THE Indian women will be confident they can come away with a win from their World Cup pool game at Bradman Oval in March after they completed a clean-sweep in their tour matches at Bowral over the weekend.
The visitors beat NSW by 48 runs on Saturday before easily accounting for the Australian under-21s, the Shooting Stars, by 82 runs on Sunday. The Indians posted 7-231 off their 50 overs, while the Aussie youngsters recovered from a disastrous start to finish all out for 149.
The Stars were 5-20 after 11 overs but skipper Jessica Cameron (60) and Connie Hall (21) put on a 74-run seventh wicket stand to salvage some pride for the team. Jhulan Goswami (3-20) and Rumeli Dhar (3-15) opened the bowling brilliantly for India, while off-spinner Seema Pujare (3-30) cleaned up the tail.
All but two of India’s batters hit double figures with opener Thirush Kamini top scoring with 66, while tailender Goswami hit an unbeaten 41.
For the full story see the Southern Highland News, Wednesday, October 29
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