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India’s Harmanpreet Kaur celebrates her century throughout the third ladies’s someday worldwide match on the Banks Homes Riverside, Chester-le-Street, England on July 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP
India and England are tied 1-1 having gained a recreation every within the collection up to now.
Harmanpreet was at her fluent finest as she solid sturdy partnerships on the way in which to her seventh ODI century general and third in opposition to England, hammering 14 fours throughout her keep within the center.
Harmanpreet’s knock gave India their second highest ODI rating in opposition to England, however at no stage their highest rating of 333/5 in opposition to this opponent, recorded in September 2022 in Canterbury, was underneath menace.
The India skipper performed spectacular stokes significantly on the off-side which she peppered with most of her 14 boundaries. Just a few of them got here down the bottom and one was hit behind the wicket.
Harmanpreet additionally stitched very important stands alongside the way in which, placing on 81 runs for the third wicket with Harleen Deol (45) to set the platform whereas her 110-run stand off solely 77 balls with Rodrigues gave India the push for a complete in extra of 300.
Richa Ghosh then offered the ending touches with a brisk 38 off 18 balls with three fours and two sixes, marking an all-round present for the guests who had earlier clinched the five-match T20I collection.
The platform, nevertheless, was set by a robust opening stand of 64 runs between Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal.
While each the batters have been in a position to play their roles to near-perfection — Mandhana being the aggressor and Rawal being the second fiddle — they may not get to their private milestones.
Mandhana took the initiative to assault early on and appeared in ominous contact till a false shot led to her exit.
The India vice-captain had finished effectively to crack 5 fours till she reached out to a brief and extensive ball from Sophie Ecclestone within the 18th over, which she pulled with appreciable effort, however straight to Sophia Dunkley at midwicket.
Mandhana made 45 off 54 balls with 5 fours.
Before that, Rawal’s resistance had ended within the thirteenth over when a faint edge was collected by ‘keeper Amy Jones off Charlie Dean, which wasn’t heard by the on-field umpire, however was found on a evaluation taken by England.
Rawal made 26 off 33 balls with two fours.
Rodrigues appeared to be in her rhythm when she cracked three consecutive fours off Dean within the forty first over of the innings and smacked two in a row once more within the spinner’s subsequent over.
However, she couldn’t push on past a 45-ball 50 which included seven fours.
On her half, Deol was additionally set for an enormous knock earlier than she was bounced out by seamer Lauren Bell, dismissed for 45 off 65 balls with 4 boundaries.
Published – July 22, 2025 05:36 pm IST
