Harmanpreet Kaur’s Form With Bat In Focus As India Look To Salvage Pride In Final ODI vs Australia | Cricket News

Captain Harmanpreet Kaur’s type with the bat shall be in focus because the Indian Women’s crew appears to salvage satisfaction and finish a nine-match dropping streak at house towards a dominant Australia within the third and last ODI right here on Tuesday. Kaur has led her aspect admirably nicely in a protracted house season with a few historic leads to the Tests, however this era has additionally witnessed her battle with the bat. She has scored runs in double digits solely thrice in eight innings throughout codecs this season along with her highest being 49 towards England within the one-off Test final month.

In the historic win towards Australia within the one-off Test, Kaur was out for a duck in India’s first innings and he or she was not required to bat within the second essay. In the 2 ODIs towards Australia who’ve taken an unassailable 2-0 lead within the three-match sequence, her scores have been 9 and 5.

While India made the many of the beneficial house situations within the one-off Test, the house crew’s frailties have come to the fore once more in white-ball cricket within the final two ODIs.

If India have been odd with the ball within the first ODI whereby they misplaced by six wickets even after posting their highest-ever complete of 282 for 8 within the format, Kaur’s aspect dropped as many as seven catches within the second recreation, as Australia get away with a three-run win.

At the identical time, Richa Ghosh’s heroics within the second ODI — 96 off 113 balls (13 fours) in a stiff chase — and Jemimah Rodrigues’ consistency (82 and 44) have delivered the products with the bat for India.

Ghosh is India’s new discover in No. 3 and to have an aggressive batter within the prime order provides the hosts loads of firepower.

Pressure shall be on the likes of Amanjot Kaur and Deepti Sharma, who couldn’t end the sport for India regardless of the equation being virtually run-a-ball within the second ODI.

The cliched outdated adage of ‘catches win matches’ got here to the fore once more after India dropped no less than seven probabilities, and head coach Amol Muzumdar admitted after the sport that Kaur’s crew stays a piece in progress.

India’s defeat by six wickets within the first ODI and narrowly by three runs within the second prolonged their plight at house towards Australia, whom they haven’t crushed even as soon as within the 50-over format within the final 16 years since February 2007.

Muzumdar had additionally confirmed that Sneh Rana can be out there for the ultimate ODI after lacking the second half of the final recreation attributable to a collision with Pooja Vastrakar.

India will host the 2025 Women’s 50-over World Cup and with the core of the squad already decided, the duty hereon can be to enhance in all departments, significantly fielding.

Australia, on their half, can be eager on placing a greater present within the area after dropping a number of regulation probabilities within the final match, whereas huge runs are awaited from skipper Alyssa Healy.

Healy has been scoring in double-digit figures persistently however a giant rating has abandoned her to date, whereas Australia will anticipate additional fireworks from each Phoebe Litchfield and Ellyse Perry who’ve hit fifties in each the ODIs.

The Teams (From): India: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Yastika Bhatia (wk), Richa Ghosh (wk), Amanjot Kaur, Shreyanka Patil, Mannat Kashyap, Saika Ishaque, Renuka Singh Thakur, Titas Sadhu, Pooja Vastrakar, Sneh Rana, Harleen Deol.

Australia: Alyssa Healy (c & wk), Darcie Brown, Heather Graham, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Tahlia McGrath, Beth Mooney (wk), Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham.

Match begins at 1:30pm IST. PTI DDV PDS PDS

(This story has been edited by Mahaz News employees …)