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India captain Harmanpreet Kaur positive despite team’s 14-run defeat to Australia in third T20I after Smriti Mandhana’s half-ton, lose series 0-2

Indian women’s T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur says that Richa Ghosh and Puja Vastrakar’s performance is a big positive for India from the multi-format series which they lost 5-11 on points to a dominant Australia.

India lost both ODI and T20I series 1-2 and 0-2 respectively while one T20 game was washed out. The Indian women’s team committed batting harakiri despite a fine half century from opener Smriti Mandhana to lose the final T20I by 14 runs.

Chasing a challenging 150-run target, Mandhana smashed 52 off 49 balls and shared 57 runs with Jemimah Rodrigues (23 off 26) for the second wicket to set the platform for India before the visitors lost four wickets in a span of 10 runs to lose the plot.

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India T20 captain Kaur

For Australia, right-arm pacer Nicola Carey (2-42) was the pick of the bowlers, while Ashleigh Gardner (1-22), Annabel Sutherland (1-13) and Georgia Wareham (1-15) scalped a wicket each.

Earlier, opener Beth Mooney (61) scored a half-century while Tahlia McGrath provided late flourish with an unbeaten 44 to help Australia put on board a decent 149 for five.

“The result wasn’t in our favour but we have good players like Pooja Vastrakar and Richa Ghosh. So we can take a lot of positives and we are on the right track. Thanks to our support staff, they really stood for us,” Harmanpreet said.

Australian captain Meg Lanning said, “We knew India would come back hard. It’s been a great series, both sides have had momentum. India have really tested us and given us a great challenge.”

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