Jemimah Rodrigues brilliant all-round show helped India draw level with Bangladesh. Jemimah Rodrigues' brilliant all-round show helped India avenge their shock defeat at the hands of Bangladesh in the first game to level the ongoing three-match ODI series 1-1, on Wednesday (July 19) in Dhaka. Rodrigues first rescued India from a precarious 68/3 with a top-scoring effort of 86 and then picked up 4 for 3 with the ball to roll out the hosts for just 120 in reply to India's 228. Rodrigues, batting at No.5 in the series, walked in at the fall of Smriti Mandhana's wicket (36 off 58) after India's sedate start. She combined with Harmanpreet Kaur, who struck a half-century herself, for a match-winning 131-run partnership that put India on the brink of 200. The Indian captain fell soon after her fifty, on 52, but Rodrigues continued to notch up her ODI career-best 86 that came off just 78 deliveries on a slow and low pitch. Her knock, laced with nine boundary hits, propelled I...
Yastika's versatility was amply on display across the three ODIs of her debut series where she went from steadying the ship alongside Mithali Raj with a 51 ball 53in Game 1 to taking point in India's highest ODI chase in Game 3, with her maiden international fifty - a fluent 69-ball 64 that helped snap Australia's world-record winning streak of 26 matches. Back home, she devoured the Chhattisgarh bowling attack for breakfast on her 21st birthday, hitting a magnificent 107 off 91 deliveries at one-down in the Senior One-Day Trophy, before top-scoring with a tally of 199 - two fifties included - for champions India A in the Senior Women's One Day Challengers Trophy 2021-22, in Mulapadu. Her inclusion in the World Cup starting XI seemed a no-brainer on the evidence of her confident runs in India's 4-1 drubbing at the hands of hosts New Zealand in the lead-up. Except, she was inexplicably left out. Once again. A challenge disguised as an opportunity presented itself s...