Last Update: February 24, 2023, 07:37 IST
Harmanpreet Kaur (left) and MS Dhoni
The Indian women’s cricket team crashed out in the semi-finals of the 2023 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup after losing to Australia.
Indian cricket team’s spectacular performance in 2023 ICC Women’s T20 World The cup came to an end after losing to defending champions Australia in the semi-finals on Thursday. Last edition’s runners-up India scored 167/8 in reply to Australia’s 172/4 in Cape Town.
After losing their top-three inside the first four overs, India Found themselves in trouble at 28/3 when captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues came together and revived the target with a magnificent 69 runs.
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Rodrigues scored 43 off 24 balls while Harmanpreet scored 34 off 52 balls.
With the contest evenly drawn, an unfortunate incident involving Harmanpreet turned out to be the turning point from where Australia tightened their grip before clinching the victory. It was a run out for Harmanpreet as she went back to slog-swap it over deep midwicket for a second run.
However, when she was inches away from making her ground at the striker’s end, her bat got stuck on the pitch and wicket-keeper Alyssa Healy had all the time in the world to drop the bails. Replays showed Harmanpreet was well out of the crease and threw her bat in frustration, knowing it was time to go back.
ICC shared a clip showing the similarity between the legendary run out M S Dhoni For a direct hit in the semi-final of the 2019 Men’s ODI World Cup against New Zealand. The contest was played over two days due to rain-interruptions and India were 215/7 off 10 deliveries needing 15 more to win.
Dhoni took one run after taking one and then stormed back for two runs. However, Martin Guptill hit the bull’s-eye and caught the former India skipper at short to send him back to 50. India were bowled out for 221 and New Zealand entered the final.
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“Can’t be more unfortunate than to get back the momentum that me and Jamie were batting with,” he said. And to lose after that, we didn’t expect that today. Harmanpreet said during the post-match presentation, “It couldn’t have been more unlucky than the way I got run out.”
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