India Women's Team vs New Zealand Women's Team Today New Zealand Women's Team played a great game they scored 259 runs. New Zealand Women's team had a good batting performance in today's match, they collected runs from the start and made big scores. India women's team have already lost 6 wickets and are batting under a lot of pressure when they go into bat to meet the target of 260 runs. The way India is batting at the moment, they will definitely lose, still need to collect 159 runs, which is very difficult for the team at present.
Indian team faced huge variety as New Zealand Women's team collected 259 runs, India team could not put pressure on New Zealand Women's team in terms of bowling. Later, when the Indian team started batting, three wickets fell in the power play. The Indian team may also face a lot of pressure as the first attacking batsmen in the top order who usually do not perform well in the power play and as opening batsmen.
Shefali Burma and Smriti Mandhana entered the field as the opening batsmen, and Smriti Mandhana was dismissed for no runs and the opening pair was broken. After that, the players of the Indian team started to press and in the end they managed to score 183 runs. But to meet the target of the New Zealand women's team, the Indian team still had to meet the target of 86 runs..
In this match, Indian women were defeated by New Zealand women by a huge margin of 76 runs. Indian women won the first match between these two teams followed by New Zealand women winning the second match to level the series already. One of the reasons why India lost yesterday's match was because of their poor batting performance. They were under a lot of pressure especially when they fell six wickets short of 100 runs. Indian women's lower order batsmen Radha Yadav and Saima Thakor put on a 70-run partnership, Moreover, none of the rest of the batsmen could perform well.
Interestingly, both the New Zealand women's and men's teams are currently touring India. Just as the New Zealand men defeated the Indian men's team in their second Test match, the New Zealand women defeated the Indian women in their second ODI match. The last match of the ODI series between these two teams will be held on October 29. As the series is tied now both teams have chances to win the series.