Women's Cricket
IND vs AUS, Women's T20 World Cup LIVE: India lose by 5 runs - Highlights
Women's T20 World Cup: Harmanpreet Kaur (52) and Jemimah Rodrigues (43) put on a brilliant partnership in reply to Australia's 172/4, but India fell short by 5 runs.
Indian women's cricket team (Source: AsianCricketCouncil/Twitter)
India (167/8) fell five runs short of Australia, who scored 172/4 in their 20 overs in the semi-final of the Women's T20 World Cup on Thursday.
Shikha Pandey (2/32) was the best bowler for India. Australia captain Meg Lanning's 49 was the highest score in the first innings. Harmanpreet Kaur (52) and Jemimah Rodrigues (43) put on a brilliant partnership which turned out to be in vain as Australia produced their killer instinct in the last two overs of the match.
As it happened:
Live Updates
- 23 Feb 2023 1:41 PM GMT
India needs to focus on fielding.
Sneh Rana completes her over which had one dropped chance and one no ball. Australia looks to struggle at the moment.
Australia 59/1 after 9 overs.
- 23 Feb 2023 1:38 PM GMT
Was that a chance? This might be big one.
Richa Ghosh misses a golden chance to get the wicket of Meg Lanning. Sneh Rana undid Lanning with her bounce but Richa dropped that.
- 23 Feb 2023 1:36 PM GMT
End to an eventful over- 7 runs and 1 wicket.
Radha Yadav strikes in her first over as she takes the big wicket of explosive Alyssa Healy who was stumped after missing a straight ball.
Australia 54/1 after 8 overs
- 23 Feb 2023 1:34 PM GMT
RADHA YADAV STRIKES!!
India gets the first break through as Alyssa Healy misses a low ball and Richa Ghosh does well in breaking the stumps.
Australia 52/1 after 7.3 overs.
- 23 Feb 2023 1:32 PM GMT
UPDATE: Harmanpreet is in dugout
Indian skipper goes to dugout to get some spray on her injured finger it seems.
- 23 Feb 2023 1:31 PM GMT
Shikha Pandey has been economical today.
Shikha Pandey uses her variation and controls the run flow in this over. Australia only managed to take four singles in this over.
Australia 47/0 after 7 overs.
- 23 Feb 2023 1:27 PM GMT
Australia ends the powerplay with a 12 runs over.
Australia ends the powerplay with a flourish.
India wastes one review, Beth Mooney lifts one over the long off for a six and Harmanpreet Kaur concedes 2 runs on the last ball.
Australia 43/0 after 6 overs.
- 23 Feb 2023 1:24 PM GMT
Review wasted by India.
The ball was hitting the gloves of Healy and India lose their first review.
- 23 Feb 2023 1:21 PM GMT
Another good over from India.
Australia is going at just above 6 runs per over at the moment. Shikha Pandey bowled a tight over with Jemimah saving two runs on the boundary with a brilliant effort.
Australia 31/0 after 5 overs.
