Trendy opener Smriti Mandhana prolonged her purple patch with an aesthetic knock earlier than pacer Renuka Thakur excelled with the brand new ball as India outplayed a self-destructing West Indies by a file 211 runs within the first Girls’s ODI in Vadodara on Sunday. India posted 314 for 9 after Mandhana made a positive 91 off 102 balls. The launch pad was supplied by the left-handed opener for the middle-order to go large and that’s what the likes of Harmanpreet Kaur (34 off 23), Harleen Deol (44 off 50), Richa Ghosh (26 off 12) and Jemimah Rodrigues (31 off 19) did to take India previous 300.
The West Indies had been extraordinary to say the least of their response as a few of their batters gifted wickets to the dominating hosts.
They had been finally all out for 103 in 26.2 overs with Renuka selecting her maiden five-wicket haul in ODIs. It was India’s largest win over the West Indies by way of runs.
The second ODI of the three-match collection will probably be performed right here on Tuesday.
Qiana Joseph was run out on the primary ball of the run chase as she inexplicably struggled to finish a regulation single from the non-striker’s finish, leaving skipper Hayley Mathews in disbelief.
Mathews too departed 12 balls later, nicking a large supply from Renuka who bought the in-swing entering into her first spell. When younger pacer Titas Sadhu castled Rashad Williams, the West Indies slipped to 11 for 4 and the sport was pretty much as good as over.
Renuka’s fourth wicket diminished the guests to 34 for six as Shabika Gajnabi couldn’t join a full in-swinging ball.
Earlier, Mandhana, who recorded a 50-plus rating for the fifth time in as many innings, bought the majority of the runs in her 110-run stand alongside debutant Pratika Rawal (40 off 69).
After dropping hard-hitting Shafali Verma, India have tried a number of batters to open alongside Mandhana and on Sunday it was the flip of Delhi cricketer Pratika, who batted at a strike price of 57.97.
The 24-year-old was additionally dropped at mid-off when she was batting on three within the tenth over. Her 4 boundaries got here on the leg-side as she employed the sweep a number of instances.
Mandhana, on the different finish, entertained the gang along with her trademark pictures together with a canopy drive and pull.
India modified gears after the arrival of fit-again skipper Harmanpreet who struck at near 150 to offer the innings a well timed transfer on.
The momentum was carried by Richa and Rodrigues who has been in high type of late.
For the West Indies, the choose of the bowlers was left-arm spinner Zaida James who took 5 wickets for 45 runs in eight overs.
India might have gotten much more within the loss of life overs however the final three overs solely yielded 20 runs with James selecting three wickets within the closing over.
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