Women’s T20 Challenge 2022: Trailblazers won the Women’s T20 Challenge 2022 by 16 runs against Velocity on 26 May. Despite this, his dream of reaching the final of the tournament was shattered. At the same time, the losing Velocity qualified for the finals. Now on Saturday, he will face Supernovas in the final. Velocity had earlier made it to the final of the Women’s T20 Challenge in 2019. Kiran Navgire played a key role in reaching the finals of Velocity. She broke Shafali Verma’s record and scored the fastest fifty in the history of Women’s T20 Challenge.
Kiran Navgire scored 69 runs in 34 balls at a strike rate of 202.94. He hit 5 fours and 5 sixes during his innings. He completed his half-century on the 25th ball by hitting a six. With this, he broke Shafali Verma’s record of half-century in 30 balls. He hits another six at long on off Rajeshwari Gaikwad’s next ball.
In this match played at Maharashtra Cricket Association ground in Pune, Velocity won the toss and elected to bowl. Trailblazers led by Smriti Mandhana scored 190 for 5 in 20 overs. This is the highest score in this competition. Chasing the target, Velocity could only manage 174 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs.
When Velocity came out to bat in the second innings, it had two goals in front of it. Earlier he had to score 159 runs. After scoring so many runs, his final seat would have been confirmed. The second was to achieve the target set by the Trailblazers. He focused more on the first target. It was natural too.
Earlier, the trailblazers’ batters batted amazingly. S Meghna (47 balls, 73 runs, 7 fours and 4 sixes) and Jemima Rodriguez (44 balls, 66 runs, 7 fours and a six) had a good partnership after the early wicket of Smriti Mandhana. Apart from these two, Haley Mathews scored 27 runs in 16 balls and Sophia Dunkley played 19 runs in 8 balls. Simran Bahadur took 2 wickets for Velocity, while Kate Cross, Sneh Rana and Ayobonga Khaka took one wicket each.
Apart from Kiran, Shafali Verma scored 29 runs in 15 balls, Yastika Bhatia scored 19 runs in 15 balls, Laura Walvaardt scored 17 runs in 16 balls, Sneh Rana scored 11 runs in 14 balls and Simran Bahadur scored 12 runs in 10 balls. Trailblazers’ Rajeshwari Gaikwad and Poonam Yadav took 2 wickets each. Renuka Singh, Haley Mathews, Salma Khatoon and Sofia Dunkley were successful in taking a wicket each.