Sports Desk- The Women’s T20 World Cup (WT20WC2020) has begun. The first match of the tournament was played between India and Australia (AUSW vs INDW) in Sydney. The Indian women’s team made a debut in the World Cup by defeating Australia by 17 runs in the first match. The match started at 1.30 pm Indian time. The women of Australia won the toss and opted for bowling.
India women team – 132/4 (20)
Australia women team – 115 all out
Player of the match – Poonam Yadav
T20 World Cup has been held 6 times so far. India has not reached the final even once, while Australia has won the title 4 times at most. The last time he defeated England by 8 wickets in the final. India has reached the semi-finals 3 times (2009, 2010, 2018).
If you see the performance of the Indian women’s team in the World Cup, then they have played 26 matches so far. Out of this, he won in 13 matches and lost in as many matches. In this sense, India has a 50% success rate in the World Cup.
India has to play 4 matches in group stage
India has been placed in Group A in this tournament. He has four matches to play in the league stage. It will start in Australia on 21 February. After this, India has to play Bangladesh on 24 February, New Zealand on 27 February, Sri Lanka on 29 February.
Australia Women Squad
Alyssa Healy (wk), Beth Mooney, Ashleigh Gardner, Meg Lanning (c), Ellyse Perry, Rachael Haynes, Annabel Sutherland, Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Molly Strano, Megan Schutt
India Women Squad
Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Deepti Sharma, Veda Krishnamurthy, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad
