Indian women’s team beats hapless South Africa by 88 runs

India produced a clinical all-round performance to thrash hosts South Africa by 88 runs in the first one-dayer of the ICC Women’s Championship at Diamond Oval on Monday.

Opener Smriti Mandhana (84 off 98) scored a strokeful fifty while pace duo of Jhulan Goswami (4/24) and Shikha Pandey (3/23) shared seven wickets between them to emerge as the architects of India’s victory.

Brief Scores:

India women’s team: 213 for 7 in 50 overs (S Mandhana 84; M Kapp 2/26)

South Africa women’s team: 125 all out in 43.2 overs (D van Niekerk 41; Jhulan Goswami 4/24).