CHAK DE! INDIA@WWC17

The 2017 Women’s World Cup(WWC) has drawn a lot of attention from media and the people of the country, India. This WWC has given some roller-coaster matches especially with the semi-finals and the finals. And the outstanding response for our own nation team of India...

The Qualification-WWC:-

Indian Women’s team has faced the qualification round of the world cup held in Sri Lanka early this year in February. Indian team has defeated South Africa in the finals of the qualification by 49 runs.

Mithali Raj showing her master strokes with a half-century & Shika Pandey took 4 wickets in 9.4 overs for 34 runs. In this tournament, Mithali Raj became 2^nd batter to score more than 5500 runs after Charlotte Edwards of England...

Batters Mithali Raj, Thirush Kamini, Veda Krishnamurthy have shinned where as the bowlers Shika Pandey, Mansi Joshi and Poonam Yadav have been impressive taking wickets...

The big tourney:-

This Women’s World Cup has been their 1^st World Cup for most of the girls; but fought the matches, lost couple of them in the groups and reached the finals to settle with the Runners up position. But the journey of these girls has won the attention and gained the attraction from their own people and media...

Indian women’s cricket team has bid adieu to the veterans Mithali Raj and inJhulan Goswami has this is their last World Cup to play. Mithali Raj & Jhulan Goswami has become the idols to many young cricketers in India and has been strong pillars in the team.

India started their WWC with a great win against the host team, England with 35 runs but later stood as runners losing to them in the finals. Smrithi’s unbeaten 90 after her comeback from the injury helped the innings; and a ton against West Indians in the second match helped to reach the target.

In the 3^rd match against the neighbouring country Pakistan, the spin star Ekta Bisht got 5 wicket haul for 18 runs making 95 runs victory defending the small total of 169 runs...

4^th match against Sri Lanka, Deepthi Sharma starred with bat and Jhulan & Poonam with their Balls led India clinch their 4^th straight victory with 16 runs...

In the 5^th match against the South Africans, India lost to them with 115 runs as South Africa’s captain Dane Van has scored half-century & taking 4 wickets...

 In the next match with Australia, the Australian Women made their target in an easy manner with special performance from Perry and Meg Lanning...

Last match in the group stage was both the teams of India and New Zealand as it was do or die match for the semi’s berth. India has come up with a change by replacing Rajeshwari Gayakwad with Ekta Bisht. This changed the course of the match has Gayakwad has got her 1^st 5 wicket haul crumble up the opponent all-out for 79. Mithali scored a ton & Veda Krishnamurthy’s 70 helped them also...

The semi’s with the Aussies:-

A huge win against New Zealand, brought confidence in the team to face the mighty Australian Women’s team. Harmanpreet Kaur’s mesmerising 171* from 115 balls was an monstrous attack against the opponents made a victory with 36 runs making the way to the Finals for the 2^nd time after 2005, to meet England at the Lords.

The FINALS:-

In the finals against the England-the hosts, the team looked confident to restrict the opponents for 228 runs and special bowling figures from the ace pacer Jhulan Goswami 10-3-23-3 which was the best for any Indian Women in the Finals. But under the pressure the young girls couldn’t with the stand the hosts and the last 7 wickets fell for 28 runs making up to settle for the runner-up position by losing the game to England for 9 runs...

STATS FOR INDIA:-

#Mithali Raj was the second highest score runner in the tournament with 409 runs. Also, Mithali is the current highest score runner having 6190 runs.

# Jhulan Goswami has the highest wicket taker having 195 wickets.

# Sushma Verma- Wicket Keeper has the highest number of dismissals in the tournament: 7 catches & 8 stumpings.

# Deepthi Sharma is at 5^th position of having taking the most wickets of 12 in the tournament.

# Harmanpreet Kaur is the 2^nd highest number of sixes being hit, 11 in 8 innings.

#Mithali Raj is the only Indian captain to lead the team to the finals of the World Cup for 2 times.

#Mithali Raj & Jhulan Goswami;only two players to play world cup finals for 2 times.

#Mithali Raj & Jhulan Goswami played their last world cup; bid adieu inspiring many girls to take up cricket.

Indian Women’s cricket is the new attraction to the people as they have bought some immense training to bring the game to this stage. Indian side having most young lads coming into the team are mostly aging between19-25. There is a long road to success for the girls in future years and may IPL version of  Women turn up in a couple of years. All the Indian are looking up to these 15 as their new heroines who were unnoticed in the yester years. CHAK DE! INDIA.