IND W vs SA W Highlights: Heartbreak as Ind eliminated after last ball loss

Women's World Cup: It was heartbreaking loss for India as a no-ball off the second last ball saw Mignon du Preez return after being caught and then hit the winning runs on the very last ball to win it

9:10 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 223-3 | Over 40- India going great

 

Two of India's most experienced players in captain Mithali Raj and vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur are at the crease and India have crossed the 220 mark with 40 overs to go. In the last 10 overs, with the likes of Pooja Vastrakar, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh and Sneh Rana to c some, 300 looks like a great probability. Can India get there?

9:03 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 211-3 | Over 38-Mithali getting it going

 

As Sanjay Manjrekar has said in the commentary box, this has to be the best innings of Mithali Raj in quite some time now. She has now scored 60 off just 74 balls and put India on course to get to even 300 with 12 overs to go and seven wickets in hand at 211

8:59 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 204-3 | Over 37-50 up for Mithali, 200 for India

 

The Indian captain has played two crucial innings in this World Cup, scoring two fifties against two very great and tough opponents in Australia and South Africa, showing exactly how great a p[layer she is and just as I say, she plays a brilliant-cut shot on a ball that was bowled short and outside the off stump. Mithali now moves to second place in the list of most runs scored by players in the Women's World Cup. She now has 13008 runs in World Cup history, only behind New Zealand's Debbie Hockley

8:43 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 179-3 | Over 33-Mandhana goes for 71

8:42 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 176-3 | Over 32- Mandhana gone

 

Wow..what a great catch that was from Chloe Tryon to take the wicket of Smriti Mandhana. The Indian batter went down the ground trying to hit over the infield, but all she could do was get an outside edge and the ball went in the air and Tryon dived towards her right to take an excellent catch

8:34 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 173-2 | Over 31-India marching along

 

Four!! Cheeky from Mithali Raj as she guides this between short third-man and Point for a four. That's more like it from the experienced Mithali we know 

 

However, just eight from the over as no more boundary could be garnered. It's time for Drinks and India are well and truly ahead in the game 

8:31 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 165-2 | Over 30-Good intent from India

 

Mithali Raj has shown great intent in this over as she hit a beautiful cover drive and then pulled a short ball for two runs as well to get a total of 11 runs from the 30th over bowled by Marizanne Kapp. 

8:26 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 154-2 | Over 29- ICYMI Fifty for Mandhana

8:24 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 150-2 | Over 28.3- Mandhana takes the attack to the opposition

 

After bringing up her second fifty to go along with a hundred in this World Cup, Smriti Mandhana has hit 11 off the 28th over and also brought upon the 50 partnership between her and her skipper Mithali Rajh in 70 balls. The two now need to get going and for India to score more than 270, these two need to be there till the end

 

In the 29th over now and Mithali Raj with a single has now brought up the 150 runs for the Indian team 

8:12 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 126-2 | Over 25- Brilliant effort from du Preez

 

In the air as Smriti Mandhana comes down the ground and lobs it in the air, well short of Mignon du Preez, who puts in valiant dive running from long-off, but that wasn't enough as Mandhan got tow off the last ball and got India past 125 at the end of the 25th over. 

8:09 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 120-2 | Over 24- India struggling to score

 

The Indian team, after losing Shafali Verma has gone back into a shell it seems as they also lost Yastika Bhati at the same time and since the fall of Verma's wicket at 91 in the 15th over, India have been able to score only 29 runs in the next 54 balls, which is slightly more than 3 runs an over. Both Mithali and Mandhan have been slow 

7:49 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 102-2 | Over 19- 100 up for India

 

Down the leg and Mithali, even though takes time to get going, found it way too easy and turned it towards leg side for a four to bring up the 100 for Team India 

7:43 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 96-2 | Over 17- Bhatia out in bizarre fashion

 

What was that? That has to be one of the weirdest dismissals as Yatika Bhatia drags a full toss down the leg, onto her stumps as she tries to sweep the ball. Once again, India are coming apart in the middle overs here and now the pressure will mount even more on Mandhana who sacrificed Verma to stay at the crease 

7:38 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 91-1 | Over 15- Unfortunate run out

 

That's the softest and one of the ugliest runouts that I have seen in this World Cup. Totally against the run of play, Smriti plays it straight to the fielder at short mid-on and runs with the shot and Verma, after starting early, stops in the middle and then both the players were hugging each other and Verma, who was the attacking player, chose to sacrifice her wicket for her senior partner Mandhana

7:30 AM

Live | India vs South Africa | CWC 2022 | Ind 90-0 | Over 14- Verma brings up 50 in style

 

Pressure? What pressure says Shafali Verma as she dispatches this full pitched delivery from Klass for f four straight down the ground to bring her maiden World Cup fifty

 

Six!! Mandhana? Is it really you? This has been clearly smoked from Nadhana as she deposited that down the deep square leg and into the grass banks for the first six of the innings. India moving along quite nicely here