The Indian team has defeated New Zealand by eight wickets in the semi-finals of the Women’s Under-19 T20 World Cup 2023. With this, Team India has also reached the World Cup finals. Batting first, New Zealand had set a target of 108 runs in front of India. The Indian team achieved this by losing two wickets and has made it to the final.
Now the U19 T20 World Cup 2023 final will be played on January 29 at 5:15 pm. India will face the winner of second semi finals, which will be played between Australia and England today evening.
India beat New Zealand in semis
India defeated New Zealand by eight wickets to enter the final of the Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup. In todays match, New Zealand had set a target of 108 runs in front of India, which Women In Blue achieved by losing two wickets. Parshvi Chopra took the maximum, three wickets for India. At the same time, vice-captain Shweta Sehrawat scored an unbeaten 61 runs.
India’s score had crossed 100 runs at the loss of two wickets. Shweta Sehrawat was then playing with a half-century and Trisha had entered to bat. The Indian team had reached the threshold of victory and was just a few runs away from making it to the finals of the tournament.
New Zealand had a very poor start
The team’s first wicket fell on the score of three runs and both the openers returned to the pavilion on the score of five runs. Anna Browning scored one and Emma McLeod scored two runs. After this, Georgia Plimmer took one end and Isabel scored 26 runs in 22 balls to return the Kiwi team to the match.
Captain Sharp was also dismissed after scoring 13 runs and half of the New Zealand team had returned to the pavilion for just 74 runs. After this, Emma Irwin was dismissed for three, Kate Irwin for two, Logneberg for four and Natasha for three. Meanwhile, Plimmer was also dismissed after scoring 35 runs in 32 balls in the process of scoring fast runs.
Knight’s innings of 12 runs took New Zealand’s score beyond 100 runs. In the end New Zealand team managed to score 107 runs losing nine wickets. Parshvi Chopra took the maximum three wickets for India. Titas Sadhu, Mannat Kashyap, Shefali Verma and Archana Devi got one wicket each.