Indian women’s team defeated Zimbabwe by 9 wickets in the second T20 match. In this match played in Raipur, the Indian women’s team restricted Zimbabwe to 103 runs. After this, the pair of Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma together achieved this target easily. In this match, Team India’s 20 year old bowler Nikki Prasad made a new record in her name. In this match, he bowled for the first time in international cricket and during this time he has achieved a historic feat, which was not recorded in the name of any Indian bowler in men’s or women’s international cricket before today.
Nikki Prasad took two wickets in two consecutive balls.
In the second T20 match against Zimbabwe, when Nikki Prasad came to bowl in the 15th over, she dismissed Chipo Tiripano, Zimbabwe’s most dangerous batsman and the highest scorer of 34 runs, on the very first ball of her international career. In this way, she became the first Indian woman bowler to take a wicket on her very first ball in international cricket. After this, he sent the opposition team’s batsman to the pavilion on the second ball also. With this, Nikki Prasad became the first Indian cricketer in the history of international cricket (both men and women) to take 2 consecutive wickets in her first 2 balls. Although she missed completing her hat-trick, she completely stole the show in her short spell.
Nicky did wonders with the bat in the first T20 match.
Nikki Prasad bowled very economically in this match and took 2 important wickets giving only 7 runs in his quota of 2 overs. With her excellent off-spin and ability to remain calm under pressure, she has proved that she is the future of Indian women’s cricket. Her explosive performance with the bat and the ball has shown that she can become one of the most reliable all-rounders of the team in the times to come. Let us tell you that in the first T20 match, he played an excellent inning of 39 runs. Team India had won that match by 4 wickets.
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