New Zealand Women v http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 Women - Kiwis beat India Women by 25 runs – Match Recap
Kiwi batter, Liz Perry, smashed an unbeaten 48, which enabled New Zealand to win the T20 match against India easily in the NatWest Women’s T20 Quadrangular Series, played at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Close-c51347 Ground (neutral Venue) on June 25, 2011.
Indian Women won the toss and put New Zealand Women in to bat first with an anticipation to get them out cheaply.
The Captain of Blackcaps, Aimee Watkins opened the innings with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jhulan-Goswami-c66974, without scoring a run.
The first wicket fell at just two runs and Indian bowling became unplayable for the Kiwi batters. They lost three early wickets for just five runs on board when Perry came to the crease and joined her Captain.
The two tried to consolidate the innings and added 23 runs for the fourth wicket. Watkins was the next victim of Indian bowling after scoring 14 runs off 11 balls, with a six and four.
The wicket keeper batter, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Katey-Jane-Martin-c70440, was the next batter who came in to take her turn and joined Perry.
The duo resisted the Indian attack in a positive manner and kept on scoring when possible. They shared a 62-run partnership for the fifth wicket, when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Christopher-Alroy-Martin-c50714 had to go back to the pavilion after a personal contribution of 29 runs off 42 balls.
The new batter http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nicola-Jane-Browne-c79480 and Perry took over from there and played attacking cricket until the last ball of the innings was bowled and took the score to 125 runs for the loss of five wickets in 20 overs.
Perry remained unbeaten on 48 runs, scored off 41 balls, with the assistance of 4 fours. Browne was not out on 22 runs off 15 balls with the help of a four.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gouher-Sultana-c60424 shared one wicket each.
In their turn, India lost their three wickets at 26. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mithali-Raj-c76407 and Veda Krishnamurthy joined together and put up some resistance to the Blackcaps bowling, and shared 21 runs for the fourth wicket.
Krishnamurthy was the next batter to go back after scoring 13 runs and Sharma joined in with Raj. The duo played well and things started looking bright for India. They produced 39 runs partnership for the fifth wicket.
Sharma lost her wicket after contributing 26 runs off 19 balls which comprised three boundaries. The fifth wicket was lost at 86 runs and India managed 100 runs in the allotted 20 overs for the loss of seven wickets, while Raj scored 24 runs.
Browne was the highest wicket taker for Kiwi’s with two wickets, while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lucy-Rose-Doolan-c73250 and Bates claimed one wicket each.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 Women won the match by 25 runs, gained four points and Perry was declared the ‘Player of the match’.
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