India handed South Africa a six-wicket thrashing to finish a 3-0 sweep of the ODI sequence, on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium right here on Sunday.
Chasing 216, the host romped residence with greater than 9 overs to spare, with Smriti Mandhana including one other superb chapter (90, 83b, 11×4) to her famed e book of batting artwork. If not for a top-edge that landed within the fingers of the short-fine fielder, it might have introduced a 3rd consecutive century, a stand-out achievement even in a trailblazing profession as hers.
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Even 10 runs brief, the knock was simply as dazzling, as Smriti drove, clipped and steered the ball effortlessly, guaranteeing that for the 15,000 adoring followers who had gathered to look at her, there can be no falsification of expectations.
Priya Punia, in for D. Hemalatha, made a sizeable contribution (28, 40b, 3×4, 1×6), and so did skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (42, 48b, 2×4). However for a second straight match, opener Shafali Verma received a begin (25, 39b, 4×4), however didn’t make it rely, together with her penchant for hitting on the up proving deadly.
Laura Wolvaardt
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Laura Wolvaardt
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Earlier, South Africa, which opted to bat, started splendidly, with captain Laura Wolvaardt (61, 57b, 4×7) and Tazmin Brits (38, 66b, 2×4, 1×6) placing on 102 runs, a giant improve from the best of 14 this sequence. However Wolvaardt’s dismissal, by way of a pointy catch by speedster Arundhati Reddy off her personal bowling, triggered a collapse.
Brits sprinted for a non-existent single and was run out, whereas Anneke Bosch fell to a different wonderful caught-and-bowled effort by Arundhati (2/36), with the latter’s palm seeming as huge as a baseball mitt. And when Shreyanka Patil — who changed leggie Asha Sobhana — despatched again star batter Marizanne Kapp, the Proteas had been decreased to 120 for 4.
There have been small pockets of resistance from the likes of Nadine de Klerk (26, 46b) and Mieke de Ridder (26 n.o., 31b) that helped South Africa bat out the complete quota of overs and add almost 100 extra runs. However they did nothing apart from delay the inevitable.