INDW vs SAW: The first ODI match was played between the Indian women’s team and the South Africa women’s team at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. The Indian women’s team won the first match of this series by a margin of 143 runs. Smriti Mandhana’s century of 117 runs helped Team India a lot, which made it easy to win.

Smriti Mandhana played a brilliant century innings

In this match, Team India won the toss and decided to bat first. Indian team’s opener and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana gave a historic performance. Batting first, the Indian team had a bad start, but opener and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana played a decisive innings and handled the team’s innings. Meanwhile, Smriti also achieved great achievements in international cricket.

In the match being played against South Africa, the Indian women’s cricket team lost wickets right from the beginning. Half the Indian team returned to the pavilion at 99 runs. However, vice-captain Smriti Mandhani took the team’s innings forward and completed her half-century in 61 balls. This was the 27th half-century of her ODI career.

Despite wickets falling continuously at the other end, Mandhana stood firmly at one end. Smriti single-handedly dominated the South African team and not only scored a half-century but also took the team to a huge score of 117 runs with the help of 12 fours and a six in 127 balls. Apart from her, Deepti Sharma scored 37 runs and Pooja played an unbeaten innings of 37 runs. India scored 265 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 50 overs.

South Africa women’s team collapsed one by one

South Africa women’s team started chasing the target and started faltering from the very first over. Renuka Singh took a wicket in the first over and after her all the bowlers started dominating one after the other. England’s team was all out after scoring 122 runs in 37.4 overs.

From the team, only Tajmin Brits (18 runs), Lus Sune (33 runs), Marizanne Kapp (24), Sinalo Jafta (27* runs) scored runs, all other batsmen could not even reach the figure of 10 runs. Asha Shobhana, who was playing her first ODI match, took 4 wickets for 21 runs in 8.4 overs. At the same time, Deepti Sharma took 2 and Renuka Singh, Pura Vastrakar, and Radha Yadav took 1-1 wickets respectively. Now the second ODI match of the 3-match series between the two teams will be played on June 19.