New Zealand’s Sophie Devine played captaincy innings
ICC Womens T20 World Cup, 2024: The fourth match of the ongoing Women’s T20 World Cup was played today, Friday, October 4, between the women’s teams of India and New Zealand at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Let us tell you that in this match New Zealand has defeated India by 58 runs.
India vs New Zealand match status
If we tell you about the match in detail, New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat first and scored 160 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Sophie Devine, while playing captaincy for the team, played a match-winning inning of 57 runs in 36 balls with the help of 7 fours.
Apart from Sophie, opener Suzie Best played an inning of 27 runs and Georgia Plimmer played an inning of 34 runs. So if we talk about the bowling of the Indian team, Renuka Singh got 2 wickets and Arudhanti Reddy and Asha Shobhana got 1 wicket each.
On the other hand, when India set out to chase this target from New Zealand, its start was not special. The Indian women’s team lost three big wickets of the top order within the powerplay. Opener Smriti Mandhana was out after scoring 12 runs, Shefali Verma 2 and captain Harmanpreet Kaur was out after scoring 15 runs.
Apart from this, Jemimah Rodrigues was out after scoring 13 runs, Richa Ghosh 12 and Deepti Sharma was out after scoring 13 runs. Team India was all out for just 102 runs in 19 overs, and the team had to face defeat by 58 runs.