Because the Indian Ladies’s group beneath Harmanpreet Kaur defeated Alyssa Healy’s Australia Ladies within the one-off Check at Wankhede yesterday, the complete Indian cricketing fraternity congratulated the group for his or her wonderful efficiency because it was their 2nd consecutive Check win at residence which got here days after India’s 347-run victory over England. Former Indian captain Mithali Raj additionally praised group India.
Nevertheless, on that special day, 2 former Indian Ladies’s group captains, Anjum Chopra and Mithali Raj obtained concerned in an unhealthy disagreement on Social media. It occurred proper after Smriti Mandhana scored the successful runs from her bat at hand Australia an 8-wicket defeat.
Mithali Raj definitely paved the best way for right now’s Check win #INDvAUS
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— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) December 24, 2023
This explicit win was particular for lots of causes. Firstly, it was India’s back-to-back 2nd Check win on residence soil, secondly, it was the primary time that India was capable of beat Australia in a Check match and third (a very powerful one), the Indian Ladies’s group grew to become the primary group since 2013/14 to beat Australia girls’s in a Check collection as England had been the final to beat them throughout that 12 months’s Ladies’s Ashes collection.
This explicit victory might act as a catalyst for achievement for the Indian group shifting ahead. Alyssa Healy after successful the toss, elected to bat first at Navi Mumbai. The opening pair of Jemimah Rodrigues and Phoebe Litchfield didn’t final lengthy because the latter was run out by Jemimah Rodrigues within the final ball of the very first over with out even going through a ball.
Quantity 3 Ellyse Perry was additionally faraway from the crease quickly for simply 4 runs by Pooja Vastrakar and it gave India a dreamy begin to the one-off Check. Then quantity 4 Tahlia McGrath steadied issues for Australia, scoring a hard-earned half-century earlier than falling prey to Sneh Rana’s left arm off-spin.
Beth Mooney additionally departed very quickly for 40 and Captain Alyssa Healy additionally obtained out for 38 with the next batters, Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Kim Garth, and Lauren Cheatle scoring a mixed 85 runs to assist Australia arrange a first-inning whole of 219.
Within the 2nd innings, Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana stood for a 90-run opening partnership earlier than the previous obtained caught earlier than the stumps by Jess Jonassen’s straight supply for 40. Mandhana departed after scoring 74 with Richa Ghosh and Jemimah Rodrigues enjoying delivering knocks of 52 and 73 earlier than Deepti Sharma and Pooja Vastrakar took over and scored 78 and 47 to assist India put up 406.
Within the third innings, Australia began properly and it was beginning to look as in the event that they had been slowly making their manner again into the sport. Mooney and Litchfield added 49 runs earlier than the previous was run out by Richa Ghosh and the latter was shocked by Sneh Rana.
Ellyse Perry (45) and Tahlia McGrath (73) tried to stage a comeback however each of them didn’t convert their head begins into one thing massive. In a while Healy and Sutherland tried to maintain Australia within the recreation however Sneh Rana’s 4-wickets, Rajeshwari Gaikwad and Harmanpreet Kaur’s brace of wickets, and Pooja Vastrakar’s sole wicket obtained Australia all out for 261 to arrange a very simple goal of 75.
After shedding Shafali Verma very early, Mandhana and Richa Ghosh initiated the chase however Ghosh was out for 13 within the sixteenth over. However Jemimah Rodrigues’ 12 runs and Mandhana’s 38 had been sufficient to seal a memorable one-sided victory for the Indian Ladies’s group.
Anjum Chopra Asks Publication Why Was Mithali Raj Credited for Indian Ladies’s Staff win?
Quickly after the Indian Ladies’s group gained, congratulatory posts unfurled on social media with Mithali Raj additionally writing in appreciation for the Indian group on X, “HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO TEAM INDIA on beating Australia for the primary time in Ladies’s Checks! @Vastrakarp25 & @SnehRana15 had been immaculate with the ball, and the batting unit rallied round to document this historic triumph. Two Check victories on the trot, properly performed.” – Mithali Raj wrote.
It was then reposted by ESPNCricinfo with a headline that credited Mithali Raj for the victory. “Mithali Raj definitely paved the best way for right now’s take a look at win.”
Issues obtained much more fascinating when one other former Indian captain Anjum Chopra commented on ESPN’s put up, merely asking the publication, “How?”
How ? is for the headline 🙂 @ESPNcricinfo
— Anjum Chopra (@chopraanjum) December 24, 2023
And rightfully so even from a fan’s perspective, how did Mithali Raj alone pave the best way for India’s victory simply because she performed with the present set of gamers? And even when she had performed a task, why was Anjum Chopra offended? Is there any inner dispute occurring between the Two?
However no matter it, the Indian Ladies’s group will return to motion for a 3-match ODI collection in opposition to Australia, ranging from twenty eighth December.
