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5 players of the Indian women’s cricket team debuting against England played aggressively
The Indian women’s team is playing a test match against England after a gap of 7 years. The match ended in a draw due to the excellent performance of the Indian women. Although 5 of its players had made their debut for India, all of them played a wonderful innings in their debut test match itself. Batting first in this match, England declared their first innings at 396 for 9.
In reply, India’s first innings was reduced to 233 runs and playing the follow-on, India scored 344 for 8 in the second innings to draw the match. Debutant Shefali Verma was the man of the match. Shefali scored 96 runs in the first innings and 63 runs in the second innings.
Deepti Sharma took 3 wickets for 65 runs in the first match while making her debut. Then played excellent innings of 29 and 54. Tania Bhatia could not open the account in the first innings. But in the second innings he scored 44 runs. Pooja Vastrakar took one wicket and played an innings of 12-12 runs in both the innings. Sneh Rana saved India from defeat by playing an unbeaten 80. Earlier, Rana took 4 wickets for 131 runs.
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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.