New Delhi. The Indian women’s team once again fell a few runs short of the target. The Indian batsmen once again failed to make a final impact. The Australia women’s team defeated India by 7 runs to take the series 3-1. Batting first, the Australia women’s team scored 188 runs for 3 wickets. In response, the Indian women’s team could only score 181 runs.
India won the toss and decided to bowl first. There was miscalculation from the captain in bowling. Harmanpreet did not get his leading bowlers to complete the entire over in the experiment. Due to this Australia scored 10-15 runs more and it proved to be the difference of the match. Ellyse Perry scored an unbeaten 72 for Australia. While Ashley Gardner scored 42 runs. For India, Deepti Sharma got two wickets and Radha Yadav got one wicket.
Indian batsmen disappointed
Chasing the target, the Indian women’s team got off to a brisk start. Smriti Mandhana got out on a personal score of 16 runs in the process of scoring fast runs. After this, Shefali, who scored a half-century in the third match, could not do anything special and fell victim to Brown on a personal score of 20 runs. Jemima Rodrigues disappoints once again. She could score only 8 runs. After this Devika Vaidya and Captain Harmanpreet took charge. Both shared a 72-run partnership off 45 balls.
Richa’s struggle did not work
After the dismissal of Harmanpreet, Richa Ghosh batted quickly as soon as she came. First shared a 28-run partnership in 17 balls with Devika Vaidya. After this, finally shared a 32-run partnership with Deepti Sharma on 16 balls, but could not win the team. Richa scored an unbeaten 40 off 19 balls while Deepti scored 12 off 8 balls. For Australia, Ashley Gardner and Alana King got two wickets each. While Darcy Brown got a wicket. Australia has taken an unassailable 3-1 lead in this five-match series. The fifth match will now remain mere formality.