Women’s T20 World Cup: Deepti, Smriti shine as India crush Pakistan by 64 runs

Richa Ghosh could breathe life into the death overs the way few women do.Her explosive batting is something India depends heavily on. It is crucial to India’s campaign in the Women’s T20 World Cup.In front of a big, noisy, colourful, crowd, made up largely of Asian origin, on a sunny afternoon at Edgbaston, she came out to bat when India desperately wanted her to fire. She did.Her magnificent onslaught (34, 17b, 5x4, 1x6) turned India’s score from a potentially competitive one into a winning total against Pakistan. The less resourceful of the Asian neighbours was always going to find the target of 171 daunting.So it proved.

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