Revealed on: Feb 22, 2023

India Girls showed their berth within the semi-final of the ICC Girls’s T20 Global Cup 2023 with a five-run (DLS Manner) win over Eire Girls in a Staff B fit at St George’s Park in Gqeberha on Monday, February 20. India will perhaps face Staff A table-toppers Australia within the first semi-final on Thursday, February 23.

The Girls in Blue received the toss and batted first within the recreation. They posted 155 for six as vice-captain Smriti Mandhana, who used to be dropped 4 occasions, scored a career-best 87 off 56 balls. The southpaw’s innings featured 9 fours and 3 sixes. Shafali Verma’s 23 used to be the following ultimate rating. Jemimah Rodrigues chipped in with a at hand 19 off 12 on the demise.

For Eire, skipper Laura Delany picked up 3 for 33 and Orla Prendergast 2 for 22. Chasing 156, Eire misplaced Amy Hunter for one off the primary ball, whilst Prendergast used to be wiped clean up by means of Renuka Thakur Singh for a duck. Gaby Lewis used to be no longer out on 32 off 25 and Delany on 17 when rain stopped play. The chasing aspect have been 54/2, 5 runs in need of the DLS par rating

Talking after India Girls’s win, skipper Harmanpreet Kaur stated, “It used to be a just right recreation for us. Smriti were given runs, which used to be essential. On every occasion she’s giving us that get started, we’re at all times get just right totals. I simply sought after to head there and spend a while within the heart.”

On achieving the semis, Kaur added, “It way so much, we’re running so arduous for such a lot of years and we at all times wish to do smartly. Hope we’re going to give our 100%. We at all times experience our fit towards them (Australia). It’s going to be a do or die for each the groups. We simply wish to pass and play loose cricket.”

Participant of the Fit Mandhana described the innings as some of the hardest she has performed. She defined, “One among hardest innings I would have performed with regards to the tempo at what they have been bowling. We had mentioned that we were not going to get as a lot tempo. With the wind, it were given worse than we concept. Actual arduous paintings for the primary 30 balls, I assumed I had forgotten the right way to bat. In a while, I informed myself to get into higher positions to hit.”

–By means of A Cricket Correspondent