India misplaced the 2017 Ladies’s World Cup ultimate on this very day in 2017. The world had by no means seen such an in depth contest in a World Cup ultimate that was completely different and actually intense, however most significantly, it did change how girls’s cricket was seen and its gamers have been by no means to be appeared upon the identical method once more.
Within the 2017 version of the ICC Ladies’s World Cup, India began off their marketing campaign by defeating England within the event opener.
They did the unthinkable and raced to the semi-finals, the place they knocked out the mighty Australian Ladies’s group within the second semi-final at Derby. Harmanpreet Kaur’s heroics turned the sport and the Ladies in Blue cruised to their second World Cup ultimate to seek out England at Lord’s.
Earlier within the match, the hosts managed to place up a complete of 228/7, after veteran Jhulan Goswami enjoying what was maybe her final World Cup match ripped the center out of England’s innings. Nonetheless, Sarah Taylor (45 runs) and Nat Sciver (51 runs) placed on a 70-run stand for the fourth wicket, Whereas Katherine Brunt (34 runs), Jenny Gunn (25 runs) and Laura Marsh (14 runs) scrambled 60-runs off the final 10 overs to set India to what appeared a testing goal.
Chasing 229, Indian Ladies’s group appeared set for victory at 191-3, however Anya Shrubsole had different plans. Opener Smriti Mandhana failed once more after Shrubsole bowled her for a duck. Skipper Mithali Raj made 17 runs earlier than departing rapidly. Nonetheless, a third-wicket partnership of 95-runs between Punam Raut and Kaur had introduced the equation right down to 91 off 100 balls. Kaur departed at 51 and Raut was trapped lbw for 86 to spark a decisive collapse.
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The guests wanted simply 33 from 39 balls with 5 wickets in hand, however Shrubsole packed off the harmful Veda Krishnamurthy, bowled Goswami and ran out Shikha Verma. She adopted it by claiming Deepti Sharma’s wicket and cleansing up Rajeshwari Gayakwad to not solely full her first five-wicket haul in a World Cup ultimate, but in addition ended with 6/46 – the perfect figures in a World Cup ultimate and handed her aspect a fourth World Cup crown.
England defeated India by 9 runs in entrance of a sold-out crowd at Lord’s and greater than 80 million individuals watching all over the world.
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