ICC Women’s T20 World Cup: India paralyze shielding champion Australia by 17 runs in the opener

Indian ladies leg-spinner Poonam Yadav showed an outstanding show with the ball to help the Women dressed in Blue stagger safeguarding champion Australia by 17 runs in the opening match of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s T20 World Cup at Sydney Showground Stadium on Friday.

Guarding a low aggregate of 133 runs, Poonam end up being the tormentor-in-boss for India as she created daring and splendid leg-turn bowling to assist her with siding pack out four-time victor Australia for 115 runs in 19.5 overs. She completed the match with fantastic figures of four for 19.

Other than Poonam, Shikha Pandey additionally asserted three wickets for the Women dressed in Blue, while Rajeshwari Gayakwad likewise contributed with a wicket. Healy (51) and Ashleigh Gardner (34) were the top scorers for Australia.

Prior, India was looking strong so far as they arrived at 40/0 out of four overs in the wake of being approached to bat first. Be that as it may, they lost Shafali Verma (29), Smriti Mandhana (10) and Jemimah Rodrigues (26) with hardly a pause in between to diminish to 47-3. Along these lines, Deepti Sharma crushed an essential thump of 49 runs off 46 balls to take India 132/4 in their stipulated 20 overs.

Prominently, this was the least all out India has safeguarded against Australia in a T20 World Cup coordinate.