Opener Shefali Verma played a match winning innings for India
The 10th match of the ongoing Women’s Asia Cup 2024 was played between India and Nepal (IND-W vs NEP-W) today on Tuesday, 23 July. Let us tell you that Team India has won the match against Nepal by 82 runs and has booked a ticket to the semi-finals.
So young opener Shafali Verma played an important role in helping Team India win the match. Shafali batted aggressively against Nepal and scored a brilliant innings of 81 runs in 48 balls with the help of 12 fours and 1 six, and for this brilliant innings in the match, she was given the Player of the Match (POTM) award.
It was because of Shefali’s innings that Team India was able to set a strong target against Nepal in the match, but after this the Indian bowlers also bowled brilliantly, due to which they won by 82 runs.
For her opening brilliance of 81 off just 48 deliveries, @TheShafaliVerma becomes the Player of the Match đź‘Źđź‘Ź
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— BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) July 23, 2024
India defeated Nepal by 82 runs in a one-sided match
On the other hand, if we give you information about the match, then India won the toss and batted first and scored 178 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in 20 overs. Apart from Shefali’s brilliant innings of 81 runs, opener Dayalan Hemalatha also played a useful innings of 47 runs. Talking about Nepal’s bowling, Sita Rana Magar took 2 wickets and Kabita Joshi took 1 wicket.
After this, when Nepal came out to chase the target of 179 runs given by India, they were able to score only 96 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. Bindu Rawal was the toss scorer for Nepal by scoring 17* runs, apart from this no other player could play a big innings.
On the other hand, the Indian team bowled brilliantly in the match. Against Nepal, spinner Deepti Sharma took 3 wickets, while Radha Yadav and Arudhanti Reddy took 2 wickets each. Apart from this, Renuka Singh Thakur took 1 wicket.