Match Report – BAN-W vs IND-W fifth T20I, Might 09, 2024
India 156/5 (Hemlata 37, Mandhana 33, Harmanpreet 30, Nahida 2-27, Rabeya 2-28) beat Bangladesh 135/6 (Moni 37, Radha 3-24, Asha 2-25) by 21 runs
India accomplished a 5-0 T20I collection sweep over Bangladesh with a 21-run win within the fifth and remaining match in Sylhet on Thursday. Batting first, India scored 156 / 5 with D Hemalatha, Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Richa Ghosh scoring half-centuries. Though Radha Yadav’s three-wicket haul was adopted by Ritu Moni and Shorifa Khatun’s comeback within the second half of the chase, it was not sufficient for a comfort win for Bangladesh.
Radha, on his return to India after being off the nationwide radar for a 12 months, ended the collection as essentially the most profitable bowler with ten wickets, incomes him the Participant-of-the-Sequence award together with the Participant-of-the-Match award for his three-wicket haul on Thursday.
After shedding the 2-1 T20I collection at house towards Australia, India shall be glad to safe a strong collection win in Bangladesh, the place the T20 World Cup shall be held in October. Bangladesh, nevertheless, have now misplaced eight consecutive T20 internationals, 5 right here and the primary three towards Australia, all at house.
However, regardless of shedding 5 wickets by the midway mark within the chase, Bangladesh crossed the 120-run mark for the primary time within the collection, because of Moni’s 33-ball 37 and Shorifa’s unbeaten 28 off 21 balls. Nevertheless, there was little or no consideration from the opposite batsmen.
Titas Sadhu gave India the primary breakthrough when she dismissed Sobhana Mostree for 13 runs off 9 balls within the third over. Within the subsequent over, Radha dismissed Dilara Akhtar, as she failed to drag over mid-off. Radha’s third double wicket of the collection got here within the ninth of the innings when she knocked out Nigar Sultana’s stumps with a crazy supply, and three balls later, she trapped Rubaiya Haider lbw for 20. He completed with figures of 2-0-4 -3. He took 3 wickets for twenty-four runs after being focused by Moni and Shorifa.
After ten overs, Bangladesh had been 52 for five, needing 105 off the remaining 60 balls.
However Mani refused. She charged down the monitor towards the spinners, used the width to attain in direction of backward level, and in addition performed the ramp shot to Pooja Vastrakar. Together with Shorifa, he shared a partnership of 57 runs off 41 balls for the sixth wicket, bringing the equation all the way down to 53 runs off 24 balls. Nevertheless, S Asha, enjoying her second T20I, ended Bangladesh’s hopes by dismissing Moni within the seventeenth over. He took 2 wickets for 25 runs in his 4 overs.
Hemlata, Mandhana, Harmanpreet and Ghosh shine with the bat.
On account of Bangladesh’s poor efficiency on the sphere, India had been 71 for two after ten overs, with Mandhana and Hemlata taking management after the early dismissal of Shafali Verma, who was enjoying her a hundredth worldwide match. Mandhana, specifically, hit 4 clear boundaries and an inside-out six off off-spinner Sultana Khatun in her 25-ball 33. Nevertheless, she was given out lbw within the eighth over, with replays suggesting that the ball hit her pad simply outdoors the off stump as she missed an tried back-foot punch. No DRS meant Mandhana needed to go.
Hemalatha, the No. 3, began slowly, scoring 13 runs in her first 17 balls. At 8 o’clock they had been additionally launched. Nevertheless, he picked up tempo and shortly scored 37 runs in 28 balls. It included two highly effective hits over long-on and sixes over long-off and two fours – a sweep and a swy over midwicket after charging down the monitor.
India’s innings actually took off when she joined Harmanpreet. The duo placed on 60 runs in 42 balls for the third wicket, with the Indian captain scoring 30 runs in 24 balls. After scoring 12 runs off one ball, Harmanpreet picked up her momentum by hitting three boundaries off Moni within the thirteenth over. Nevertheless, Harmanpreet’s wicket – dismissed lbw by left-arm spinner Nahida Akhtar when she went for a sweep shot – triggered a mini collapse as India reached 124 from 122 for two in six balls.
After a number of quiet overs, Ghosh supplied some impetus to the innings, scoring an unbeaten 28 off 17 balls, hitting three fours and a six over the bowlers’ heads to assist India cross the 150-mark, which was nicely past Bangladesh’s attain.
