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India Women vs Bangladesh Women: In the first semi-final match of the Women’s Asia Cup, the Indian women’s cricket team maintained its dominance and defeated Bangladesh. In this match played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Team India won by 40 runs. With this one-sided victory, the Indian team entered the final for the 10th consecutive time in the history of the tournament. With this, India has maintained the record of reaching the final in every edition of this tournament.

Shefali Verma played match winning innings

Batting first after the toss, India scored 149 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs with the help of a half-century by opener Shefali Verma. While all the other Indian batsmen were struggling to score runs on a difficult and slow pitch, Shefali Verma took the Bangladeshi bowling seriously. Shefali scored 64 runs in just 40 balls, which included 7 powerful fours and 3 sixes.

Among the top four Indian batsmen, the strike rate of the remaining three was less than 100, while Shefali put pressure on the bowlers with a strike rate of 160. During this period, Shefali also missed 3 catches. Apart from this, Pratika Rawal made a useful contribution of 20 runs and wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh made a useful contribution of 21 runs in 16 balls. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur also managed to score unbeaten 24 runs in 28 balls. On the other hand, Sultana Khatoon took 2 wickets for Bangladesh, while Rabia Khan, Nahida Akhtar and Marufa Akhtar got 1 wicket each.

Bangladesh’s innings collapsed cheaply

Bangladesh had a very bad start in reply to the target of 150 runs. The team added only 26 runs in the powerplay and lost 1 wicket. After this, he could not return to the match and the entire team could score only 109 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. During this period, Deepti Sharma was India’s most successful bowler, she took 3 wickets for 26 runs in 4 overs. Whereas, Nandani Sharma took 2 wickets. Shri Charni and Prema Rawat got 1 success each.