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India defeated the world champion by 59 runs and avenged the World Cup defeat.


India Women vs New Zealand Women ODI match: Indian women’s cricket team has defeated New Zealand by 59 runs in the first match of the three-match ODI series. of Ahmedabad Narendra Modi In this match played at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Team India had set a target of 228 runs for New Zealand, but the Kiwi team could only score 168 runs in reply. Many players including Deepti Sharma and Jemimah Rodriguez made important contributions to the victory of the Indian team. Smriti Mandhana again failed to play a big innings, scoring only 5 runs.

Harmanpreet Kaur was not playing in this match, so Smriti Mandhana captained India. Team India won the toss and chose to bat first. The team had a very bad start as Smriti Mandhana got out after scoring only 5 runs, while Shefali Verma scored 33 runs in 22 balls in a flamboyant manner but could not convert this score into a big innings. Wicketkeeper batsman Yastika Bhatia contributed 37 runs and Jemimah Rodriguez also contributed 35 runs. India could not even play the full 50 overs and in the 45th over itself, the entire team was all out after scoring 227 runs.

Took revenge from New Zealand

Team India also made a good start in bowling because the Kiwi team had lost the first three wickets till the score of 46. On the Ahmedabad pitch, both the teams were seen struggling in batting and no player was able to score even a half-century in the entire match. The maximum runs for New Zealand were scored by Brook Halliday, who scored 39 runs. For the Kiwi team, Amelia Kerr took 4 wickets in bowling and also played an unbeaten inning of 25 runs in batting, but could not save her team from a 59-run defeat.

Let us remind you that in the recently concluded Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, New Zealand became the champion, while Team India could not even enter the knockout stage. In fact, India was defeated by New Zealand by 58 runs in the first match of the group stage and later this defeat proved very heavy for Team India.

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