Mandhana ton features India's clinical arrangement win

Smriti Mandhana more likely than not missed the mark regarding a century in the first Day International against South Africa by 16 runs. Be that as it may, in the second, on Wednesday (February 7), she arrived in style, belting her third ODI century as she took India Women to a solid aggregate which turned out to be plentifully enough as South Africa surrendered to an enormous 178-run misfortune to give India two more focuses towards the ICC Women's Championship and an arrangement win with one amusement to go. 

Mandhana fell on 135 off 129 in the 44th over with 241 on the board, yet a quickfire 50 years from Veda Krishnamurthy took the side over the 300-run check as India set the hosts 303 to win at the Diamond Oval in Kimberley, which they missed the mark regarding as they were packaged out in only 30.5 overs for 124. 

On a decent batting wicket, why South Africa sent India to bat, was impossible to say. The openers scored 56 preceding Punam Raut died. Captain Mithali Raj succumbed to 20, however, Mandhana assumed the part of the sheet stay to flawlessness, doing the heft of the scoring in each of the stands that she shared. After Raj's takeoff came to the noteworthy stand that pushed India towards a forcing absolute. Harmanpreet Kaur held hands with Mandhana, on the way her own 50 years, while taking the secondary lounge as the last surged ahead before she tumbled to Raisibe Ntozakhe for 135. Her thump kept going 129 balls in which he hit 14 limits and a six, which additionally conveyed a conclusion to her 134-run remain with Kaur. 

Kaur and Krishnamurthy at that point teamed up for the fourth wicket to include an unbeaten 61-run remain for the fourth wicket to end the pursuit on a high. Krishnamurthy was unbeaten on 51 that fell off only 33 balls (six fours and one six), while Kaur remained not out on 55. 


Dissimilar to the first dayer when South Africa was never in the pursuit, in any case, opener Lizelle Lee gave them a solid begin. Jhulan Goswami turned into the primary lady to achieve 200 One-Day International wickets after she had opener Laura Wolvaardt got behind right on time in the pursuit with 32 on the load up. Indeed, even as South Africa were scoring at a sound rate, that they lost wickets at general interims starting there on, pegged them back, with simply Lee offering any similarity of protection. 

Notwithstanding Lee's 50 years, just a single other got into twofold digits, with Marizanne Kapp staying unbeaten on 17, while the rest fell like ten pins. That the wickets were tumbling at the opposite end didn't discourage Lee from continuing on ahead before she died. She continued assaulting until the point when the end when she fell for 73, that fell off only 75 balls - an innings with three sixes and seven fours. Poonam Yadav returned four wickets, while Rajeshwari Gayakwad and Deepti Sharma had two each as South Africa were decreased from 51 for 1 to being full scale in the blink of an eye. 

The last match of the three-diversion arrangement will be played on February 10 in Potchefstroom.

Brief scores: India Women 302/3 in 50 overs (Smriti Mandhana 135, Harmanpreet Kaur 55*, Veda Krishnamurthy 51*) beat South Africa Women 124 in 30.5 overs (Lizelle Lee 73; Poonam Yadav 4-24) by 178 runs