Dominant India win inaugural U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup

India 69 for 3 (Trisha 24, Tiwari 24*, Baker 1-13) beat England 68 (MacDonald-Gay 19, Sadhu 2-6, Chopra 2-13) by seven wickets

Tiwari, Trisha guarantee minimal hiccups

Chasing 69, Shafali bought going with an enormous six over long-off off left-arm spinner Sophia Smale. She cleared her entrance leg and tonked her excessive and lengthy. But legspinner Hannah Baker, opening the bowling with Smale, prised out Shafali.

Baker impressed all through the event, various her flight and lengths. She tossed one up on off, engaging Shafali to go excessive however giving her little room to get below. What resulted was a miscue in direction of mid-on, the place Alexa Stonehouse dived low to her left to seize that. Soon England captain Grace Scrivens had Shweta Sehrawat, the main run-getter within the competitors, sky one to quick positive leg to create transient flutters.

But one-drop Tiwari after which Trisha walked out to calm the nerves. They noticed off the testing spells from Baker, Smale and Scrivens, with a little bit of fortune, too. Tiwari had simply hit a wonderful lofted extra-cover drive to get off the mark on her tenth ball when Baker floated one fuller and wider. She could not resist and went for the drive away from the physique solely to edge it to slide, the place Scrivens could not dangle on.

Thereon, Tiwari and Trisha tightened up and by no means provided any probability and scored in opposition to England’s all-spin assault until the tenth over, once they have been 48 for two. Trisha then greeted right-arm quick bowler Ellie Anderson with back-to-back boundaries earlier than hitting the left-arm seam of Stonehouse for one more 4 within the subsequent over. With three wanted, although, Trisha’s ungainly heave noticed her be clear bowled.

But Tiwari was too set – and skilled, having led Madhya Pradesh to the Under-19 home T20 title – to let issues slip from there.

England falter with the bat for the second successive sport

England have been served properly by their opening pair of Liberty Heap and Scrivens by way of the event however Heap fell early similar to she did within the semi-final. Sadhu bought a size ball to climb up and Heap ended up top-edging it for Sadhu to take a simple catch within the very first over of the match, after India opted to bowl.

Archana, opening the bowling as an alternative of India’s most well-liked alternative of left-arm spinner Mannat Kashyap, then struck to spin one previous Niamh Holland’s tried scoop to bowl her. She struck a telling blow by dismissing Scrivens, the one different participant aside from Sehwarat with over 250 runs within the event, cheaply, with Trisha taking a tumbling catch working in from long-off. Archana noticed Scrivens give her the cost and threw it wider due to which the batter could not management her stroke.

Soon, Chopra struck twice in two balls to have England stuttering at 43 for six within the twelfth over. She trapped Charis Pavely lbw earlier than Archana’s gorgeous one-hander at additional cowl noticed the again of Ryana MacDonald-Gay, England’s top-scorer for the day.

Smale then hit a few fours to push the rating up however was the final wicket to fall when she spooned a catch again to left-arm spinner Sonam Yadav. While England had efficiently defended 99 within the semi-final in opposition to Australia, 68 was too low a complete to do this.