In their third match of the Women’s World Cup 2022, the Indian team defeated West Indies by 155 runs. In this match, India’s two star batsmen Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur scored a brilliant century and shared an important partnership of 184 runs for the fourth wicket and took the team’s score to 300. Mandhana was adjudged player of the match for her innings of 123 runs.
reminiscence shared his award with fellow Centurion and team vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur. By doing this, he won the hearts of cricket lovers with his batting, as well as he won the hearts of everyone with his move. Harmanpreet Kaur also played a brilliant innings of 109 runs today. Both also shared the highest fourth-wicket partnership in women’s ODI cricket.
After being adjudged the player of the match, Smriti Mandhana reached with partner Harmanpreet and taking the award, Smriti said, ‘I think we both equally helped to reach 300 score. It would be nice for us to share this trophy. (Mandhana laughed and said) I am sure ICC will have enough budget for two trophies at once.
The BCCI Woman took to her Twitter handle to share a picture of the moment in which Mandhana and Kaur were with the trophy. It was written in the caption that, Smriti Mandhana shared the player of the match award trophy with her fellow centurion and team vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur.
Smriti Mandhana scored her fifth century in One Day International in this match, while Harmanpreet Kaur This was his fourth century. This was the first century by vice-captain Harmanpreet after scoring a century against Australia in the 2017 World Cup. Thanks to these innings of both, India has scored more than 300 runs for the first time in the Women’s World Cup.
At one point India’s score was reduced to 78 for 3 in 13.5 overs. After this, Smriti and Harmanpreet shared a 184-run partnership for the fourth wicket and helped the score reach 317. In reply, West Indies had also started well and scored 100 runs in 12 overs. After this Sneh Rana bowled brilliantly and took three wickets. Apart from them, Meghna Singh took 2, Jhulan Goswami, Rajeshwari Gaikwad and Pooja Vastrakar took one wicket each. Thanks to this, India won the match.