India 83 for 0 (Mandhana 55*, Shafali 26*) beat Bangladesh 80 for 8 (Renuka 3-10, Radha 3-14, Deepti 1-14) by 10 wickets
Renuka stings Bangladesh in powerplay
Renuka’s type had been on a decline main into the Girls’s Asia Cup. She was omitted for 2 of the three T20Is in opposition to South Africa after an unremarkable 4-0-42-0 in her solely outing in that sequence. Her early repute as a powerplay swing queen was seemingly fading, particularly on flat decks.
With younger Arundhati Reddy difficult for her spot – it is probably India will most frequently accommodate just one different seamer alongside Pooja Vastrakar of their first XI – Renuka wanted a giant match right here. On Friday, she delivered. Renuka’s powerplay salvo left Bangladesh with no solutions, her three wickets in three overs upsetting Bangladesh’s plans of occurring an all-out assault.
Dilara Akter muscled Renuka for a six off the third ball, however holed out to deep sq. off the fourth. Ishma Tanjim bailed out of a slog to get a forefront to Tanuja Kanwar at quick third, and Murshida Khatun mistimed a heave to midwicket two balls after being reprieved by Deepti Sharma at slip.
Bangladesh had been decreased to 21 for 3 inside 5 overs.
Nigar resists, Radha thrives
From overs six to 9, Bangladesh managed a solitary boundary, hit by Nigar Sultana, and performed out 19 dots. They have been in search of the discharge they merely did not get as a result of India’s bowlers saved coming at them.
Launched within the tenth over, Radha struck off her very first supply when Rumana Ahmed, Bangladesh’s second-most skilled batter, was put out of her distress when she performed throughout a straight ball to be bowled.
Nonetheless, Bangladesh tried to maintain attacking. Rabeya Khan’s try to flat-bat Pooja Vastrakar led to a miscue that was brilliantly taken by Shafali Verma at mid-on within the eleventh over.
This compelled Nigar to shelve any plans of a counter-attack, the main target rapidly shifting to survival mode in opposition to the supremely-skilled trio of Deepti, Tanuja Kanwar and Radha Yadav – every very completely different from the opposite. Deepti saved them quiet with flight, Kanwar acquired the ball to float and switch, whereas Radha troubled them with deliveries that did not flip.
It was solely within the 14th over, when Nigar was joined by Shorna Akter that they managed some sort of a transfer on – overs 17 to 19 introduced 27. Then Radha produced a double-wicket maiden within the twentieth, wherein she had Nigar and Nahida Akter to complete with 3 for 14.
The Mandhana-Shafali occasion
Mandhana challenged herself to take fielders on and cleared them at will, Shafali swept seamer Marufa Akter off her lengths in entrance of sq., and the boundaries flowed. Mandhana handled the small crowd to her trademark drives, whereas Shafali shovelled and flat-batted the bowlers.
Bangladesh missed two probabilities on the sphere. First a run out within the fifth when Mandhana was ambling down, with Nahida firing a wayward throw with nobody backing up on the bowler’s finish. Within the ninth, Nahida grassed a sitter at long-off to reprieve Shafali. And between these two, there was additionally a Mandhana reprieve off a no-ball.
Mandhana continued on her joyride, hitting three back-to-back fours to get to a half-century and in addition seal a victory that was by no means unsure from as early because the powerplay in Bangladesh’s innings.
Shashank Kishore is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
