India Women defeated West Indies by 115 runs in the second ODI. After winning the toss, the Indian team came to bat and matched their highest score. India scored 358 runs losing 5 wickets at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara. Harleen Deol scored a century on Tuesday. While Jemimah Rodriguez, Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal scored fifty with the bat.
In response, the West Indies team was all out for 243 runs in 46.2 overs. Team captain Hailey Mathews played a 106-run inning. Spinner Priya Mishra has taken 3 wickets of India. Pratika Rawal also took 2 wickets. Harleen received the Player of the Match award for scoring a century.
India matched their best score. India had also scored 358 runs against Ireland in 2017. The team crossed the 350-run mark for the second time in ODIs. India had scored 314 runs in the first match of the series. Opener Mandhana scored his fifth consecutive fifty in international cricket.
The openers concluded a century-old partnership on Tuesday in Vadodara. India won the toss and elected to bat. Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal completed an opening partnership of 110 runs. Mandhana was exhausted after scoring 53 runs. After this, Pratika entered into a 62-run partnership with Harleen Deol. Pratika was out after scoring 76 runs. He scored the first fifty of his ODI career.
Harleen scored the first century after Pratika’s dismissal, captain Harmanpreet Kaur took over the innings with Harleen. Harman could only score 22 runs off 18 balls. After her, Jemimah Rodriguez completed a 116-run partnership with Harleen. Harleen scored the first century of her ODI career, she was out after scoring 115 runs.
Jemima also made a quick fifty runs, she was eliminated after scoring 52 runs. In the end, Richa Ghosh scored 13 runs and Deepti Sharma scored 4, taking the score to 358 runs. Deandra Dottin, Effie Fletcher, Jayda James and Kiana Joseph took 1 wicket each in West Indies. The team gave up 23 more points.
Despite Hailey’s century the Caribbean team lost chasing 359 runs, the West Indies got off to a poor start. The team lost the wicket of opener Joseph for just 20 runs. At one point, the team’s score reached 69 runs after losing 4 wickets, but captain Hailey Mathews, playing at the other end, played a brilliant innings. He scored 106 runs, marking the seventh century of his career. He hit 13 fours.
Priya Mishra took maximum 3 wickets from the Indian side. He fired Jayda James, Williams and Ramhark. Captain Hayley Mathews was sacked by Pratika Raval. He sent 2 batsmen to the pavilion. Titas Sadhu and Deepti Sharma also took 2 wickets each.
India had won the first ODI by 211 runs. India had registered its second-biggest victory in the series opener on Sunday. Indian women’s team defeated West Indies by 211 runs. After losing the toss, the Indian team came to bat and scored 314 runs, losing 9 wickets with the help of Smriti Mandhana’s 91 runs. In response, the Caribbean women’s team were on full tilt after scoring 103 runs in 26.2 overs.