The Indian women’s cricket team has once again proved its dominance in Asia. The final match of the Women’s Asia Cup 2022 was played on Saturday (October 15) between India and Sri Lanka. In which the Indian team badly defeated the Sri Lankan team by 8 wickets. With the defeat of Sri Lanka, the Indian women’s team has won the title for the 7th time in the history of the Asia Cup. While the big thing is that so far there have been only 8 seasons of Asia Cup. That is, except for one season, the Indian team has been the champion every time. Bangladesh has won the Asia Cup once.
Let us tell you that this time the Women’s Asia Cup was hosted by Bangladesh. All the matches including the final were played in Sylhet. In the final match played on Saturday, the Sri Lankan team won the toss and decided to bat first which turned out to be completely wrong. Not a single Sri Lankan player could survive against the onslaught of Indian bowlers. Sri Lanka lost two wickets for 9 runs and both were run out. That is, even in fielding, the Indian team pushed the Sri Lankan team on the backfoot. After that fast bowler Renuka Singh completely brought the Sri Lankan team to their knees by hunting 3 players. The rest was done by spinners Rajeshwari Gaekwad and Sneh Rana. Both took 2 wickets each.
9 batsmen of the Sri Lankan team could not touch double figures
In this way the Sri Lankan team could score only 65 runs by losing 9 wickets. In which Ranveera scored 18 runs and Oshadi Ransingh scored 13 runs. Apart from this, the remaining 9 batsmen of the Sri Lankan team could not even touch the figure of ten. In response to the target of 66 runs, the Indian team won the match by 8 wickets.
Mandhana scored a quick fifty
Team India started very well, but lost two wickets after getting to 35 runs. Shefali Verma was dismissed for 5 and Jemima Rodrigues for 2 runs. But Smriti Mandhana took over the innings along with captain Harmanpreet Kaur and came back to win the match. Mandhana played an unbeaten innings of 51 runs off 25 balls. While Harman scored 11 runs in 14 balls. With the help of his innings, the Indian team won the match by scoring 71 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in 8.3 overs.