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  • CWG Semifinal: Sublime Smriti, Good Rana take India to ultimate

    All-rounder Sneh Rana confirmed nerves of metal via choking runs in loss of life overs as Indian ladies’s cricket workforce pipped hosts England via 4 runs to go into the overall of the Commonwealth Video games on Saturday.Wanting 165 to win, England had been cruising alongside at 132 for three.

    The hosts required simplest 33 runs off 24 balls however off-spinner Rana (4-0-28-2) bowled extraordinarily neatly. She gave away simplest 3 runs within the 18th and 9 runs within the ultimate over. England completed at 160 for six or even a last-ball most from Sophie Ecclestone couldn’t save the day for the hosts with Harmanpreet Kaur’s brigade incomes a candy revenge of the 2017 ODI Global Cup ultimate defeat on the Lord’s.

    If Smriti Mandhana’s 32-ball-61 was once a deal with for the eyes, Rana, India’s endlessly ‘MVP’, Deepti Sharma (4-0-18-1) and Pooja Vastrakar (3-0-20-0) didn’t err in line or duration underneath force.

    The fit gave the impression to have decisively tilted in favour of England when Harmanpreet offered Shafali Verma, whose pleasant “donkey drops” within the sixteenth over fetching the house workforce 15 runs. However Deepti and Rana jointly gave away simplest six runs within the seventeenth and 18th over respectively.Pooja leaked 13 runs within the nineteenth over however the Mandhana-Taniya Bhatia aggregate pulled off a super run out of the damaging Nat Sciver to modify the route.

    It was once then left to Rana to bowl no less than 5 just right balls that confident a medal for India within the inaugural version of ladies’s cricket.

    BOWLED THE HOST ??#TeamIndia ?? ? reaches the FINAL for the first time within the historical past of Cricket at #Commonwealth Video games ??

    Debut of Ladies’s Cricket at #CWG2022 and our Champions cleared the path to Victory en path defeating the hosts England via 4️⃣ Runs

    Unbelievable effort ? percent.twitter.com/doOovwExqD

    — SAI Media (@Media_SAI) August 6, 2022

    Previous Mandhana’s chic but brutal knock of 61 in conjunction with Jemimah Rodrigues’ helpful 44 now not out powered India to a wholesome 164 for five in 20 overs.Mandhana’s 32-ball attack within the Powerplay laid the platform whilst Rodrigues, who’s in any case doing justice to her huge attainable, improvised neatly right through his 31-ball unbeaten keep on the crease.

    En path her knock, Mandhana additionally recorded the quickest T20 Global fifty in ladies’s cricket off simplest 23 balls.A brand new and stepped forward Deepti chipped in with 22 off 20 balls however India would possibly suppose they ended 15 runs wanting the par-score after 64 runs got here within the six Powerplay overs.The following 14 overs yielded 100 runs as India misplaced the momentum when 3 wickets fell in fast succession right through center overs.

    Rodrigues and Deepti added a useful 53 runs for the fourth wicket partnership.Mandhana’s drives are probably the most beautiful in ladies’s cricket and one would rub his eyes in disbelief when the most often rampaging Shafali Verma (17 off 15 balls) was once the silent spouse of their opening stand of 76 in 7.5 overs.

    There have been conceal drives off Katherine Brunt, pulled sixes off seamers Sciver an Issy Wong and a lofted one off spinner Sarah Glenn’s bowling over long-on.The half-century got here in simplest 23 balls as England bowlers appeared clueless right through that section.

    As soon as Sciver removed Mandhana, who was once seeking to play the lap-scoop, the run-rate bogged down as skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, regardless of a few fours and a six, performed few dot balls in her run-a-ball 20.

    Whilst Mandhana had 8 fours and 3 sixes in her knock, Rodrigues had seven fours to her credit score, most commonly the use of the gaps in arc between level and extra-cover

  • We aren’t competitors, we’re a part of javelin circle of relatives: Arshad Nadeem on friendship with Neeraj Chopra

    Pakistan javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem says he’ll omit competing in opposition to India’s Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra on the Commonwealth Video games right here as they’re a part of ‘one’ circle of relatives.

    Neeraj received a historical silver on the Global Championships remaining month with a throw of 88.13m as Arshad completed 5th after turning into the primary Pakistani to qualify for the finals.

    The Indian pulled out of the CWG because of a groin pressure whilst Arshad, who continues to nurse an elbow harm, is predicted to be at the podium with Grenada’s Anderson Peters, the favorite for gold. Peters received the gold at contemporary Worlds.”Neeraj bhai is my brother. I omit him right here. Would possibly God give him the most efficient of well being and I am getting to compete with him quickly,” Arshad advised PTI.

    The ‘bromance’ has been brewing between Indo-Pak competitors ever since they took section within the South Asian Video games in 2016 in Guwahati.

    4 years in the past, when Neeraj received the gold and Arshad were given bronze on the Asian Video games, the Indian had now not warmed as much as the Pakistani athlete absolutely however it isn’t the case anymore.”He is a great particular person. To begin with you have a tendency to be a little reserve. Whilst you get to grasp every different, you generally tend to open up.

    “I have been feeling uncomfortable after the pull I felt in my groin throughout my fourth throw on the Global Championships,” the athlete wrote. (Photograph: Reuters)

    “We’ve got an excellent friendship. I’m hoping he helps to keep appearing for India and I stay appearing for my nation. We each have made an affect. We’re like one circle of relatives,” stated the 25-year-old. The fifth-place end at Worlds used to be a creditable end for Arshad who made a comeback from harm after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He’s nonetheless wearing the similar elbow harm.

    “After Tokyo Olympics, I participated within the Worlds after a protracted hole, I’m feeling just right about my recreation. I’ve an elbow harm and getting handled for it.” Neeraj’s private easiest of 89.94m is a tad shy of the 90m mark whilst Arshad’s easiest stands at 86.38.

    “The best way coaches are seeing and the best way I believe about my recreation, I’ve set myself a goal of 95m,” stated Arshad sounding relatively constructive” Neeraj’s gold on the Olympics captured the creativeness of all of the country and made him an in a single day big name. Arshad has a protracted solution to move however says he too is getting a large number of strengthen from his govt.

    “The best way Neeraj bhai has were given a large number of popularity to your nation, I’ve were given a large number of strengthen from my govt and the folk. I’m in reality thankful for that,” stated Arshad who hopes to compete in India once more quickly.