Smriti Mandhana shone each on and off the sphere in India’s emphatic win over the West Indies in an ICC Girls’s World Cup 2022 match in Hamilton on Saturday. Mandhana, who top-scored for India with a sensational 123 off 119 balls, determined to share the ‘Participant of the Match’ award with one other centurion Harmanpreet Kaur within the post-match presentation. It was the good 184-run stand between Mandhana and Harmanpreet that propelled India to an enormous whole of 317 for 8 batting first.
“I believe scoring a century and never being a Participant of the Match is one thing I actually would not need as a participant. I believe we each contributed equally for us to attain 300. So, I believe it is good for us to share the trophy and I believe each are good contenders to get it. We learnt from our errors and that is one thing we thought we’re not going to repeat it,” stated Smriti Mandhana within the post-match presentation.
Photographs of Mandhana sharing the ‘Participant of The Match’ award with Harmanpreet, who scored 109 off 107 balls, went viral on social media with netizens hailing the left-hander for her heartening gesture.
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Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur share Participant of the Match Award.
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— Feminine Cricket #CWC22 (@imfemalecricket) March 12, 2022
@mandhana_smriti shares her Participant of the Match award with fellow centurion & #TeamIndia vice-captain @ImHarmanpreet !#CWC22 | #WIvIND
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— BCCI Girls (@BCCIWomen) March 12, 2022
Smriti Mandhana who was initially introduced because the Participant Of The Match instructed commentators to announce Harmanpreet Kaur as POTM as properly.
She stated,Harman deserved the award equally. ICC I imagine has sufficient finances to provide each of us seperate trophies @ImHarmanpreet @mandhana_smriti pic.twitter.com/UBs4CwOG7Q— Narendra Chemate (@Narendrachemate) March 12, 2022
@mandhana_smriti offers man of the match award to @ImHarmanpreet nice gesture #SmritiMandhanapic of the web @ICC#CWC22 #TeamIndia #IndvsWI #HarmanpreetKaur pic.twitter.com/Wi2PScjVo1
— PremnathPk (@Pk3Premnath) March 12, 2022
What a second that is Smriti Mandhana shares her participant of the match award with Harmanpreet Kaur #CWC22 #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/wpq1RWmgPQ
— (@MSDianMrigu) March 12, 2022
Two endearing footage from the ladies’s cricket World Cup:
The Indian staff taking a selfie with the Pakistan captain and her child after they beat Pakistan
@mandhana_smriti insisting she share the participant of the match award along with her teammate @ImHarmanpreet pic.twitter.com/7SfrV7fnUu— Sriram G (@shriiraam) March 12, 2022
Smriti Mandhana stated “We (Kaur & Smriti) contributed equally so it is good to share the participant of the match award trophy collectively – I’m positive ICC be giving one other trophy as properly (A giant smile)”. pic.twitter.com/eYa3t0ztiy
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) March 12, 2022
Was watching ICC vdo of award ceremony the place @mandhana_smriti ji got here with @ImHarmanpreet ji to carry PlayeroftheMatch Trophy.A noble gesture which all of us should reward & Tbh each Gamers have been extraordinarily deserving for this Trophy. Effectively achieved..
NVR seen such act in males’s cricket— Abhishek Bansod (@Bansod07) March 12, 2022
CWC 22 Match 10 Good gesture from Smriti Mandhana(123 runs) , she received the participant of the award however she referred to as Harmanpreet Kaur(109 runs) as properly to share the award – one of many stunning moments in World Cup! pic.twitter.com/rQJn7ixoAx
— Indian Girls’s Cricket Followers Community (@IWCFG) March 12, 2022
Speaking concerning the 184-run partnership with Harmanpreet, Smriti remarked, “As batters, we each choose chasing and setting the goal each collectively. Final sport we did not get going and in chasing it is essential to get the momentum.”
“Our strengths are actually completely different as a result of she is actually good with spin and I like tempo on the ball. So, when the spinner comes on I give her the strike and when the pacer comes on, she offers me the strike. I am positive ICC might be giving one other trophy and I am positive they’ve sufficient finances to try this,” she added.
West Indies collapsed for 162 within the 40.3 overs. Jhulan Goswami scalped her record-breaking wicket within the thirty sixth over whereas Sneh Rana ended the day with three wickets towards her title.
Harmanpreet Kaur has been below scanner for her extended lean patch in worldwide cricket however the skilled right-hander has responded properly with back-to-back impactful innings on this World Cup.
“From the outset, I really feel when her again is in direction of the wall, that is when she comes the perfect out and that is one thing which I’ve seen,” Smriti stated within the post-match media interplay.
“Her work ethic is actually up there in the entire staff. She retains going even when she doesn’t get the outcomes. World Cups are the place the place she comes good.”
The duo put collectively a file 184-run stand — India’s highest partnership for any wicket on the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup — because the final version’s runners up put up 317/8 their highest whole within the historical past of the showpiece occasion.
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“She is an important a part of our center order. Blissful she’s come again properly. She has been batting properly within the apply. We have been all the time assured that she would rating runs. Blissful that she scored back-to-back fifties. It would give her good confidence going ahead.”
(With company inputs)
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