“Throwing 19-Year-Old Under The Bus…”: Ex-India Star Criticises Harmanpreet Kaur’s Comments After Loss vs Australia

The Indian ladies’s cricket staff gave its all within the second T20I towards Australia on Sunday however misplaced the match. Deepti Sharma’s all-round effort went in useless as Australia cantered to a six-wicket win towards India within the second ladies’s T20 to stage the three-match sequence right here on Sunday. After India’s frontline batters reduce a sorry determine squandering begins, Deepti made a significant 31 to push the staff’s complete to 130/8. She then produced a tremendous spell of 4-0-22-2 to please a nearly-packed home right here on the DY Patil Stadium, however India simply didn’t have sufficient on the board to problem Australia.

With 15 wanted to win off 12 balls, Phoebe Litchfield (18 not out off 12 balls, 3x4s) struck two fours in first three balls of the penultimate over from Shreyanka Patil to sprint India’s hopes. Playing her three hundredth worldwide sport throughout codecs, the legendary Ellyse Perry celebrated the feat with a tremendous knock of 34 not out (21 balls, 3x4s, 2x6s) and took Australia over the road with a six to win the sport.

After the match, former India males’s cricket staff star Dodda Ganesh’s publish on India captain Harmanpreet Kaur post-match feedback went viral. “Throwing a 19yo kid under the bus is not done #INDvAUS,” Ganesh, who performed 4 Tests and one ODI, wrote on X.

He was commenting on one other X publish which quotes Harmanpreet as saying: “In 19th over, if Shreyanka was on target, it would have made a huge difference for us.”

Throwing a 19yo child below the bus shouldn’t be accomplished #INDvAUS https://t.co/01JuaxJLxG

— Dodda Ganesh | (@doddaganesha) January 7, 2024

Talking concerning the matches, Australia knocked off 47 runs from the goal within the powerplay with each Beth Mooney and Alyssa Healy (26) going through no difficulties towards the Indian bowlers.

But Patil took a spectacular diving catch to assist eliminate Healy within the eighth over for India’s first success off Deepti.

Patil, at lengthy on, ran just a few paces in entrance of her and put in a dive as she collected the ball.

It was Deepti once more getting the second breakthrough with Mooney (20 off 29 balls, 2x4s) being stumped within the tenth over.

The sequence decider will now be performed on Tuesday right here on the similar venue.

Earlier, with the batters failing to transform begins, India ended up with a below-par complete.

Smriti Mandhana (23), Richa Ghosh (23) and even Jemimah Rodrigues (13) couldn’t capitalise after making promising begins.

But Deepti fought until the tip to push the staff’s complete so far as she may, with wickets falling steadily from the opposite finish.

Kim Garth (2/27) dealt an early blow to India trapping Shafali Verma (1) leg-before wickets and had additional success getting an on-song Rodrigues who obtained off the blocks shortly with three fours.

Having smashed virtually 10 runs per over within the powerplay throughout the first sport, India may solely handle a mere 33/2 with Mandhana hitting just a few engaging strokes.

The India vice-captain flicked Garth over deep sq. leg for a six and one other hit over the quilt fell in need of the boundary ropes for a 4.

However, Mandhana couldn’t management a brief ball from Annabel Sutherland within the eighth over as she pulled one straight to Ellyse Perry at deep midwicket.

India’s distress compounded with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur’s (six off 12 balls) one more failure with the bat.

Harmanpreet had an ideal alternative to raise India out of doldrums however the captain perished on what has been her bread and butter shot — the sweep.

Ghosh smacked an enormous six off Gardner in the identical over however she too couldn’t push on for a giant rating.

With all eyes fixated on the wicketkeeper-batter for a much-needed push, Ghosh was unable to attach a slower supply from Georgia Wareham which struck her on the pads in entrance of the wickets.

Australia’s enchantment was declined on the sphere and even Wareham felt the ball had pitched outdoors leg, however skipper Alyssa Healy went forward with a DRS enchantment which overturned in favour of the guests.

Wareham went on to assert Pooja Vastrakar (9) for her second scalp in a tremendous spell of 4-0-17-2, however this time each the bowler and the skipper have been on the identical web page for an accurate DRS name.

With PTI inputs