The indian women's cricket team has crushed west indies by 211 runs in the first ODI. Team india scored 314 runs while playing first, but in response the Caribbean team was reduced to just 103 runs. Smriti Mandhana made a big contribution to India's victory by playing an innings of 91 runs, on the other hand Renuka Singh took 5 wickets. Now in the three-match ODI series, the indian team has taken a 1-0 lead. During this match, the catch of captain Harmanpreet Kaur also became the center of discussion.
In this ODI match played at Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara, west indies won the toss and chose to bowl first. This decision proved costly for them because Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal gave Team india a great start by making an opening partnership of 110 runs. Smriti contributed 91 runs, while Pratika scored 40 runs. Apart from her, Harleen Deol scored 44 runs and captain Harmanpreet Kaur also scored 34 runs. Amidst all this, Jemima Rodrigues also dominated, who played a cameo innings of 31 runs in 19 balls and made a significant contribution in taking India's score beyond 300 runs.
west indies badly crushed
west indies had a very bad start while chasing the target of 315 runs. Both west indies openers Hayley Matthews and Kiana Joseph were out on a score of zero. The situation was such that half of the west indies team had returned to the pavilion by the score of 26. Sheman Campbell tried to avoid the defeat of his team by scoring 21 runs and Afy Fletcher scored 24 runs, but looking at the overall performance, the defeat of west indies was certain.
In the match, 7 west indies batsmen could not even touch the double digit mark in terms of runs. Renuka Thakur took 5 wickets in bowling for India. For this she was also selected as the Player of the Match. Apart from her, priya Mishra took 2 wickets, while Deepti Sharma and Titus Sadhu took one wicket each.
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