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Yet again australia women’s group got the better of Indian to secure their third win in succession over the women’s dressed in Blue. Australia have won five of seven matches against Ind in women’s T20 World Cup history. Reality that it arrived in a low-scoring thrill ride, with semi-last capability on the line, made it an edge-of-the-seat undertaking.

Eventually, however, as Ind fell nine-runs low, their mission to come to the last-four were likewise taken from their hands.

All things considered, Ind women need Pakistan to beat New Zealand to have any desires for qualifying. On the off chance that the White Plants win, they progress and India will sent pack.

It isn’t whenever Ind first have been held back barely by Australia. During the 2022 Region Games gold decoration match, pursuing 162 to win, India were cruising at 118/2 and required 44 from 33 balls.

Harmanpreet Kaur was motoring along and her 43-ball 65 had India in telling situation for the yellow metal and a colossal success at the competition.

All things considered, Ind imploded pitiably to lose eight wickets for 34 rushes to be bowled out for 152 runs and lose by nine runs.

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Then, at that point, there was the 2023 T20 World Cup semi-last. Yet again on that day in Cape Town, Australia posted 172/4 and India were in shaft position for the success. India required 41 from 34 balls and had six wickets close by with Harmanpreet had struck 52 off 32 balls.

However at that point her bat stalled out in the most lamentable of conditions while sliding to finish an agreeable single. Yet again she strolled off, in disdain, as Ind fell – losing four wickets and falling only five-runs short of the objective.

This time, Harmanpreet Kaur was there until the finish to attempt to upgrade the 152-run target. This time, however, India were not in an agreeable situation, taking everything into account.

At 110/3, India required 53 off 30 balls and afterward 42 runs from 26 balls. Not the greatest ask yet not exactly comparable to the two disastrous losses referenced previously.

Then, at that point, Deepti Sharma and Richa Ghosh fell in merely one stumble into four balls.

Harmanpreet diminished the colossal objective to 14 races to get in the last finished. Having done the hard yards to bring her group close, the India captain couldn’t get them over the triumphant line as Annabel Sutherland struck two times in the last over combined with two run outs to see Aussies into the semi-finals.

India began well in the powerplay, scoring 41 runs, however were fixed back with wickets coming at significant stages to be 47/3. Smriti Mandhana, an unstable opener, scored six runs from 12 balls when she was expected to move forward to the new ball in a must-dominate match. With the surface getting more slow as the match advanced and the errand becoming harder against the old ball, the onus was on the top request, including Harmanpreet, to play large from the word go.

All things considered, when Jemimah Rodrigues fell, India entered a phase of limit dry spell. For three straight overs, no limits came for India and the dialed back innings guaranteed Australia were through.

In urgent requirement for stream of runs, Harmanpreet pulled Darcie Brown in the eleventh over, which was her most memorable limit and off the fifteenth ball she confronted.

It took one more 20 balls for India to clear the limit rope once more, in the fourteenth over, so, all in all the expected run rate was over ten an over.

Harmanpreet practically without any help kept India in the chase yet the dialed back approach in the center returned to hurt the group, regardless of a late push. The 35-year-old raised her fifty off 44 balls however stood watching, haplessly, at the non-striker’s end for the vast majority of the last finished, as wickets fell under tension.

Afterward, a blue Harmanpreet commended an overall Australia for contributing while at the same time recognizing they didn’t keep the scoring rate sufficiently high.
“We realized this was (going to be) a troublesome competition,” Kaur said. “The main thing is, when Deepti and I were batting, that time we couldn’t use a couple of free balls. We might have controlled the limits. I think we were still in the game.

“I think their whole group contributes, they’re not reliant upon a couple of players,” she said.

“They realize that they have such countless all-rounders, they have players who can assume responsibility in the powerplay, and later on they have nothing fixed, they can continuously change as per pitch and circumstance.”