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  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...