Sports Desk, AnyTV, Mount Maunganui
Published by: Rohit Raj
Updated Sun, 06 Mar 2022 08:49 PM IST
Summary
India started their campaign in the ICC Women’s World Cup with a win at Mount Maunganui on Sunday (March 6). Team India won this match by 107 runs, but a Pakistani girl won her heart.
Indian women’s team with Bismah Maroof’s daughter
– Photo : ICC Twitter
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India started their campaign in the ICC Women’s World Cup with a win at Mount Maunganui on Sunday (March 6). Team India won this match by 107 runs, but a Pakistani girl won her heart. Actually, Pakistan captain Bismah Maroof had reached the match with her daughter. The Indian women’s team was seen playing with her little daughter.
ICC shared its picture on social media. In this, Indian players can be seen posing for a picture with Maroof and his daughter. After defeating the Pakistani team, Ekta Bisht first went to the Pakistani dressing room. Ekta caressed Maroof’s seven-month-old daughter and started playing with her. Then gradually many Indian women players reached there.
Maroof’s daughter Fatima was accompanied by India’s star players Harmanpreet Kaur, Jhulan Goswami, Smriti Mandhana and wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh. A video of this is also going viral on social media, which people are very fond of. After the men’s World Cup last year, Indian captain Virat Kohli hugged Pakistani opener Mohammad Rizwan. After this the players of both the teams were seen talking among themselves for a long time. Then the Indian players were praised for this sentiment despite losing the match.
This will warm your heart in beautiful ways: India’s cricket team spending time with the baby daughter of Pakistan team’s captain Bismah Maroof after their World Cup match.
V @ghulamabbasshah pic.twitter.com/pg9WpxmBaY— Mujib Mashal (@MujMash) March 6, 2022
In their first match of the Women’s World Cup, the Indian team won the toss and decided to bat first. He scored 244 runs for seven wickets in 50 overs. Pooja Vastrakar scored the highest 67 runs for the team. Sneh Rana scored 53 not out. Smriti Mandhana contributed 52 and Deepti Sharma contributed 40 runs. Apart from these four, none of the players could touch the double figures.
In front of the target of 245 runs, the entire team of Pakistan was bundled out for 137 runs in 43 overs. Rajeshwari Gaikwad took four wickets for India. Jhulan Goswami and Sneh Rana got two successes each. The next match of the Indian team will be against New Zealand in Hamilton on 10 March.