IND-W vs SA-W: While the Indian men's team is playing the T20 World Cup 2024 in the West Indies, on the other hand, the Indian women's team is playing a three-match ODI series with South Africa at home. The second match of the ODI series was played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, in which the Indian women's team won by four runs against South Africa. With this win, India has taken a 2-0 lead.

India defeated South Africa by 143 runs in the first match of the three-match ODI series. In the thrilling match held at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday, June 19, two batsmen from each team scored centuries.

Smriti and Harman's amazing performance in IND-W vs SA-W match

• In this match played between India vs South Africa (IND-W vs SA-W), the African team won the toss and bowled first.
• This decision of his team proved to be very wrong. Because batting first, India scored 325 runs for the loss of 3 wickets
• Smriti Mandhana and captain Harmanpreet proved the decision of bowling first wrong.
• Smriti Mandhana continued her stellar form, scoring 136 off 120 balls, while skipper Harmanpreet Kaur scored 103 off 88 balls.
• Due to the excellent performance of both, Team India scored 325 runs.
  Talking about bowling, Nonkululeko Mlaba took 2 wickets against India. Apart from him, Masabata Klaas took one wicket.

South Africa also performed well

• South Africa (IND-W vs SA-W) performed well while chasing the target given by India.
• While chasing the target of 325 runs, South African players also scored 2 centuries. South Africa made a great comeback and captain Laura Wolvaardt (135* in 135 balls) and Marizanne Kapp (94 in 114 balls) played brilliant innings.
• Due to this brilliant innings of both, at one time it seemed that the match would slip out of India's hands.
• But when South Africa needed 11 runs in the last over, medium pacer Pooja Vastrakar bowled brilliantly and took two wickets for just five runs.
  This over became the reason for South Africa's defeat.

Volwart and Cap surprised with their stormy innings

• Let us tell you that Wolvaardt and Kapp made a partnership of 184 runs for the fifth wicket.
• This great partnership between the two happened when their team's score was 67 runs for 4 wickets.
  When Kapp got out in the 43rd over, India (IND-W vs SA-W) tried to increase the pressure.
• But Wolvaardt kept hitting shots. However, when six runs were needed from the last four balls, Vastrakar was caught by Nadine de Klerk for 28 off 22 balls and was dismissed by Nondumiso Shangase off the very next ball.
• After this, on the basis of byes and dot balls, South Africa could only score 321 runs for 6 wickets. As a result, the visiting team lost the second ODI by 4 runs.

Pooja Vastrakar and Deepti's bowling saved Team India's honor

• Talking about bowling against South Africa, Pooja Vastrakar and Deepti Sharma took 2-2 wickets each.
• Apart from her, Smriti Mandhana also took a wicket.
  Now the final between India and South Africa (IND-W vs SA-W) will be played on 23 June in Bengaluru.
• After this, the only Test and a three-match T20 series will be played in Chennai.

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