SA-W beat IND-W: South Africa wins by 6 runs lead series 2-1, MithalI Raj

SA W beat IND W 3rd ODI: South Africa women win by 6 runs via D/L method, lead series 2-1- South Africa Women have won the third ODI by 6 runs via D/L method as rain interrupted the match towards the end on Friday. Lizelle Lee brought up her convincing century as she helped SA take a 2-1 lead over India women.

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Lee slammed unbeaten 132 runs off just 131 deliveries, smashing 16 boundaries and a couple of sixes. Mignon Du Preez too contributed 37 runs for the South Africa women. For India, Jhulan Goswami was the pick of the bowlers, she scalped 2 wickets for 20 runs

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The match would have been a nail-biter as Lizelle Lee’s wicket could have changed the game around. The two teams will next face each other on Sunday at the same venue. India Women led by Mithali Raj needs to win the remaining matches in order to win the series.

Earlier today, Laura Woolvaardt-led South Africa restricted India Women to 248/5 after winning the toss. Punam Raut was the top scorer with 77 runs, including 11 fours. She found the support of T20I skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and continued her knock. Raut along with Harmanpreet build a brief 20-run stand before she was picked by Marizanne Kapp in the 34th over.

Haramanpreet Kaur, Deepti Sharma and Mithali contributed 36 runs each. Mandhana also stitched 25 runs.

Meanwhile, Mithali Raj completed 10,000 runs in international cricket.

The visitors got an early breakthrough as opener Jemimah Rodriguez departed for a duck. Shabnail was the pick of the bowlers, she scalped 2 wickets.

SA-W beat IND W 3rd ODI

South Africa Women Innings – 223/4 (46.3 ov)

Batsmen		R	B	4S	6S	SR
Lizelle Lee	Not out	131	130	16	2	100.77
Laura Wolvaardt (C)	b DB Sharma	12	29	2	0	41.38
Lara Goodall	c H Kaur b J Goswami	16	41	0	0	39.02
Mignon du Preez	c PG Raut b RS Gayakwad	37	46	2	1	80.43
Marizanne Kapp	c M Raj b J Goswami	0	5	0	0	0.00
Anne Bosch	Not out	16	28	1	0	57.14
Extra	10 (b 4, w 4, nb 1, lb 1)
Total	223/4 (46.3)
Yet To Bat	S Jafta, S Ismail, TS Sekhukhune, A Khaka, Nondumiso Shangase

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON
Jhulan Goswami	9	2	20	2	2.22
Mansi Joshi	5	0	43	0	8.60
Rajeshwari Gayakwad	9.2	1	38	1	4.07
Deepti Sharma	9	2	39	1	4.33
Poonam Yadav	10	0	51	0	5.10
Harmanpreet Kaur	4	0	26	0	6.50

Fall Of Wickets	FOW	Over
L Wolvaardt	1-41	9.6
L Goodall	2-81	21.2
M du Preez	3-178	36.2
M Kapp	4-178	37.5

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India Women Innings248/5 (50 ov)

Batsmen		R	B	4S	6S	SR
Jemimah Rodrigues	c S Jafta b S Ismail	0	2	0	0	0.00
Smriti Mandhana	c Nondumiso Shangase b TS Sekhukhune	25	27	4	0	92.59
Punam Raut	c Anne Bosch b M Kapp	77	108	11	0	71.30
Mithali Raj (C)	c M du Preez b Anne Bosch	36	50	5	0	72.00
Harmanpreet Kaur	c TS Sekhukhune b S Ismail	36	46	4	1	78.26
Deepti Sharma	Not out	36	49	2	0	73.47
Sushma Verma (WK)	Not out	14	19	0	0	73.68
Extra	24 (b 1, w 13, nb 1, lb 9)
Total	248/5 (50)
Yet To Bat	J Goswami, Poonam Yadav, RS Gayakwad, M Joshi

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON
Shabnim Ismail	10	1	46	2	4.60
Marizanne Kapp	10	0	47	1	4.70
Ayabonga Khaka	10	1	39	0	3.90
Tumi Sekhukhune	10	0	53	1	5.30
Nondumiso Shangase	4	0	24	0	6.00
Anne Bosch	6	0	29	1	4.83

Fall Of Wickets	FOW	Over
JI Rodrigues	1-0	0.2
S Mandhana	2-64	11.6
M Raj	3-141	27.6
PG Raut	4-161	33.6
H Kaur	5-221	44.6

Playing XI:

India Women: Jemimah Rodrigues, Smriti Mandhana, Punam Raut, Mithali Raj(c), Harmanpreet Kaur, Deepti Sharma, Sushma Verma(w), Jhulan Goswami, Poonam Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Mansi Joshi

South Africa Women: Lizelle Lee, Laura Wolvaardt(c), Anne Bosch, Lara Goodall, Mignon du Preez, Marizanne Kapp, Sinalo Jafta(w), Shabnim Ismail, Ayabonga Khaka, Nondumiso Shangase, Tumi Sekhukhune

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