The Indian women’s cricket team defeated West Indies by 155 runs in their third match of the ongoing ODI World Cup. This is India’s second win in the tournament. Mithali Brigade defeated Pakistan by 107 runs in the first match. Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur scored brilliant centuries in this match for Team India. On the other hand, Jhulan Goswami created history by taking a wicket.
Jhulan Goswami has now become the highest wicket-taker in the World Cup. She has overtaken Lynn Fulstone of Australia and now she has 40 wickets in her name in the World Cup. Against West Indies, he took one wicket for 43 runs. She has so far taken 4 wickets in three matches of this tournament. Also Harmanpreet Kaur is the second top scorer of this tournament who has scored 185 runs in 3 matches.
Opener Smriti Mandhana is at number three in terms of scoring the most runs. He has scored 181 runs in 3 matches so far which includes a century and a half-century. Kaur has also scored a century and a half-century with the bat. The duo also shared a partnership of 184 runs for the fourth wicket in the match against West Indies. This is the second largest partnership in this World Cup. Apart from this, this is the biggest partnership for the fourth wicket in the world. This is the 9th highest partnership in terms of runs.
Indian captain Mithali Raj has become the player to captain the most World Cup matches, surpassing former Australian captain Belinda Clark. So far, he has captained India in 24 matches of the World Cup, out of which the team has won 15 and the team has lost 8. One match has also been inconclusive.
After the batters, the Indian bowlers also bowled brilliantly. At one point West Indies had a dangerous start and they scored 100 runs in 12 overs. Openers Diandra Dotlin and Hailey Mathews added 100 runs in 74 balls. Sneh Rana gave India success in the 13th over, after which the entire Caribbean team collapsed. Rana took 3, Meghna Singh 2 and Jhulan, Rajeshwari Gaikwad and Pooja Vastrakar took one wicket each. The entire team of Windies was all out for 162 runs.
Significantly, India will have to face the strongest teams in the next two matches. The Indian team will face England in the next match on 16th. After this, on March 19, there will be a clash with Australia, who won the World Cup 6 times. England is the defending champion and has defeated India in the last final.