India’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur was simply an inch away from her crease. Trying to finish a double within the fifteenth over of India’s chase in opposition to Australia within the 2023 Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final, her bat received caught within the pitch when she tried to return to the crease.
Coming in to bat at quantity 5, Harmanpreet scored 52 off 34 balls, taking India to 133/4 of their chase of 173 from a gap rating of 28/3 within the powerplay, earlier than she was run out. Went. A second that proved decisive as defending champions Australia went on to win the match by 5 runs.
Harmanpreet stated after the match, “Can’t be more unfortunate than to get back the momentum that I had when Jamie (Jemima Rodrigues) and I were batting.” “And to lose after that, we didn’t expect it today. It couldn’t have been more unfortunate than the way I got run out.”
Harmanpreet stated that even after dropping three fast wickets within the powerplay, India’s plan was to take the sport deep.
“Effort was extra necessary. We mentioned preventing until the final ball. The outcome did not go in our favor however I’m pleased with the best way we performed on this match. We knew we had so much to lose early on. Good batting line up.
The skipper additionally lauded the efforts of India’s quantity three participant Jemimah Rodrigues (43 off 24) within the chase, who shared a vital 69-run stand together with her to place India in hope on Thursday.
He stated, ‘Jamie must be given credit score for the best way he batted at this time. He gave us the momentum we have been in search of. It is a pleasure to see such performances. Glad to see him enjoying his pure sport.”
The 33-year-old additionally did a brief autopsy of India dropping monitor of the sport within the first innings as a consequence of poor fielding.
“Even though we didn’t play to our strengths, we reached the semi-finals. We gave away those easy catches. You have to take them when you want to win. We misfielded. We can only learn from these lessons and not repeat the mistakes ,” He stated.
Earlier within the sport, Australia scored 173/4 after profitable the toss and electing to bat first. While opener Beth Mooney scored 54 off 37 balls, skipper Meg Lanning offered an enormous end with 49 off 34 balls.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
