india vs new zealand
The first match of the ODI series was played between the Indian women’s team and the New Zealand women’s team. This match was organized at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad. The Indian women’s team won this match. Team India won this match by 59 runs. India has also performed a unique feat in the match played against New Zealand. With the victory in this match, the Indian women’s team has gone 1-0 ahead in this series. Team India has made a record in this match.
Unique feat of Indian team
Indian women’s team captain Harmanpreet Kaur could not play in this match. Smriti Mandhana was given the captaincy in her place. The Indian women’s team won the toss in this match and decided to bat first. Where Team India scored 227 runs in 44.3 overs and was all out. During this period, no player from India even scored a half-century. This is the first time in the history of women’s ODI cricket that a single player from the Indian women’s team has scored such a big score without scoring a half-century. Tejal Hassabnis and Deepti Sharma scored the maximum runs for India. Tejal Hassabnis scored 42 runs and Deepti Sharma scored 41 runs in this match. New Zealand’s Amelia Kerr continued her T20 World Cup form in this match as well and took 4 important wickets.
Highest score by Indian women’s team without any player scoring a half-century
- 227 – vs New Zealand, Ahmedabad, 2024
- 207/7 – vs West Indies, Kolkata, 2004
- 202 – vs England, Mumbai, 2019
- 201 – vs England, Scarborough, 2014
- 200 – vs New Zealand, Auckland, 1995
New Zealand team failed in race chase
New Zealand women’s team was given a target of only 228 runs to win this match. Which his team could not chase. In this match, he scored 168 runs in 40.4 overs and his team was all out. Brooke Halliday played the biggest innings on her behalf. He scored 39 runs against India. The Indian bowlers performed amazingly in this match. Radha Yadav took 3 wickets in this match. Apart from this, Saima Thakur took 2 wickets. Whereas Deepti Sharma and Arundhati Reddy got one success each.
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