'Caution removed, accident occurred'… In many places in India, these warnings are written on hoardings or sign boards on the roadside, so that drivers remain alert and avoid any kind of accident. Despite this, accidents still occur because such warnings are often ignored. In cricket too, a similar warning is given to every player since childhood to always be cautious, whether it is batting, bowling or fielding, because a little carelessness not only causes loss to the player but also to the team. Just such a loss was suffered by the captain of Women's T20 World Champion team New Zealand, Sophie Devine, who had to bear the brunt of carelessness by losing her wicket in the first ODI against India.

Within just 4 days of the end of the T20 World Cup, the New Zealand cricket team has come on a tour of India, where its ODI series with Team India started. In the first match of the series at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Thursday 24 October, Team India gave a target of 228 runs to the Kiwi team but in response to this, New Zealand's batting failed from the beginning. In such a situation, the team needed a strong innings from its experienced captain and veteran batsman Sophie Devine but she got out in a very strange manner and returned to the pavilion.

All this happened in the 12th over of New Zealand's innings when Indian spinner Deepti Sharma was bowling. The last ball of this over was defended by Divine and Deepti Sharma immediately ran towards short covers and picked up the ball. It was only here that Deepti showed wisdom and took advantage of Sophie's carelessness. Deepti immediately picked up the ball and threw it towards the wicketkeeper who immediately blew away the stumps. Sophie Devine's slow reaction cost her dearly as she could not immediately return to the crease and was run out. Seeing the reaction of the Kiwi captain, it seemed that she did not expect the ball to come back like this and hence she became a bit careless.

Sharp presence of mind produces a big wicket!

New Zealand lose their third in the chase as Sophie Devine is run-out.

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Sophie Devine was run out after scoring only 2 runs and New Zealand had lost 3 wickets till 46 runs. Before this, Team India batted first. Like the T20 World Cup, the batting of the Indian team, which came without captain Harmanpreet Kaur, disappointed here too. Star opener Smriti Mandhana, who was handling the captaincy, managed to score only 5 runs, while Shefali Verma could not convert the fast start into a big innings. In the middle order, Jemimah Rodriguez, Deepti Sharma and debutant Tejal Hasanbis played small but important innings and took India to this score. Kiwi spinner Amelia Carr, who was the player of the match and player of the tournament of the T20 World Cup final, took 4 wickets.