{"id":56546,"date":"2019-03-06T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=56546"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:02:28","slug":"smriti-mandhana-and-co-look-to-end-five-match-losing-streak-in-t20is-against-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/smriti-mandhana-and-co-look-to-end-five-match-losing-streak-in-t20is-against-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Smriti Mandhana and Co look to end five-match losing streak in T20Is against England"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A desperate Indian women\u2019s team would aim to snap its \nfive-match losing streak in the second T20 International against England\n here on Thursday. India suffered a crushing 41-run loss to England in \nthe first T20 of the three-match series here on Sunday.<\/strong>

The\n loss, India\u2019s fifth in a row in the shortest format, meant the W V \nRaman-coached side has a lot of work to do before the T20 World Cup in \nAustralia early next year. India lost all their T20s in New Zealand \nafter winning the ODI series and things seems to be heading in a similar\n direction against England.

Chasing England\u2019s competitive 160 for\n four in the series opener, Indian batters cut a sorry figure to be \nrestricted to 119 for six.

After England had put on a competitive\n total, the onus was on India\u2019s top-order to do the job but the quartet \nof Harleen Deol, skipper Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and veteran \nMithali Raj failed to live to the expectations, seriously hurting the \nteam\u2019s cause.

The absence of a power-hitter like Harmanpreet Kaur\n in the run chase was felt immensely. The regular T20 captain is nursing\n an injury.

It was a rare failure from Mandhana, that too, on her\n captaincy debut considering the fact that she has been sublime form off\n late, plundering runs at will which earned her the ICC Woman Cricketer \nof the Year award.

In Kaur\u2019s absence, ODI captain Mithali was \nexpected to play a bigger role in the three T20s but she failed to seize\n the opportunity scoring just 7.

And come tomorrow, the \n36-year-old, who is likely to retire from the shortest format before the\n T20 World Cup in Australia next year, would like to make a strong \nstatement.

Veda Krishnamurthy, who made a comeback to the team, looked a pale shadow of herself, struggling to 15 off 25 balls.

Eventually,\n it was left to the lower-order to do the job and the likes of Shikha \nPandey (23 not out), Deepti Sharma (22 not out) and Arundhati Reddy (18)\n did try but the asking was too tall.

On the bowling front too, India were not up to the mark with the likes of Deepti, Arundhati and Radha Yadav leaking runs.

Medium\n pacer Shikha Pandey (1\/18) and leg-spinner Poonam Yadav (0\/18) were \neconomical but they would need support from their colleagues to keep \nEngland batters at bay.

On the other hand, Tammy Beaumont (62 off\n 57), skipper Heather Knight (40 off 20) and Danielle Wyatt (35) looked \nin great touch as England produced an all-round effort to get the better\n of the home team in the first T20.
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A desperate Indian women\u2019s team would aim to snap its five-match losing streak in the second T20 International against England here on Thursday. India suffered a crushing 41-run loss to England in the first T20 of the three-match series here on Sunday. The loss, India\u2019s fifth in a row in the shortest format, meant the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56548,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56546\/revisions\/56548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}