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India vs Australia Highlights Commonwealth Games 2022: AUS-W win by 3 wickets vs IND-W in opener, Renuka Thakur takes 4
Commonwealth Games 2022 Highlights India Women vs Australia Women: Australia defeated India by three wickets at Edgbaston on Friday. Follow IND-W vs AUS-W Highlights here.
IND-W vs AUS-W Commonwealth Games 2022 Highlights: With women's cricket making its debut, Australia defeat India by three wickets in their Commowealth Games 2022 (CWG 2022) opener, at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Friday. An unbeaten match-winning knock of 52 runs off 35 balls by Ashleigh Gardner helped Australia reach 157/7 in 19 overs, succesfully chasing down a target of 155 runs. Meanwhile, Renuka Singh was in hot form and took four wickets for India. Initially, Harmanpreet Kaur hammered 52 runs off 34 balls to help India post 154 for eight in 20 overs, with Jess Jonassen taking a four-wicket haul for Australia....Read More
Squads
India: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shafali Verma, S. Meghana, Taniyaa Sapna Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Yastika Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Deepti Sharma, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Radha Yadav, Harleen Deol and Sneh Rana.
Australia: Meg Lanning (captain), Rachael Haynes (vice-captain), Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Grace Harris, Alyssa Healy (wicketkeeper), Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Beth Mooney, Tahlia McGrath, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland and Amanda-Jade Wellington.
IND-W vs AUS-W Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: India win toss, opt to bat
India captain Harmanpreet has won the toss and opted to bat.
IND-W vs AUS-W Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Weather report
The temperature will be around 13 degrees Celsius during the evening and there is 7% chance of rainfall during daytime.
IND-W vs AUS-W Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: No Pooja Vastrakar for India!
Pooja was forced to stay back in India after testing positive for Covid-1, a day before departure for Birmingham.
On Pooja, Harmanpreet said, "She has been doing well for the past one year. Normally senior players give a lot of ideas but she came up with this and spoke about it and I really liked it."
IND-W vs AUS-W Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Need to play with ‘killing attitude’, says Harmanpreet Kaur
"During the Sri Lanka tour, we had a meeting with the players. I asked the girls how they want the team to play. Pooja gave a good answer about the killing attitude", Harmanpreet said during the pre-match conference.
"Right now we are working on that whether we are training or playing. Everyone is talking about that in the team. All players have bought into this and Pooja is someone who comes up with funny ideas all the time", she further added.
IND-W vs AUS-W Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Head-to-head
Both sides have faced each other 23 times with Australia coming out on top with 16 wins, compared to India's six. Meanwhile one match has been abandoned.
IND-W vs AUS-W Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Hello and good afternoon everyone!
Hello and good afternoon everyone! Welcome to our live coverage of CWG's women's cricket debut as Harmanpreet Kaur's India take on Australia at Edgbaston. Stay tuned for some exciting cricket folks!
