India vs Australia Highlights Commonwealth Games 2022: AUS-W win by 3 wickets vs IND-W in opener, Renuka Thakur takes 4

India-W vs AUS-W Commonwealth Games 2022 Highlights: With women’s cricket making its debut, Australia defeat India by three wickets in their Commonwealth Games 2022 (CWG 2022) opener, at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Friday. An unbeaten match-winning knock of 52 runs off 35 balls by Ashleigh Gardner helped Australia reach 157/7 in 19 overs, succesfully chasing down a target of 155 runs. Meanwhile, Renuka Singh was in hot form and took four wickets for India. Initially, Harmanpreet Kaur hammered 52 runs off 34 balls to help India post 154 for eight in 20 overs, with Jess Jonassen taking a four-wicket haul for Australia

Indian women’s team’s right-arm medium fast bowler Renuka Singh has already broken the back of the Australian women’s team by giving them the first four big blows in the Powerplay.

Indian women’s team’s right-arm medium fast bowler Renuka Singh has already broken the back of the Australian women’s team by giving them the first four big blows in the Powerplay. Chasing the target of 155 runs given by India, the opposition team has lost four important wickets for 34 runs in 4.1 overs.

The players to be dismissed for Australia in this match are wicketkeeper-opener Alyssa Healy (0), Beth Mooney (10), Captain Meg Lanning (8) and Tahlia McGrath (14). Renuka Singh has done the job of returning all these players of the Australian women’s team to the pavilion so far. She has bowled four overs for the team and spent 18 runs and picked up all these wickets.

If the Australian women’s team is as much as this match, they will still have to score 121 runs. The team has six wickets left. For the Kangaroo women’s team, Rachael Haynes (7) and Ashley Gardner (5) are currently in the fray and are working to groom the innings. At the same time, if the Indian women’s team has to take this match to their name, then they will have to take the wickets of the opposition team at regular intervals.

Earlier today, Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and elected to bat first. Batting first, the Indian team managed to score 154 runs for the loss of eight wickets in the stipulated overs. For the team, Captain Kaur top-scored with a half-century of 52 runs. During this time, eight fours and a six came off his bat in 34 balls.

Apart from Captain Harmanpreet Kaur, opener Shafali Verma was also seen in colour. He opened the innings for the team and scored a quickfire innings of 48 runs in 33 balls. However, she missed out on scoring a half-century by just two runs. Apart from these two players, Smriti Mandhana contributed 24 runs.