Friday, 29 January 2016

SPORTS,


Indian women's cricket team script historic series win in Australia


Indian women's cricket team has created history as they registered their T20 series win against Australia on Friday.

They defeated Aussies on the basis of the Duckworth-Lewis method.

In the second Twenty-20 international Match being played in Australia, India defeated Kangaroos by ten wickets.

Indian team skipper Mithali Raj, after winning the toss asked Australia for bat this morning.

Australia scored 128 for the loss of eight wickets in their allotted 18 overs.

Replying to the Australian score, India, replying to this scored 69 for no loss in 9.1 overs after being set a ten over target of 66 under the D/L method.

It is good batting performance by Indian skipper Mithali Raj and opener S Mandhana, who scored unbeaten knocks of 37 and 22 respectively.

They remained in the crease sharing 69-run partnership.

The top scorers for Australia were skipper M M Lanning with 49 and J L Jonassen with 27.

As far as bowling performance is concerned, Julan Goswami and R S Gayakwad claimed two wickets each, while Poonam Yadav and H Kaur claimed a wicket each for India.

The Indian women has been leading the three-match series 2-0.

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