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India vs Bangladesh: Focus on batting as Indian women eye 3-0 sweep

Harmanpreet Kaur and team have sealed the T20I series 2-0

Our Bureau Mirpur Published 13.07.23, 08:21 AM
England Test captain Ben Stokes in the Centre Court stands, watching Ons Jabeur’s quarter-final win over defending Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina on Wednesday.

England Test captain Ben Stokes in the Centre Court stands, watching Ons Jabeur’s quarter-final win over defending Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina on Wednesday. File photo

The series already in the bag, India Women will look to get their batting right in Thursday’s inconsequential T20I against Bangladesh here.

Harmanpreet Kaur and team have sealed the T20I series 2-0. But the final game is a chance for them to effect a rare 3-0 sweep away from home.

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For that to happen, India need to put up a much better performance with the bat.

In Tuesday’s second T20I, the visitors were absolutely mediocre as they managed only 95/8.

That Bangladesh were bowled out for 87 was purely due to some good, tight bowling by the Indian spinners, while the home team batters choked as well in the last couple of overs.

Big-hitting opener Shafali Verma will once again be under the lens of the selectors after her twin failures in the series.

While her 14-ball 19 eventually turned out to be the team’s highest score in the collapse, the young batter is well aware of her capabilities and the expectations from her and has another chance to get to scoring big runs before the ODI leg of the tour starting on Sunday.

Senior pro and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana too will be keen to get going after getting dismissed for a run-a-ball 13 on Tuesday.

The Indian openers have failed to fire together in the series so far and will be gunning to make use of another opportunity that awaits them on Thursday.

So is the case of Jemimah Rodrigues, who also could not get going and struggled a lot in the middle while consuming as many as 21 balls for her eight runs.

India will play the Bangladesh Women in three ODIs, the last being on July 22.

Match starts: 1.30pm IST

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