Combating half-centuries by Brooke Halliday and Isabella Gaze went in useless as New Zealand succumbed to a superior batting and bowling effort by India to go down by 53 runs by way of DLS Technique in a rain-hit Match 24 of the ICC Girls’s ODI World Cup right here on Thursday. The win sealed a spot within the semifinals for the hosts.
Halliday struck an 84-ball 81 whereas Gaze performed a cameo as New Zealand, chasing a revised goal of 325 in 44 overs, managed to achieve 271/8 after India rode on contrasting centuries by Smriti Mandhana. (109 off 95 balls) and Pratika Rawal (122 from 134) and a blazing unbeaten 76 off 55 balls by Jemimah Rodrigues to publish 340/3 in 49 overs.
The match was disrupted twice by transient spells of rain, the primary one after the forty eighth over in India’s innings, leading to a one-hour-long break attributable to moist patches within the outfield and the match was lowered to 49. overs. There was one other interruption throughout the 10-minute mid-innings break, and the match was additional lowered to 44-overs-a-side, and New Zealand was set a revised goal of 325.
However their chase did not take off as Kranti Gaud despatched again opener Suzie Bates for 1 within the second over, because the batter takes a swing at a large supply outdoors off, just for Pratika Rawal to seize a catch at. over-point.
Georgia Plimmer (30) and Amelia Kerr (45) took the rating previous fifty contained in the nine-over Necessary Energy-play, with the previous going out aggressively, hitting back-to-back boundaries off Renuka Singh. and a mighty six over huge long-on off Sneh Rana. The butter-fingered Indians dropped her twice with Gaud greedy a caught-and-bolted likelihood. She was ultimately cleaned up by Renuka Singh off a thick inside edge for 30 off 25 balls (5×4, 1×6).
New Zealand’s hopes rested on skipper Sophie Devine, their most skilled participant, who shall be retiring after the World Cup, however she didn’t survive for lengthy, castled by Renuka Singh with a nip-backer that beats the within edge. Devine was out for six, and the White Ferns slumped to 59/3.
With the DLS equation altering with every falling wicket, Amelia Kerr tried to pressure the tempo and took the rating previous the 100 mark. Nonetheless, a pointy seize by Smriti Mandhana at brief mid-wicket off as she tried to hit out at a tossed-up supply outdoors off by Sneh Rana. New Zealand had been 115/4 within the twenty first over and looking out in serious trouble. Amelia scored 45 off 53 balls (4×4) however bought out after getting set.
Brooke Halliday stored their hopes alive with a preventing half-century, reaching her fifty off 59 balls. However the going was very gradual with the White Ferns, with Deepti Sharma, Pratika Rawal and Shree Charani bowling tight spells.
Isabella Gaze hammered Kranti Gaud for back-to-back boundaries within the thirty fourth over after surviving a few run-out makes an attempt, the primary one by millimeters off a direct hit by Jemimah from midwicket. She then struck fours on successive balls off Deepti Sharma, and Halliday clobbered a six over deep-midwicket for 17 runs within the thirty fifth over. However the White Ferns confronted a mammoth process with 121 wanted off 54 balls.
Halliday was caught by Sneh Rana off Shree Charini, miscuing an tried large one to be caught on the long-on fence. Halliday’s vigil produced 81 runs off 84 balls (9×4, 1×6), and with that ended New Zealand’s hopes within the event.
Gaze scored her maiden ODI half-century off 39 balls (9×4) and remained unbeaten on 65 off 51 balls, however that was too late and too little.
Transient scores:
India 340/3 in 49 overs (Smriti Mandhana 109, Pratika Rawal 122, Jemimah Rodrigues 76 not out; Suzie Bates 1-40, Rosemary Mair 1-52) New Zealand (revised goal 325 in 44 ovs) (Brooke Halliday 81, Isabella Gaze 65 not out, Amelia Kerr 45; Renuka Singh 2-25, Kranti Gaud 2-48) by 53 runs by way of DLS methodology