Jemima Rodrigues once again showed the power of her bat and played a brilliant innings and scored a half-century against the UAE, this is her second half-century in this Asia Cup.
Jemima Rodrigues scored second half-century in Asia Cup-2022. (BCCI Photo)
Indian women’s cricket team is currently playing the match of Asia Cup-2022 in Sylhet. She faces the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday and in this match once again Jemima Rodrigues has played a brilliant innings. He has scored a fine half-century against the United Arab Emirates. This is his second half-century in this tournament. India batted first in this match and scored 178 runs for the loss of five wickets.
Jemima handled the team in a difficult situation and Deepti Sharma supported her well. Both these batsmen made a great partnership and scored half-centuries, taking the team out of a difficult situation. Jemima Rodrigues scored an unbeaten 75 runs in this match and Deepti Sharma scored 64 runs.
Rodrigues and Deepti’s century partnership
The Indian team, who came to bat first, did not get a good start. He had lost his three wickets for 20 runs. Richa Ghosh could not even open the account. Meghna, who scored a half-century in the last match, could not take her innings beyond 10 runs. Daylan Hemlata also returned to the pavilion for two runs. But after this Rodrigues and Deepti got their feet and added runs quickly.
This partnership broke on a total score of 128. Deepti got out on the fifth ball of the 18th over. He hit five fours and two sixes in 49 balls. Rodrigues did not stop, she kept on scoring runs. He faced 45 balls and hit 11 fours in his unbeaten innings. Earlier, Rodrigues had scored 76 against Sri Lanka on October 1. There was a time when Rodrigues’s place in the team was not fixed and he had to go in and out of the team again and again, but in this Asia Cup, he has strengthened his claim by scoring two half-centuries and has handled the team’s middle order.
Pooja-Kiran supported
Pooja Vastrakar faced five balls and scored 11 runs with the help of a four and a six. Kiran Navgire returned unbeaten with Rodrigues after scoring 10 runs. He hit two fours while facing four balls.
UAE’s most successful bowler Mahika Gaur remained. He bowled four overs and took one wicket. Chhaya Mughal scored 31 runs in four overs and took one wicket. Esha Oja and Security Kota also took a wicket each. India has won both its matches before this and it will try to win this third match and make a hat-trick of victory. The team has changed in this match. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur is out and Smriti Mandhana is captaining the team in her place.