India Women Vs Ireland Women 18th Match Group B 20 February 2023

18th T20 • St George's Park • Port Elizabeth

India Women

155/6 (20)

Ireland Women

54/2 (8.2)

IND-W won by 5 runs (DLS Method)

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Player of the Match Smriti Mandhana

87(56)

India

IRE-W

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India

155/6 (20)

Batters

Shafali Verma

82.76

c Hunter b Delany

Smriti Mandhana

155.36

c Lewis b Prendergast

Harmanpreet Kaur

65.00

c Prendergast b Delany

Richa Ghosh

0.00

c Lewis b Delany

Jemimah Rodrigues

158.33

st Waldron b Al Kelly

Deepti Sharma

0.00

c Dempsey b Prendergast

Pooja Vastrakar

200.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 2, NB: 0, W: 8)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 7.75)

155/6

Did not Bat

Devika Vaidya, Shikha Pandey, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Renuka Thakur

Bowlers

EXT

Orla Prendergast

5.50

Georgina Dempsey

9.00

Arlene Kelly

7.00

Leah Paul

9.00

Cara Murray

8.00

Laura Delany

8.25

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Shafali Verma

c Hunter b Delany

1-62

9.3

Harmanpreet Kaur

c Prendergast b Delany

2-114

15.5

Richa Ghosh

c Lewis b Delany

3-115

15.6

Smriti Mandhana

c Lewis b Prendergast

4-143

18.4

Deepti Sharma

c Dempsey b Prendergast

5-143

18.5

Jemimah Rodrigues

st Waldron b Al Kelly

6-155

19.6

Ireland Women

54/2 (8.2)

Batters

Amy Hunter

100.00

runout (Ghosh / Rodrigues)

Gaby Lewis

128.00

Not out

Orla Prendergast

0.00

b Thakur

Laura Delany

85.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 4)

TOTAL

(8.2 Ov, RR: 6.35)

54/2

Did not Bat

Eimear Richardson, Louise Little, Arlene Kelly, Mary Waldron, Leah Paul, Cara Murray, Georgina Dempsey

Bowlers

EXT

Renuka Thakur

5.00

Pooja Vastrakar

2.2

6.00

Shikha Pandey

7.00

Deepti Sharma

11.00

Rajeshwari Gayakwad

5.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Amy Hunter

runout (Ghosh / Rodrigues)

1-1

0.1

Orla Prendergast

b Thakur

2-1

0.5

Match Info

Date & Time

20 Feb, 06:30 PM IST

Venue

St George's Park, Port Elizabeth

Match

18th T20,

ICC Women's T20 World Cup

Umpires

Anna Harris(England), Kim Cotton (New Zealand), Nimali Perera(Sri Lanka, TV)

Referee

Michell Pereira (Sri Lanka)

Toss

India Women elected to bat

4 2 1wd 0 0 0 4

Over 6

Runs: 11

1 1 0 0 1 1

Over 7

Runs: 4

1 1 1 0 1 1

Over 8

Runs: 5

0 0 1wd

Over 9

Runs: 1

All Overs

Player of the Match Smriti Mandhana

87(56)

Commentary

Alright. India are set to meet Australia in the semi-finals, the toughest opponent there is and with a lot of holes to plug, India need to come good if they are to stand any chance of beating the mighty Aussies in that all important crunch game. This is me, Mohul Bhowmick, signing off on behalf of my partner Pradeep. Until next time, ciao!

Harmanpreet Kaur, India's captain: It is always nice when Smriti gets runs for us, so very happy to see her do that today. Whenever she gets runs for us, we convert it into a big total. I wanted to spend some time in the middle, so promoted myself up the order. It feels nice to have qualified for the semis, we have been working hard from a long time. All of this is coming to fruition now. We are excited to take Australia on in the semis!

Laura Delany, Ireland's captain: It was disappointing for sure, but am glad with the way the girls performed throughout the tournament. Beating Australia in the warmup game was a real highlight for us, and we will take a lot of confidence from that. Cricket Ireland has invested a lot on us, and we are trying to give something back to them. We take a lot of learnings from this tournament, unfortunate that it had to end this way.

