The Indian women's cricket team that secretly departed for South Africa on Monday made the perfect start to the quadrangular series by clinically winning the practice match against Zimbabwe at Potchefstroom on Thursday. Amid the tussle between BCCI and ICC, the former failed to make the formal announcement of the team for the tournament that is to be played in South Africa just before the ICC Women's World Cup. Ireland and South Africa are the other two countries playing the series.
Shikha Pandey scalped a five wicket haul and was the wrecker in chief to bundle out Zimbabwe for a dismal 106 in 41 overs. Chipo Mugeri (46) was the only one who made a worthy contribution to the total.
In response, India eves achieved the target quite comfortably winning the match by six wickets, with five balls to spare. Skipper Mithali Raj played a captain's knock by scoring an unbeaten 94 off 87 balls and found an able ally in Jhulan Goswami who muscled a quickfire 54 off 38 balls. Mbofana and Nkomo picked up couple of wickets apiece.
India take on Ireland on May 7 at Potchefstroom.
Brief scores: Zimbabwe Women 106 all out in 41 overs (C Mugeri 46; S Pandey 5-20) lost to India Women 291 all out in 49.5 overs (M Raj 94, J Goswami 54; E Mbofana 2-64, J Nkomo 2-38)
Source: Cricinfo
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