{"id":3667,"date":"2022-03-19T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T05:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=204798"},"modified":"2022-03-19T11:09:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T05:39:56","slug":"icc-womens-world-cup-2022-india-set-a-target-of-278-runs-for-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/icc-womens-world-cup-2022-india-set-a-target-of-278-runs-for-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Women\u2019s World Cup 2022: India set a target of 278 runs for Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Batting first, India Women set a huge target of 278 runs in front of Australia at Eden Park, Auckland. Half-centuries from captain Mithali Raj, Harmanpreet Kaur, and Yastika Bhatia steered India to 277\/7 in their most important Women\u2019s World Cup game against Australia here on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Australia won the toss and decided to bowl first in this match, but due to the excellent performance of the Indian middle order, India has been able to reach this huge score. After opening blows of Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, captain Mithali Raj, and Harmanpreet Kaur took charge of the innings and scored a brilliant half-century to take the Indian team to a score of 277 runs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Innings Break!<\/p>\n<p>Solid show by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> to post 2\u20e37\u20e37\u20e3\/7\u20e3 on the board! \ud83d\udc4f \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CWC22?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CWC22<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvAUS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvAUS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>6\u20e38\u20e3 for captain <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/M_Raj03?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@M_Raj03<\/a> <br \/>5\u20e39\u20e3 for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YastikaBhatia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YastikaBhatia<\/a> <br \/>5\u20e37\u20e3* for vice-captain <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImHarmanpreet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ImHarmanpreet<\/a> <br \/>3\u20e34\u20e3 for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vastrakarp25?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Vastrakarp25<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Over to our bowlers now. \ud83d\udc4d <\/p>\n<p>Scorecard \u25b6\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SLZ4bayb4f\">https:\/\/t.co\/SLZ4bayb4f<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EAqhkwqL4O\">pic.twitter.com\/EAqhkwqL4O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCIWomen\/status\/1505038558855581701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Captain Mithali Raj(68 off 96) and Yashika Bhatia(59 off 83) put on 130 runs for the third wicket and Harmanpreet Kaur, who came to the break of this partnership, also hit a flamboyant half-century and scored 57 not out off 47 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Australia now has to achieve a huge target of 278 runs to win this match, which is going to be a big challenge for the Australian team. Today\u2019s match is very important for India to reach the semi-finals and if India is successful in winning this match then its chances of reaching the semi-finals will be very strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half-centuries from captain Mithali Raj, Harmanpreet Kaur, and Yastika Bhatia steered India to 277\/7 in their most important Women\u2019s World Cup game against Australia here on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":26729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[963,2778,937,976],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-harmanpreet-kaur","tag-india-women-cricket","tag-mithali-raj","tag-smriti-mandhana"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}