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Richa Ghosh became the Indian player to score fifty on the fewest balls in T-20.
India Women scored 217 runs for 4 wickets in the third T20 against West Indies. This is the team’s highest score in T-20. Richa Ghosh scored fifty on just 18 balls, this is equal to the record of fastest fifty in T-20. Indian captain Smriti Mandhana scored 77 runs.
Effie Fletcher, Aliyah Alleyne, Deandra Dottin and Shinelle Henry took 1 wicket each from West Indies. The 3rd T20 series is tied at 1-1. India won the first match and West Indies won the second match.
Uma Chhetri could not even open an account West Indies won the toss and chose bowling on Thursday at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. India lost the wicket of Uma Chhetri in the very first over. She couldn’t even open an account. Here Mandhana took the innings with Jemimah Rodriguez. There was a partnership of 98 runs between the two.
Jemimah Rodriguez and Smriti Mandhana made a partnership of 98 runs.
Mandhana’s third consecutive fifty Jemima was out after scoring 39 runs. After him Raghavi Bisht made a partnership of 44 runs with Mandhana. Mandhana was out after scoring 77 runs on 47 balls. He hit 13 fours and 1 six. This was his third consecutive fifty in the series, he had also scored fifty in the first and second T20.
Mandhana lost her wicket in the 15th over itself, if she had stayed till the 20th over, she would have completed her century. He was caught by Dottin at mid-off by Shinnelle Henry.
Smriti Mandhana played an inning of 77 runs, she scored a fifty in the third consecutive T-20.
Richa scored the fastest fifty After Mandhana, wicketkeeper batsman Richa Ghosh came out to bat. He scored an inning of 54 runs in just 21 balls with the help of 5 sixes and 3 fours. Richa scored fifty on 18 balls, which is the record of fifty on fewest balls in T-20 history.
Before Richa, New Zealand’s Sophie Devine and Australia’s Phoebe Litchfield have also scored half-centuries on 18 balls each. Effie Fletcher, Aliyah Alleyne, Deandra Dottin and Shinelle Henry took 1 wicket each from West Indies.
Richa Ghosh scored fifty in just 18 balls.
India made its highest score Raghavi Bisht remained not out after scoring 31 runs. In front of him, Sajeevan Sajna hit a four on the last ball and took India’s score to 217 runs. This is the team’s biggest score in T-20, before this the team had scored 201 runs for 5 wickets against UAE in the Asia Cup this year.
India had scored 195 runs against West Indies in the first match of the series, which is the fourth highest score of the team. Argentina holds the record for the highest score in Women’s T-20, the team had scored 427 runs against Chile in 2023. Among the top-8 teams, England Women’s team has made a record of 250 runs against South Africa in 2018.
