Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana’s opening stand helped India secure a comprehensive win against Bangladesh in the T20I series at the Siliguri International Cricket Stadium on Thursday. India secured an unbeatable 3-0 lead with a comfortable 7-wicket victory over Bangladesh. Shafali played a knock of 51 runs off 38 balls, while Mandhana contributed with 47 runs, sealing the victory for India.

New Delhi: Team India captain Harmanpreet Kaur praised Shafali Verma’s match-winning performance and said that a dynamic opener like her is someone the team can always rely on to score runs in powerplays.

The opening stand by Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana helped India secure a comprehensive win against Bangladesh in the T20 series at the Siliguri International Cricket Stadium on Thursday.

India has taken an unbeatable 3-0 lead, with Saif Ali playing a brisk innings of 51 runs off 38 balls after Bangladesh lost 7 wickets. Mandhana contributed with 47 runs, ensuring formality for India, while a new partnership of 91 runs was established. Ritu Moni surprised with her own bowling.

“Smriti and Saif Ali, where we’re batting well, hoping they can win the match for us, after the 10th over, the ball was kept quite low, and their bowlers were also very tight, they are players who can always score a lot of runs for us.” “It was great to see her performing well during the powerplay. Today she’s running for the team, and I’m really glad that they’re all rallying, and Deepthi has also thrown important overs for us.” “They’re bowling with a sense of pride, understanding where to bowl and executing their plans well. Harmanpreet said in the presentation after the match.”

“Wrapped up with economical spells, while the all-rounder also threw a quick throw from the point to dismiss Murshida Khatun (9 out of 16).”

Deepthi Sharma is such an experienced player. Whenever we’re in trouble, I hand her the ball, and she’s been performing really well. I’m hopeful she’ll continue to do good for us consistently. We still have three days until our next game. We’ll sit down and think that whoever plays will take responsibility for the team and perform well. The coaching staff is very calm, and the message was clear that we need clarity of thought at this level. They always give us responsibilities. Preeti Kaur said, “I’m really happy that we’re working towards minimizing our losses.”

On Monday, India will face Bangladesh at Silhet International Cricket Stadium with a lead of 3-0 in the 5-match T20 series.