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IND vs WI: Smriti Mandhana finds a support cast, Renuka Singh Thakur gets a five-for in India’s thumping win

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IND vs WI: Smriti Mandhana finds a support cast, Renuka Singh Thakur gets a five-for in India’s thumping win

There was a sense of new in Vadodara on Sunday. Brand new international stadium, a new ODI kit for India, and Harmanpreet Kaur starting the day by saying at the toss that she feels like a new player making her debut after missing out on the last two T20Is due to an injury. To go well with that setting, it was a refreshingly fresh display of positive cricket by India as they demolished West Indies by 212 runs in the first ODI at the Kotambi Stadium to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. In terms of margin of runs, this was India’s second-biggest win in women’s ODI history.The most familiar aspect for India on the day was Smriti Mandhana continuing her stellar form, on a patch now deeply purple. She missed out on a record-extending fifth ODI century of the year by just 9 runs, but her...

WATCH: Harmanpreet Kaur pulls off a stunning one-handed catch in first ODI against West Indies

She is no stranger to taking blinders, and India captain Harmanpreet Kaur added one more to her collection of special catches in the first ODI against West Indies in Vadodara on Sunday. Already tottering at 26/4 while chasing 315, the West Indies were in need of some big shots to ease the pressure. In the 11th over, Aaliyah Alleyne decided to take on Renuka Singh Thakur down the ground, and must have thought she had managed to get herself a boundary. But standing at mid-on, Harmanpreet had other ideas. She timed her jump to perfection to pluck the ball with her right hand. A stunning catch by the Indian captain, and it was followed by equally stunned reactions all around – the batter couldn’t believe it, neither could Renuka, and even players in the Windies dugout were left with hands on ...

‘Ask the right person’: Captain Harmanpreet Kaur on Shafali, Arundhati exclusions from West Indies series

Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur on Saturday backed the Indian women’s team to regain confidence in home conditions during the three-match T20I series against the West Indies, following a disappointing T20 World Cup campaign and a 0-3 defeat in Australia. Having failed to progress beyond the group stage in the T20 World Cup in October, India bounced back with a 2-1 ODI series win against New Zealand at home. However, their 0-3 loss in the ODI series in Australia has once again put the team under significant pressure. “After the World Cup, we played against New Zealand, we did really well in the home conditions and Australia tour result was not something which we were expecting but lot of learnings for us,” Kaur told the media here before India’s training session ahead of the first T20I against the...