India captain Harmanpreet Kaur, on Tuesday (July 9), took a superb catch to place her staff in a commanding place within the do-or-die third T20I towards South Africa on the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.
South Africa had gained the primary recreation of the three-match sequence whereas the second recreation was washed out with none consequence. India wanted to win the third recreation to keep away from a sequence loss. Harmanpreet Kaur gained the toss and opted to bowl first.
India have been off to a fantastic begin as they picked up 2 wickets contained in the powerplay. Shreyanka Patil dismissed captain Laura Wolvaardt within the 4th over earlier than Pooja Vastrakar despatched again Marizanne Kapp within the fifth over. And within the eighth over, Harmanpreet Kaur got here up with a superb diving catch to dismiss the in-form Tazmin Brits and decreased South Africa to 45 for 3.
Deepti Sharma bowled one on the off-stump and the South Africa batter danced down the observe to hit the ball over the infield. Though she couldn’t clear the infield, it seemed like she would get a 4 after hitting the ball in direction of the suitable facet of the India skipper who was standing at mid-off.
Harmanpreet got here up with a fine-diving effort to catch the ball simply inches above the bottom. Brits departed after scoring 20 runs.
Watch the catch from Harmanpreet Kaur:
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Speaking in regards to the recreation, India thrashed South Africa by 10 wickets to attract stage within the sequence. South Africa simply couldn’t recuperate after the early setbacks and have been bowled out for simply 84 runs inside 18 overs. Barring Brits, no different South African batter may contact the 20-run mark.
For India, Vastrakar starred with the ball, taking 4 wickets for simply 13 runs whereas Radha Yadav claimed 3 wickets for six runs. With the bat, India chased down the whole inside 11 overs with out dropping any wickets. Opener Smriti Mandhana led the cost with the bat, scoring an unbeaten 54 off 40 balls with Shafali Verma scored 27 not out.
Earlier, India had whitewashed South Africa within the three-match ODI sequence earlier than profitable the one-off Take a look at as properly. Harmanpreet Kaur & Co. will now be participating within the Ladies’s Asia Cup T20, scheduled to be performed from July 19 to twenty-eight in Sri Lanka.