Smriti Mandhana is the Player of the Match! Here's what she has to say: Yes, the finger is good. One of the toughest I would've played in terms of the pace, how they were bowling, we had discussed that we're not going to get much pace and with the wind, it gotten a little tough and it was really hard work in the first 30 balls, later I found my groove. (Chat with Shafali in the middle) We both were trying to tell each other, try and be in good shape, I was bad initially and then Shafali wasn't even timing the ball and we were not used to the pace of the pitch as well and once we started hitting well, it went fine. Not the perfect preparation going into semis, we've done amazingly well from the first game but England's game we learnt a lot of lessons.

India beat Ireland by 5 runs! (DLS Method)

Smriti Mandhana 87 (56) | Laura Delany 3/33
Gaby Lews 32* (25) | Orla Prendergast 2/22

It was the rain that had the final say in this game, as Ireland were beaten by India by a mere 5 runs. The drizzle just did not stop and we eventually ran out of time. Ireland will be extremely disappointed with themselves for having fallen short via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method.

Laura Delany and Gaby Lewis, coming together after the dismissal of Amy Hunter and Orla Prendergast in the first over of this innings, scored at a rapid pace. They were well on course for their first win in this tournament, if not for the rain to play spoilsport.

Their skipper Delany will be extremely disappointed and crestfallen by the margin that they have fallen short by. Earlier in the day, Smriti Mandhana rode her luck to get to her highest score in WT20Is, but departed 13 runs short of her century.

She did not quite get a lot of support from the other end, and this meant that India, on one occasion posed to get to 170 or 180, ended up with just 155 on the board. Overall, India will be happy with their performance, although Harmanpreet Kaur and the other batters would have hoped for a better outing with the bat in hand.

Update 9:42 PM IST: Bad news, folks! The game has been called off. India have won the game by 5 runs and are through to the semi-finals!

That's the game. The rain hasn't stopped and we've run out of time.

We lose by just five runs on DLS.

A fantastic effort by the team today 👏

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Update 9:30 PM IST: The cut off time here in Gqeberha is 6:33 PM local time, which translates to 10:03 PM Indian Standard Time. We should get to know something definite till then.

There's nothing official from the ground yet but we will start to lose overs in a few mins.

Ireland were brilliant to recover from the early blow. Given how the situation they find themselves a bit unlucky here as Lewis went on to take the attack to the opposition and they are just five runs behind from the DLS par score.

Rain 🌧️ stops play here in Gqeberha!

Stay tuned for further updates.

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Ireland are 5 runs behind the par score!

There is a slight drizzle at the ground, and the umpires are consulting with each other. They have decided to walk off the ground, followed by the players. The covers have come on. India are ahead by DLS at the moment.

8.3 Pooja Vastrakar to Gaby Lewis, WIDE! Full delivery but shapes way outside the off-stump, called a wide. The rain has gotten heavier and it has continued to be quite windy too.

8.2 Pooja Vastrakar to Gaby Lewis, back of a length delivery but wide of off-stump, Lewis had to reach and cuts it into the turf but straight to point.

8.1 Pooja Vastrakar to Gaby Lewis, back of a length on the off-stump, Lewis plants her front foot forward and swipes it but straight to the mid-on fielder.

Pooja Vastrakar [2-0-13-0] comes back into the attack.

Gayakwad has been a little on the shorter side, but she has managed well. India will be pleased with themselves, but they cannot get too far ahead of themselves.

overs

53 /2 score

runs

Gaby Lewis *

32 (23)

Laura Delany

17 (20)

Rajeshwari Gayakwad

0 /5

7.6 Rajeshwari Gayakwad to Gaby Lewis, drops it short on the fourth stump, Lewis on the backfoot cuts it past the covers for a single to finish the over.

7.5 Rajeshwari Gayakwad to Laura Delany, floated delivery on the off-stump, Delany reaches and sweeps it over square-leg region for a single.

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