Delhi: In the second ODI held in Hobart, Australia women’s cricket team defeated India by 5 wickets. With this victory, Australia has taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in this series. In this match, Harmanpreet Kaur and Company, batting first, scored 251 runs losing 9 wickets. In the reply innings, Australia achieved the target by losing 5 wickets in just the 37th over. The final match of the series will be played in Hobart on 1 March.

Georgia Wall scored a century

The host team did not face any problem in chasing the target of 252 runs. However, the team’s start was not good. The opening pair of Alyssa Healy and Phoebe Litchfield could only add 21 runs for the first wicket. Kashvi Gautam gave the first success to the Indian team.

After the early fall of the first wicket, Lichfield took charge with Georgia Wall. There was a century partnership between the two for the second wicket. Kranti Gaur broke this pair by bowling Lichfield. Lichfield played an important inning of 80 runs in 62 balls with the help of 11 fours and 1 six.

Shortly after his dismissal, Wall completed his century. This was Wall’s second century in the ODI format. She was out after scoring 101 runs on 82 balls, which included 13 fours and 1 six. Wall’s wicket fell on the score of 222. After this, an important inning of 31 runs came from the bat of Beth Mooney. In the 37th over, Ashley Gardner returned with an unbeaten 19 runs to give the team victory.

Kashvi and Deepti got 2 wickets each

For India, Kashvi and Deepti Sharma took 2-2 wickets. At the same time, Gaur had a success.

Pratika Rawal and Harmanpreet Kaur scored half-centuries

Whereas, if we talk about the innings of the Indian cricket team, opener Pratika Rawal and captain Harmanpreet Kaur were the players who scored the most runs. Pratika scored 52 runs in 81 balls with the help of 6 fours. At the same time, Harmanpreet scored 54 runs in 70 balls with the help of 2 fours and 1 six. Apart from these two, Smriti Mandhana scored a useful inning of 31 runs. However, these innings could not help the team.

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