India produced a clinical all-round performance to thrash hosts South Africa by 88 runs in the first one-dayer of the ICC Women’s Championship at Diamond<\/p>\n
Oval on Monday.<\/p>\n
Opener Smriti Mandhana (84 off 98) scored a strokeful fifty while pace duo of Jhulan Goswami (4\/24) and Shikha Pandey (3\/23) shared seven wickets between<\/p>\n
them to emerge as the architects of India’s victory.<\/p>\n
Electing to bat, left-handed batswoman Mandhana hit eight boundaries and a six in her 98-ball innings and shared a 99-run stand with skipper Mithali Raj (45) to<\/p>\n
help India post 213 for seven in their allotted 50 overs.<\/p>\n
Chasing 214 for a win, South Africa failed to stitch partnerships and kept losing wickets at regular intervals.<\/p>\n
Skipper D van Niekerk top-scored for South Africa with a 41. Pandey rocked the hosts early by removing opener Lizelle Lee (3), wicket-keeper Trisha Chetty (5)<\/p>\n
and Mignon du Preez
\n(0) to leave them at 23\/3 in 9.2 overs.<\/p>\n
Spinner Poonam Yadav (2\/22) then accounted for the other opener Laura Wolvaardt (21), while Goswami trapped Chloe Tryon LBW as South Africa lost half<\/p>\n
their side in 22.5 overs.<\/p>\n
Marizanne Kapp (23) and Niekerk tried to resurrect the run chase but Yadav sent the former back to the hut and left- arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad removed<\/p>\n
the home side skipper
\nafter they reached the 100-mark.<\/p>\n
Goswami then mopped up the tail, dismissing the remaining three batswomen — Ismail (4), A Khaka (2) and M Klaas (1) — to complete the win.<\/p>\n
Earlier electing to bat, India lost their first wicket when Ayabonga Khaka dismissed opener Punam Raut (19) with Shabnim Ismail taking the catch. Mandhana and<\/p>\n
Raj then steadied the ship before the opener was removed by Khaka with Sune Luus taking the catch.<\/p>\n
Next over, Masabata Klaas got rid of Raj as India slipped to 155\/3 in 36.1 overs. South Africa then effected two run outs, dismissing V Krishnamurthy (2) and<\/p>\n
DB Sharma (6) to
\nfurther reduce the visitors to 168-5 in 42 overs. H Kaur and wicket-keeper S Verma then added 27 runs before the former was trapped by Kapp in the 48th over.<\/p>\n
Two balls later, Verma was caught by Khaka off Kapp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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