India created a new record by defeating Zimbabwe by 92 runs in the third T20 match played at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Raipur. With this victory, the Indian women’s cricket team has registered its biggest win in the T20 format at home. The team has made this new record by defeating Zimbabwe by a huge margin of 92 runs in the match played in Raipur. This is the biggest win for the Indian women’s team in T20I history in terms of runs on home soil.
India’s biggest win on home ground
The Indian women’s cricket team has achieved many big and spectacular victories in T20 matches while playing at home. The biggest victory in this match was against Zimbabwe at Raipur ground. Team India won this match by 92 runs. Earlier in the year 2016, the Indian women’s team had won by 72 runs against Bangladesh in Bengaluru. Whereas in 2024, Team India defeated West Indies by 60 runs in Mumbai. In 2019, the Indian team had registered a big win by 51 runs against South Africa in Surat.
Harmanpreet Kaur scored unbeaten 91 runs in 41 balls
Talking about the match, India won the toss and batted first and made a big score of 216 runs for 7 wickets. Initially, Shafali Verma and Anushka Sharma added 54 runs for the first wicket, in which Anushka was out after scoring 28 runs. After this the team also lost the wicket of Nikki Prasad (9) at the score of 68. After this, Harmanpreet Kaur, who came to the crease along with Shafali, made a brilliant partnership of 84 runs for the third wicket and took the team’s score to 152, where Shafali was out after scoring 69 runs. Harmanpreet remained unbeaten till the end and played a brilliant inning of 91 runs in just 41 balls with the help of 5 sixes and 10 fours.
Zimbabwe’s batting was a flop
Zimbabwe had a very poor start while chasing the target. Zimbabwe team lost the wicket of Kelis Ndlovu (0) on the very first ball, after which the wicket of Modester Mupachikwa (1) also fell by 12 runs. After this, Sharn Myers and Bija tried their best to handle the innings by making a partnership of 82 runs for the third wicket, but Zimbabwe’s run rate remained very slow throughout the innings, due to which the entire team was able to score only 124 runs after losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. Nandani Sharma took maximum 3 wickets from India’s side.
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