India ladies beat Sri Lanka to win cricket gold – Online Cricket News

IMAGE: The Indian group rejoice after profitable the gold medal within the ladies’s cricket occasion on the Asian Video games on Monday. {Photograph}: ICC/X

Rookie pacer Titas Sadhu single-handedly earned a gold medal for the Indian ladies’s cricket group in its maiden look because it defeated Sri Lanka by 19 runs in a low-scoring closing of the Asian Video games in Hangzhou on Monday.

On a pitch tough for batting, the Indian ladies’s group struggled to 116/7 of their 20 overs.

Nevertheless Titas, who’s simply 4 days shy of her nineteenth birthday, bowled a devastating first spell and completed with very good figures of 4-1-6-3 to play a giant position in limiting Sri Lanka to 97/8 in 20 overs.

She had an in a position ally in leg-spinner Devika Vaidya (4-0-15-1), who stored a good leash on the islanders. Left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad (3-0-20-2) and off-spinner Deepti Sharma (4-0-25-1) began off badly however have been on the right track in the course of the back-end as Indian ladies at all times regarded in full management.

IMAGE: Titas Sadhu, centre, celebrates a wicket with team-mates. {Photograph}: BCCI/X

This was one gold medal that India have been anticipated to win, however the usual of cricket was fairly poor, and the character of wicket did not assist issues.

The lanky Titas bowled fast and stored her deliveries on fuller size to get three wickets in her first two overs, together with opposition skipper and their finest batter Chamari Athapaththu (12).

Sensing the sluggish nature of the monitor, Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur began with off-spinner Deepti however the left-handed Athapaththu shortly went on the offensive with a slog swept six and a boundary off the very first over.

The skipper introduced her frontline pacers again from the second over and Titas, taking part in solely her second T20I, received Anushka Sanjeewani (1) to play a lofted drive with out reaching to the pitch of the supply. The straightforward catch at mid-off was taken by Harmanpreet.

IMAGE: India’s gamers rejoice profitable the ultimate match in opposition to Sri Lanka. {Photograph}: BCCI/X

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