India vs Bangladesh highlights, Women’s Asia Cup 2022: Shafali Verma’s all-round show guides India to semi-finals

India vs Bangladesh highlights, Women’s Asia Cup 2022: Shafali Verma’s all-round show guides India to semi-finals

The Indian team has made a spectacular comeback after the defeat against Pakistan in the Women’s Asia Cup. India defeated Bangladesh by 59 runs in their fifth match. Batting first after winning the toss, India scored 159 runs. Chasing the target of 160 runs, Bangladesh team could score only 100 runs and lost the match by a huge margin. This is India’s fourth win in five matches in the Women’s Asia Cup and Team India remains in the first place with eight points. India’s only defeat was against Pakistan in the last match.(Credenttv.com)

Shefali Verma did an amazing job for India in this match. He also took two wickets after playing a brilliant innings of 55 runs. Now India’s last league match is with Thailand. By winning this match, Team India would like to make it to the next round. However, the top-ranked India in the points table is almost certain to play the final.

Bangladesh’s poor batting

Chasing the target of 160 runs, Bangladesh batsmen batted very slowly. Fargana Haque and Murshida Khatoon scored thirty runs in the powerplay. The team’s first wicket fell in the 10th over, but even then the score was only 45 runs. Even after this none of the batsmen could do anything special. Fargana Haque scored 30 runs in 40 balls and Murshida Khatoon made 21 runs in 25 balls. Rumana Ahmed could not even open her account. At the same time, Ritu Moni scored four runs in 12 balls.

Captain Nigar Sultana scored the highest 36 runs in 29 balls. Fatima Khatoon departs after scoring one run. For India, Shefali Verma took two wickets in the 19th over. Renuka Singh and Sneh Rana got one wicket each. Deepti Sharma also took two wickets and conceded just 13 runs.

Shefali’s half-century took India to 159 runs

Batting first, the Indian team won the toss and scored 159 runs. Shafali Verma and skipper Smriti Mandhana got India off to a great start. Both shared 96 runs in 72 balls for the first wicket. The pair had scored 59 runs in the powerplay. However, Smriti was run out for 47. After this the Indian batting got derailed.

Shefali Verma also got out after scoring 55 runs. Jemima, who came at number three, scored 35 runs in 24 balls, but at the other end, Richa Ghosh was dismissed for four, Kiran Navgire zero and Deepti Sharma scored 10 runs. In the end, India scored 159 runs in the allotted 20 overs for the loss of five wickets. Initially it seemed that the Indian team would score close to 200, but the Indian batsmen could not do much in the death overs.

For Bangladesh, Rumana Ahmed took three and Salma Khatoon took one wicket. Apart from these two, Fahima Khatoon and Sanjeeda Akhtar also gave skimpy runs and did not allow India to make huge scores.