NAVI MUMBAI: Left to lick their wounds after a 3-0 shellacking by the Aussies on the latter’s home turf recently, the Indian women’s cricket team has given their supporters something to cheer. In the process, Hamanpreet Kaur & Co would’ve also regained some of their confidence, which would’ve been shattered after the drubbing in Australia.
Shrugging off jet lag after playing an ODI series which ended in Perth only on Wednesday, India, egged on by a strong 29,000 holiday crowd at the DY Patil Stadium here on Sunday night, scored a convincing 49-run victory over a lacklustre West Indies, who hardly played like the 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup semifinalists, in the opening WT20I here. The second match of the three-game series will be played on Tuesday at the same venue.
