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- Captain Harmanpreet’s brilliant century in the second ODI against England
- Harmanpreet scored 143 runs with the help of 18 for 4 sixes
- Second highest score by an Indian women’s team in ODIs
Harmanpreet Kaur completed her century with the help of 12 fours and one six in 100 balls. He played an unbeaten innings of 143 runs in the match. Meanwhile, Harmanpreet hit 18 fours and 4 sixes in 111 balls.
Second highest score in ODIs
The second match of the three-match ODI series between India and England women’s cricket team is being played at the St Lawrence Ground on Wednesday. After losing the toss in this match, the Indian team, who came to bat first, made a huge score of 333 runs for 5 wickets in the allotted 50 overs. This is the second highest score by an Indian women’s team in the history of ODI cricket. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur, who scored her fifth career century in the second ODI against England, was instrumental in leading India to this score. This is India’s highest score against England in women’s ODI cricket. Earlier, India scored 281 runs against England in 2017 World Cup. It is also the highest score by any team in women’s ODI cricket against England.
Explosive batting from the captain
Harmanpreet Kaur completed her century with the help of 12 fours and one six in 100 balls. He played an unbeaten innings of 143 runs in the match. Meanwhile, Harmanpreet hit 18 fours and 4 sixes in 111 balls. India added 80 runs in the last five overs thanks to the captain’s explosive batting and scored 333 runs for the loss of five wickets in 50 overs. Pooja Vastrakar contributed 18(16) and Deepti Sharma 15(09).
Hurley scored a fifty in the first ODI
Called to bat after losing the toss, India did not get off to a good start and opener Shefali Verma (08) once again returned to the pavilion early. Smriti Mandhana continued her fine form with 40 off 51 balls and put on a 54-run partnership with Yastika Bhatia (26) for the second wicket. After the dismissals of Smriti and Yastika, Harmanpreet took the lead and put on a massive 113-run partnership with Harleen for the fourth wicket. Hurley scored his maiden ODI fifty, scoring 58 runs off 72 balls with five fours and two sixes.
Harmanpreet scored his fifth ODI century
After Harleen returned to the pavilion, Harmanpreet changed the pace of the innings and completed his fifth ODI century. Harmanpreet hit 18 fours and four sixes in an unbeaten innings of 143 off 111 balls. For England, Lauren Bell, Kate Cross, Freya Kemp, Charlotte Dean and Sophie Eccleston took one wicket each. Kemp (10 overs, 82 runs) and Bale (10 overs, 79 runs) proved costly for England.
