New Delhi. World champions Australia women’s team defeated the Indian women’s team by 54 runs in the fifth and final T20I match. With this victory, Australia won the five-match T20I series 4–1. Batting first, the Australia women’s team scored a mountain-like score of 196 runs for 4 wickets. In response, the Indian team was all out for 142 runs in 20 overs. Deepti Sharma played a half-century innings, but could not win the team.
Talking about today’s match, Australia had lost four wickets by scoring 67 runs at one time, but Gardner and Harris played amazing innings and they scored a mountain like 196 runs. Gordon scored an unbeaten 66 off 32 balls. At the same time, Grace Harris scored an unbeaten 64 off 35 balls. Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur bowled with 7 bowlers. Devika Vaidya, Shefali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Anjali Sarwani got one wicket each.
Deepti and Harleen struggle
Chasing the target of 197 runs, the Indian team got off to a bad start. Openers Smriti Mandhana and Shefali could not do much and lost their wickets early. Harleen Deol, who replaced Jemima, played a quick inning of 24 off 16 balls. Captain Harmanpreet also could not do anything special and became the victim of Sutherland after scoring 12 runs.
The Australian bowlers dismissed the Indian batsmen from time to time. Due to which India could not make a comeback in this match. In the end, Deepti Sharma made an effort by scoring a half-century, but it was not enough. Deepti scored 53 off 34 balls.
Heather Gramm took a hat trick
Australian bowler Heather Gramm took a total of 4 wickets while taking a hat-trick. At the same time, all-rounder Ashley Gardner got 2 wickets and Talia McGrath, Annabel Sutherland got one wicket each. Gardner has been given the title of Player of the Match and Player of the Series. Talia McGrath captained the Australian team when Alyssa Healy was injured.