The Indian women’s cricket team had already created history in the final of the women’s T20 cricket, which was included in the Commonwealth Games for the first time, and it was their turn to settle for silver. T-20 World Cup champions Australia won the final by 9 runs and won the gold medal.
Chasing the target of 162 runs set by Australia, the Indian team got off to a bad start and in the second over, the in-form Smriti Mandhana was dismissed for just 6 runs. After that, Shefali Verma also got out by scoring 11 runs. Jemima Rodrigues and captain Harmanpreet Kaur then put on a partnership of 96 runs to take the score to 118 runs in 14.3 overs. On this score, Jemima got out by scoring 33 runs.
After that, Pooja Vastrakar was also dismissed for just 1 run and in the same over Harmanpreet was also dismissed for a personal 65 runs, India’s hopes almost ended and finally the Indian team was all out for 152 runs in the third ball of the last over. The Australian team, who came to bat first, had a bad start. However, Beth Mooney played an innings of 61 runs, while Meg Lanning played an innings of 36 runs. Apart from this, Ashley Gardner scored 25 runs. Australia scored 161 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs.