India W somehow managed to increase their NRR, they are now placed at no. 2 in the points table. Still, the qualification is not guaranteed but the points table is wide open now. Sri Lanka the Asian Champions are yet to win a match in the Women's T20 World Cup. On the other hand the Group B seems like England and South Africa will qualify easily. Group A is Evenly Poised with Australia, India, New Zealand and Pakistan still in the race of the qualification. Pakistan captain Fatima Sana has left the team and went back to Pakistan due to sudden death of her father. Pakistan might not win their last match against Australia and New Zealand but still we can't say anything before the game. India will hope New Zealand to lose a their game against Sri Lanka, So that their qualification chance will be increased.
India W now has 2 qualification scenario, First, beat Australia, just beat no need to look for the NRR. Even if we beat Australia by 1 run our NRR is already strong and more than New Zealand currently. Our NRR is 0.576 and New Zealand's NRR is -0.050. The second scenario is, If we lose against Australia (which is most probably gonna happen), then we need to hope that any one of Sri Lanka or Pakistan to beat New Zealand. The third or the outside chance we can say is Australia losing their remaining 2 matches, which impossible so we should not consider this scenario.
Talking about the yesterday's match, it was great performance from India in all departments, yes even in the fielding. One of our weak point was fielding, but yesterday we saw some amazing efforts from our team, especially Radha Yadav's catch, it was phenomenal! the catch gave flashbacks of the final's of men's ODI World Cup 2023. Richa was, as always great behind the stumps, she did some great stumping and caught aa great catch when Asha was bowling. Renuka took a catch running backwards, overall it was our great day for the women in blue in the field yesterday.
In terms of batting, Shefali and Smriti started of well and had a opening partnership of 98 runs. Shefali slowed a bit later in the innings which would have costed us badly but Harmanpreet attacked at the right moment. She was just looking a different beast yesterday and she scored unbeaten 52 runs of the 27 balls she faced, which eventually helped team India to score the highest score of this T20 World Cup i.e 172 with the loss of only 3 wickets. Kaur was finally looking in some great touch and we can expect her to go big against her favourite opposition, the Aussies.
How can you think that we lacked in the bowling department? We were top notch in the bowling too. We got 2 wickets in the 1st 2 overs itself. Renuka is finally bowling well in the powerplay, getting some wickets at the start of the innings. Every Indian bowler got atleast a wicket yesterday. Arundhati and Asha took 3 wickets each followed by Renuka who took 2 wickets and Shreyanka and Deepti took 1 wickets each. Not a single bowler had an economy of even 5 Rpo. This helped India w to increase their NRR and they didn't even gave chance to Sri Lankan w to score 100 runs. India won by an whooping margin of 82 runs.
India's next and the biggest challenge is Australia, we are facing them on 13th October and that match will decide the fate Indian team in this tournament. It's very tough to win against Australia but, India will be going to play with a lot of confidence as India beat Sri Lanka, the Asian Champions quite convincingly. Strategies need to be made against the Aussies, so that we can atleast get close to beat them. Even if some how we manage to beat Aussies and reach the Semi-Final, we would probably get out in the semi final, as we will most likely face England in the Semi-Finals. Still, I am hoping Somehow India will lift that prestigious cup. Let's see how long we can survive in this tournament. We have nothing to lose in this tournament as we were not even considered in the top 4 before the start of the tournament.
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