Indian girls’s cricket workforce clinches first ever gold medal for India in Asian Games

On Monday, September 25, the Indian girls’s cricket workforce etched their names in historical past, because the Women in Blue defeated Sri Lanka by 19 runs to earn the first-ever Cricket Gold medal on the Asian Games. This is the second gold India clinched within the ongoing 2023 Asian Games to date. The first gold was secured by India’s shooters Rudrankksh, Aishwary and Divyansh within the Men’s 10m Air Rifle Team occasion.

The girls’s cricket workforce completed this extraordinary victory by defending 116 runs to defeat Sri Lanka by 19 runs on the Pingfeng Cricket Field in Hangzhou, China, the place the video games are being held this yr.

Hangzhou Asian Games: India girls’s cricket workforce beat Sri Lanka by 19 runs to win gold medal. This is India’s second gold on this version of the Games pic.twitter.com/xBpVxSX3lT

— ANI (@ANI) September 25, 2023

Harmanpreet Kaur, India’s captain, gained the toss and selected to bat first within the remaining. Shafali Varma was the primary wicket to go, with Sugandika Kumari taking her first of the day. After that, Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues placed on an necessary 73-run stand to place India again within the recreation.

Mandhana, however, fell in need of her twenty third T20I half-century, being dismissed by Inoka Ranaweera after scoring 46 runs off 45 balls, smacking 5 boundaries and a single six.

India managed to put up 116 for 7 on the scoreboard after 20 overs. 

Team India and Team Sri Lanka are competing for the ladies’s gold medal in cricket at Zhejiang University of Technology Pingfeng Cricket Field.#Hangzhou #AsianGames #TeamIndia #TeamSriLanka #Cricket #HangzhouAsianGames #GoldMedal @WeAreTeamIndia @ACCMedia1 @ICC… pic.twitter.com/gwd1QzLzah

— nineteenth Asian Games Hangzhou 2022 Official (@19thAGofficial) September 25, 2023

India obtained off to a quick begin within the second innings, taking three early wickets. Titas Sadhu struck with the brand new ball, dismissing each openers Chamari Athapaththu and Anushka Sanjeewani, in addition to Vishmi Gunaratne, to scale back Sri Lanka to 14 for 3 in 4.2 overs.

Sri Lanka completed their innings with 97 for 8 after 20 overs, falling 19 runs brief.

Sadhu was India’s greatest bowler, taking three wickets and permitting six runs in 4 overs. With this, the Women in Blue managed to get India its second gold medal on the ongoing Asian Games 2023.

With this exceptional victory, India has till now gained 11 medals at Hangzhou 2023, two gold, three silvers and 6 bronze. 

In reality, on day 1 of the 2023 Asian Games itself, India had secured two silver medals; one in Women’s 10m air rifle capturing and the opposite in Men’s light-weight double sculls rowing.

India is being represented by a 655-member sturdy contingent in Hangzhou. The nineteenth version of the multi-sport occasion, which was opened on September 23 and extends till October 8, was initially slated for 2022 however was postponed by a yr as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.