India women’s cricket team went from a convincing position in the first T20I against New Zealand at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington to throwing it all away with the middle order collapsing miserably. India women had earlier won the ODIs 2-1 which were part of the ICC Women’s Championship. Taniya Bhatia, Radha Yadav and Deepti Sharma exited in single digits as India women fell apart for 136 runs in the final over. Experienced Suzie Bates failed to fire with New Zealand women also starting poorly. AdvertisingBRIEF SCORES: New Zealand women: 159/4 (Sophie Devine 62; Deepti Sharma 1/19) beat India women: 136 all out (Smriti Mandhana 58, Jemimah Rodrigues 39; Lea Tahuhu 3/20) by 23 runs to win the first T20I.

Source: Indian Express February 06, 2019 06:22 UTC