‘Female version of Virat Kohli’ -Fans stunned after Shafali Varma gives an angry send-off to Beth Mooney in 20-20 World Cup semi-final clash
Australia will face South Africa or England in the semi-final.
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Feb 24, 2023 5:58 pm
Shafali Verma (Source: Twitter)
Australia beat India in the 20-20 World Cup semi-final in South Africa by five runs. The match turned out to be cliffhanger as India scored 167-8 in reply to Australia’s 172-4. India were found wanting in the field, field placements were poor, and the bowlers did not step up.
Beth Mooney made 54 off 37 balls with seven fours and one six. Her innings took the wind out of India’s sails. Mooney was first dropped by Shafali Verma who took Mooney’s catch the second time. When Varma took the catch to dismiss Mooney, she was seen mouthing some abusive words after she took the catch. Then she threw the ball on the ground in anger.
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Ashleigh Gardner, Jess Johansen and Darcie Brown stared with the ball for Australia
Australia smashed 172-4 in their 20 overs with contributions from Alyssa Healy who made a quickfire 25 off 26 balls with three fours. Meg Lanning made an unbeaten 49 off 34 balls with four fours and two sixes. Ashleigh Gardner made 31 off 18 balls with five fours.
For Australia with the ball in the second innings, Gardner picked up 2-37 in her four overs. Darcie Brown picked up 2-18 in her four overs. Jess Johansen picked up 1-22 in her three overs. With the bat for India in the chase, they were reeling at 28-3. The bright spots for the Women in Blue with the bat were Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues who scored 52 off 34 balls with six fours and one six and 43 off 24 balls with six fours.
Australia made their way to another World Cup final after they beat India. They will face either England or South Africa in the final. Australia won the last 20-20 World Cup on home soil at the MCG in 2020. In the final between India and Australia there was a record attendance of 86,174. India have lost two Australia on two occasions in the recent past as the lost the final of the Commonwealth Games 2022 against Australia. Let us take a look at the reactions on Twitter-
This gesture of Shefali was not required. She missed an easy catch, which proved to be very costly for the team.Moreover her performance was not upto the mark during entire World Cup. She is a young players and she has to learn a lot.
Roadside behaviour. She's just 19. Doesn't suit. Make some big strides and contribute to the team first for many years. Then even your gaali sounds sweet. And the finger gesture was very poor. Even Kohli doesn't do that.
@BCCI WWCT20 IndvAus Everything went for wrong for India and lost. Poor fielding &balling&self destructive runouts. Above all on field unwarranted behaviour of Shefali Verma after taking catch&shouting&hitting ball to ground in anger & captain frustration & hitting bat on runout
