Indian women’s team beat Pakistan in ICC World Cup

The Indian women’s cricket team scored an emphatic win over Pakistan and secured their third consecutive victory in the ICC Women’s World Cup on Sunday. India was defending a low total of 169, but left-arm spinner Ekta Bisht  (10-2-18-5) gave an outstanding performance which enabled the team to trounce their arch- rivals Pakistan by 95 runs in 38.1 overs. India now tops the table with six points after this win. What appeared to be a low score turned to be daunting and challenging for the Pakistan team as Bisht gave a stellar performance and wickets fell one after another. Bisht ripped apart the Pakistan batting by taking the wickets of Ayesha Zafar (1), Sidra Nawaz (0) and Iram Javed (0) in her first four overs. She later came back to take a couple of wickets again. Pakistan couldn’t recover from the initial setback. Only two players- Opener Nahida Khan (23 off 62 balls) and skipper Sana Mir (29) were able to reach double digit scores for Pakistan. Speaking highly of Bisht, Indian skipper Mithali Raj said that she was proud of Ekta’s performance and that she has always bowled well whenever she was handed the new ball. Earlier during India’s batting, there were some tense moments as India lost the top order batting. The fine batting partnership of Indian keeper Sushma Verma and Jhulan Goswami helped India post a total of 170. Ekta Bisht was given the Man-of-the-Match award for her outstanding bowling performance.