| August 8, 2022 at 12:27 PM
Sourav Ganguly, the President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has praised the Indian women’s cricket team for winning a silver medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games. However, he additionally said that the team would be disheartened on missing gold as it was “their game”. India lost the gold medal match against Australia by 9 runs at Edgbaston, Birmingham as they failed to chase down 162.
Australia skipper Meg Lanning chose to bat first and posted 161/8 infeasible from Mooney’s knocks of 61 runs. For India, Renuka Singh and Sneh Rana got back with two wickets each.
In the pursuit of 162, India were controlling everything with Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues pushing ahead. Though, the side imploded from 118/2 to 152 hard and fast, and eventually, Australia wrapped up a success.
Earlier on Sunday, New Zealand had won the bronze medal in women’s cricket after defeating England.
After silver, Harmanpreet addressed NDTV and said:
“Yeah definitely it is a big moment for all of us. First time, we were participating and the way we played this tournament, it was great to watch. We were close to gold medal, but once again we did the same mistakes we have been doing in the big tournaments. You know, we have to keep working hard on lower-order batting. I am sure we will do well in the upcoming tournaments. I think this silver medal matters a lot, this will definitely motivate young girls back home,”
Harmanpreet said.
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Before the CWG gold award match, Australia’s Tahlia McGrath tried positive for COVID-19, yet she was permitted to play the final.
“Well, they did inform us before the toss, it was something which was not in our control. We went with the sportsman spirit, she was not that ill, we did what we had to do, it was not in our control,”
said the India skipper.
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