history was created by winning silver,

Birmingham. Indian women’s team led by Harmanpreet Kaur won silver in Commonwealth Games. Cricket was included in the games for the first time. In this way, the women’s team created history by winning the medal. Earlier in 1998, men’s cricket also got a place in the games, then the Indian team could not win the medal. In the final, T20 world champion Australia defeated the Indian team by 9 runs in a thrilling match. Playing first, Australia had scored 161 runs for 8 wickets. In reply, the Indian team was reduced to 152 runs. Harmanpreet scored a brilliant half-century. The Indian team could have won the gold here, but these 5 mistakes of theirs weighed heavily on them:

1- Renuka Singh took the big wicket of Alyssa Healy in the third over of the match. After 6 overs powerplay the score was 43 runs, but in the next 4 overs Australia’s team scored 40 runs, which proved to be decisive in the end.

2. Harmanpreet Kaur tried 4 bowlers for 4 overs between 7th to 10th over. Due to this the batsmen of the Kangaroo team managed to catch the rhythm. Radha Yadav 3 in the 7th over, Sneh Rana 8 in the 8th over, Pooja Vastrakar 12 in the 9th over and Harmanpreet 17 in the 10th over.

In the 3.12th over, Deepti Sharma took the big wicket of Tahila McGrath. She is known for her aggressive batting. Even after this, his 4 overs were completed in three spells. Kangaroo team scored 36 runs in the last 5 overs.

4. Chasing the target, India lost both its openers for 22 runs. Due to this the team came under pressure. Smriti Mandhana, who scored 2 half-centuries in the games, scored 6 and aggressive batsman Shefali Verma scored 11 runs.
5.Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemim Rodriguez made a big partnership of 96 runs for the third wicket to get the team back in the match. But the team lost the last 8 wickets for 34 runs. Due to this the team remained 9 runs away from the target. The Indian batsmen could not play the spinners well and took 4 wickets. 3 players were also run out.