India women’s and New Zealand women’s faces each other for 3rd ODI, the series decider.
Radha Yadav who has been one of the key players for India in the series against New Zealand with her super athletic on the field and taking some unbelievable catches. She is providing a good bowling performance for the team also by picking up the key wickets of the New Zealand women’s team and taking a total of 4 wickets in the game. Now for time she alone has proven herself valuable and plays some important role for the team. Whereas Radha Yadav isn’t much known for her batting and playing long innings for the team, her batting position is number 9. In the second ODI match she came to bat when the team was struggling for 102-7, while chasing a score of 260. She was the last wicket who got at 48 runs, leading to a defeat of 76-runs for India in the second match of the series.
Concern of India women team:
The major concern of team India right now is their batting, the 48 runs by Radha Yadav wasn’t only the highest score by an Indian player in that match but it was the highest score by an Indian in this series. This is an important point to work on as going to face them again today in the series decider game in the third ODI which will be played in Narendra Modi stadium. This stadium has been given an average rating by ICC after the ICC men’s cricket world cup final 2023 played between India and Australia on 19th November. It is believed today there will be more runs scored, as we have seen that New Zealand skipper Sophie Devine was back in good touch in the second ODI. We all know Sophie Devine likes to smash the bowlers out of the park and makes batting look easy. But this time not only Devine but other kiwi players also played good innings like Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Maddy Green and Brooke Halliday in the first match. In the first match of the series, Shefali Verma played a good knock for India and scored 90 runs in 15 overs, but still it took a few more good innings from lower middle order debutant Tejal Hasabnis and Deepti Sharma which helped India to reach a good total in first odi. But if India wants to win India’s key batters like Smriti Mandhana, captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues have to come up and play a good innings. Indian bowlers were good in the first match but we’re less active in the second. The spinning dua Deepti Sharma and Radha Yadav have done well for the team along with a new seamer Saima Thakur has been a key factor. The Indian bowlers don’t mind some runs from the batters.