Indian women’s cricket team bowed out of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2022 after a thrilling finish saw South Africa women’s team beat India on the last ball of the match. Laura Woolvaart starred at the top order while, Mignon du Preez gave the finish to the match.
The Mithali Raj led Indian women’s cricket team has been eliminated from the Women’s World Cup 2022 after they failed to stop South Africa chase down the target for 275 runs, but took it to the last ball of the match.
Batting first, the Mithali Raj led Indian women’s team managed to put 274 runs on the board, with contribution from all over. It started with a 91 runs opening partnership between Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma, before the latter was dismissed for 53 runs.
Yastika Bhatia couldn’t contribute much and was dismissed for 2 runs. But then, skipper Mithali Raj took control of the inning with Smriti. However, after a good partnership between the two, Smriti Mandhana departed after scoring a brilliant 71 runs. Mithali carried forward the inning with Harmanpreet Kaur before the skipper was dismissed for 68 runs, and Harmanpreet missed out on her fifty and was dismissed for 48 runs.
While the defending the target, Indian team managed to send Lizelle Lee early on with a fantastic run out by Harmanpreet Kaur. But from there after, South Africa always had the control of the match. Laura Woolvaart played a brilliant inning of 80 runs and was well supported by Lara Goodall, Mignon du Preez and Marizanne Kapp.
But it was Mignon du Preez who took them over the line on the last ball of the match. However, the story could have been different if du Preez’s wicket was not called no ball. But unfortunately, that is the end for the Indian women’s team there in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2022. Australia, South Africa, England and West Indies have reached the semi-finals.
Even though Team India is now out of the competition, they won the hearts of many. Here’s how Twitter reacted to it.