Indian women’s cricket team lost to Australia by 9 runs in women’s cricket at the Commonwealth Games. As a result, the Indian women’s dream of winning gold in the women’s cricket event did not come true. Australian women celebrate winning gold after defeating India in Birmingham. And the Indians have to be satisfied with the silver medal.
Meanwhile, the New Zealand women’s cricket team won the bronze medal by achieving third place. Batting first, the Australian women’s cricket team set a target of 162 runs in the final of the Commonwealth Games held at Edgbaston. In response, the Indian women’s cricket team fell into an extreme batting disaster at the beginning.
India lost 8 wickets after scoring only 34 runs off Aussie’s dangerous bowling. But in the end Harmanprits could not have the last laugh even though they created some chances with the bat. She could not lead the team to the port of victory even after trying hard. As a result, the Indians could not win the gold medal having been defeated by 9 runs.
Earlier, Beth Mooney played an innings of 61 runs to take Australia strong position. Besides Meg Lanning, Ashley Gardner, Russell Haines got the capital of victory with the bat. After that, the bowlers put the last nail in India’s coffin by going to the bowling. Indians could not stand in front of aggressive Aussies.