Women's Cricket
Women's World Cup: India beat West Indies by 81 runs in final warm-up match — Highlights
India have thus beaten West Indies and South Africa in their two warm-up matches before the ICC Women's World Cup.
Indian women's cricket team (Source: Mithali Raj/Twitter)
Team India beat West Indies by 81 runs in their final World Cup warm-up game on Tuesday. India had set a target of 259 for the Windies to chase. Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma were the top scorers for India both scoring 66 and 51 runs, respectively. West Indies (177/9 in 50 overs) failed to chase the target and lost nine wickets. Pooja Vastrakar was the highest wicket-taker of the match (3-21).
India will next play their first match of the World Cup campaign against Pakistan on March 6.
As it happened:
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- 28 Feb 2022 11:29 PM GMT
WICKET!
Mandhana is out after scoring an excellent 66 runs off 67 balls. Bowler Cherry Ann Fraser with the catch.
The score is 118-2. Mithali Raj comes in at No.4
- 28 Feb 2022 11:17 PM GMT
50 for Smriti Mandhana!
Mandhana scores a comfortable 50, while Deepti is not far behind.
- 28 Feb 2022 11:01 PM GMT
Mandhana inches closer to a half-century
The opener is currently at 44 while Deepti is at 26.
India is 74-1 after 14 overs.
- 28 Feb 2022 10:30 PM GMT
Smriti Mandhana with a good start
After losing the early wicket of Shafali, Mandhana is scoring some quick runs while Deepti Sharma is on the other end.
The score is 26-1.
- 28 Feb 2022 10:18 PM GMT
WICKET!
India already loses its first wicket as Shafali is bowled by Henry, She goes without scoring any runs,
The score is 2-1 after 1 over.
