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Team India defeated Sri Lanka in the Women’s Asia Cup 2022 final t♒o bag their seventh title at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Satur🐲day.
The Women in blue dominated right from the word go after the Islanders opted to bat first in the summit clash.🐎 Th𒈔e Indian bowling unit never allowed Sri Lanka batters to settle down, eventually restricting them to just 65/9 in 20 overs.
Renuka Singh was the pick of the bowler for India, bagging a brilliant three-wicket haul while giving away just 5 runs from three overs, including a maiden. Renuka was well supported by Rajeshwari Gayakwad (2/16) and Sneh Rana (2/13), both of whom took two scalps each. Tailender Inoka Ranaweera scored the maximum unbeaten 18 to help her side cross the 60-run benchma💝rk.
Chasing the paltry target, India lost Shafali Verma (5) and Jemimah Rodrigues (2) early, but Smriti Mandhana blazed her way to a remarkable half-century, helping her side win the Women’s Asia Cup 2022. Mandhana smashed an unbeaten 51 from just 25 deliveries, with the help of 6 fours and three sixes.
“We should give credit to the bowlers, and the fielding unit was very good today from ball one. We didn’t want to give them easy runs as every ball is important, proud of the way we performed today. You gotta read the wicket and place the field accordingly. We did that very well and placed the fielders accordingly, and that really helped us. We were not looking at the scoreboard, and we were just looking at the short targets we had for ourselves, and it all worked out well,” said India captain Harmanpreet Kaur in the post-match presentation.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 🏆
Well done, ! 👏 👏
— BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen)
Congratulations 🇮🇳 What an impressive display! Well done girls ♐🏆🫡
— hardik pandya (@hardikpandya7)
We clinch the Asia Cup once again! 🇮🇳🏆
Many congratulations to our women's team for winning the Asia Cup for a record 7th time!— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt)
INDIA WINS THE ASIA CUP!
Congratulations Indian women cricket team , you made🌊 the whole country proud.
— Amit Mishra (@MishiAmit)
Champions of 💎Asia 🏆 Congratulations on winning the Asia Cup 👏🏽 To win 7 out of the last 8 Asia cups is absolute domination 🙌🏽
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)
In seventh heaven 🥳
Congratulations to the Queens of Asia on winning the tournament yet ag⛄ain 🏆
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers)
India Men's won Asia Cup 7 times.
India Women's won Asia Cup 7 times.— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
For the 7th time. The Champions of Asia. 🇮🇳
📸: BCCI |
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders)
CHAMPIONS 🏆
Congratulations to India on their 7th Women's Asia Cup triumph 👏 | Scorecard: | 📸
— ICC (@ICC)
Only twice, India won a women's T20I match inside first 10 overs.
vs Thailand in 2022 Asia Cup
vs Sri Lanka in 2022 Asia Cup final— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats)
C🍸ongratulations to India Women on yet another Asia Cup 🉐Trophy! 💪🏆
— Jake Lush McCrum (@JakeLushMcCrum)