PUNE: Pooja Vastrakar picked up 4 wickets for just 12 runs in a brilliant tempo-bowling display as Supernovas notched up an uncomplicated 49-operate acquire over Trailblazers in a file-breaking opening match of the Women’s T20 Obstacle on Monday.
The 22-yr-outdated Vastrakar claimed the wickets of Trailblazers’ captain Smriti Mandhana (34), her opening husband or wife Hayley Matthews (18), No. 4 Sophia Dunkley (1) and Salma Khatun () in two separate spells to tear aside the batting line-up of the defending champions.
England left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone and Australia all-rounder Alana King chipped in with two wickets apiece as Trailblazers could only rating 114 for 9 in 20 overs although chasing 164.
The Supernovas experienced previously scored the tournament’s best-ever rating of 163 all out right after opting to bat.
Trailblazers designed a solid start to their chase with Mandhana and Matthews placing on 39 runs for the opening wicket in 5 overs.
But Vastrakar struck triple blows on Trailblazers to depart the defending champions in deep trouble.
She to start with had the wicket of Matthews off the final ball of the fifth over and then dismissed skipper Mandhana and Dunkley in the place of four balls in the eighth about.
Wickets kept on tumbling in swift succession as Sharmin Akhter () was out in the next above for a duck to be King’s initial sufferer of the day.
Operates had been difficult to arrive by for Trailblazers as they attained 71 for 4 at the halfway mark. But two brief wickets in the 11th over bowled by Ecclestone almost finished the contest.
Ecclestone experienced Richa Gosh (2) off the 2nd ball of the more than and Arundhati Reddy () was run out in the subsequent shipping as Trailblazers batters looked in a hurry to return to the hut.
Harmanpreet Kaur introduced Vastrakar for her next spell and the pacewoman bought quick achievements by obtaining Khatun to lower Trailblazers to 73 for 7 at the finish of 12 overs.
Asking fee had climbed a lot more than 11 runs an over by then and one particular-down Jemimah Rodrigues (24) tried using to make a match out of it but she also fell in the 14th more than to Meghna Singh to extinguish any hopes of Trailblazers’ combat back.
Earlier, Supernovas captain Kaur major-scored with 37 off 29 balls even though Harleen Deol and Deandra Dottin chipped in with 35 and 32 respectively.
They, however, shed 5 wickets in the past two overs for just eight runs, such as that of Kaur, in a dramatic collapse.
Matthews was the pick of the Trailblazers bowlers with figures of 3 for 29 although Salma Khatun took two for 30 operates.
The Supernovas created a rollicking commence, achieving to the tournament’s ideal-at any time electricity-perform score of 58 for 1 with opener Dottin (32 off just 17 balls) in ominous kind.
Dottin hit Renuka Singh for a few fours in the 3rd more than from which the Supernovas took 14 runs. She was, having said that, operate out in the fifth above when backing out much too significantly from her crease. She hit five fours and just one six in all.
The other opener Priya Punia (22) continued a bit for a longer time right before she was out in the eighth around. Younger Deol showed large sort and shared 37 operates for the 3rd wicket with captain Kaur.
She hit Matthews for consecutive fours in the eighth above but could not transform her start out to a large rating, finding out in the 12th in excess of.
Kaur, coming out at the slide of Punia in the eighth around, took the onus of steadying the ship on herself as a result of her side missing wickets in clusters.
Sune Luus (10) fell to Rajeshwari Gayakwad (1/34) in the 15th over right before King (5) grew to become Khatun’s next wicket of the day.
Vastrakar and Kaur had been out in the room of a few balls in the 19th in excess of just before Supernovas misplaced yet another three wickets in the spectacular remaining about.
The 22-yr-outdated Vastrakar claimed the wickets of Trailblazers’ captain Smriti Mandhana (34), her opening husband or wife Hayley Matthews (18), No. 4 Sophia Dunkley (1) and Salma Khatun () in two separate spells to tear aside the batting line-up of the defending champions.
England left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone and Australia all-rounder Alana King chipped in with two wickets apiece as Trailblazers could only rating 114 for 9 in 20 overs although chasing 164.
The Supernovas experienced previously scored the tournament’s best-ever rating of 163 all out right after opting to bat.
Trailblazers designed a solid start to their chase with Mandhana and Matthews placing on 39 runs for the opening wicket in 5 overs.
But Vastrakar struck triple blows on Trailblazers to depart the defending champions in deep trouble.
She to start with had the wicket of Matthews off the final ball of the fifth over and then dismissed skipper Mandhana and Dunkley in the place of four balls in the eighth about.
Wickets kept on tumbling in swift succession as Sharmin Akhter () was out in the next above for a duck to be King’s initial sufferer of the day.
Operates had been difficult to arrive by for Trailblazers as they attained 71 for 4 at the halfway mark. But two brief wickets in the 11th over bowled by Ecclestone almost finished the contest.
Ecclestone experienced Richa Gosh (2) off the 2nd ball of the more than and Arundhati Reddy () was run out in the subsequent shipping as Trailblazers batters looked in a hurry to return to the hut.
Harmanpreet Kaur introduced Vastrakar for her next spell and the pacewoman bought quick achievements by obtaining Khatun to lower Trailblazers to 73 for 7 at the finish of 12 overs.
Asking fee had climbed a lot more than 11 runs an over by then and one particular-down Jemimah Rodrigues (24) tried using to make a match out of it but she also fell in the 14th more than to Meghna Singh to extinguish any hopes of Trailblazers’ combat back.
Earlier, Supernovas captain Kaur major-scored with 37 off 29 balls even though Harleen Deol and Deandra Dottin chipped in with 35 and 32 respectively.
They, however, shed 5 wickets in the past two overs for just eight runs, such as that of Kaur, in a dramatic collapse.
Matthews was the pick of the Trailblazers bowlers with figures of 3 for 29 although Salma Khatun took two for 30 operates.
The Supernovas created a rollicking commence, achieving to the tournament’s ideal-at any time electricity-perform score of 58 for 1 with opener Dottin (32 off just 17 balls) in ominous kind.
Dottin hit Renuka Singh for a few fours in the 3rd more than from which the Supernovas took 14 runs. She was, having said that, operate out in the fifth above when backing out much too significantly from her crease. She hit five fours and just one six in all.
The other opener Priya Punia (22) continued a bit for a longer time right before she was out in the eighth around. Younger Deol showed large sort and shared 37 operates for the 3rd wicket with captain Kaur.
She hit Matthews for consecutive fours in the eighth above but could not transform her start out to a large rating, finding out in the 12th in excess of.
Kaur, coming out at the slide of Punia in the eighth around, took the onus of steadying the ship on herself as a result of her side missing wickets in clusters.
Sune Luus (10) fell to Rajeshwari Gayakwad (1/34) in the 15th over right before King (5) grew to become Khatun’s next wicket of the day.
Vastrakar and Kaur had been out in the room of a few balls in the 19th in excess of just before Supernovas misplaced yet another three wickets in the spectacular remaining about.
