India reaches semi-finals of Asian Games 2023: The first quarter-final of the women’s cricket team in the Asian Games 2023 has been canceled due to rain. With this, India has also made it to the semi-finals. Despite the match being canceled due to India’s good ranking, India has got a ticket for the semi-finals. At the same time, the success of the opposing team Malaysia has ended here. Now India will take the field to play the semi-finals on 24th September.
Shefali Verma scored a stormy 67 runs
The first quarter-final match was being played between Malaysia at the Pingfeng Campus Stadium in Hangzhou. Even before the match started, rain disrupted the match, due to which the match had to be reduced from 20 overs to 15 overs. Malaysia won the toss and decided to bowl first. Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma, who came to open the innings for India, made their intentions clear as soon as they arrived. India put Malaysian bowlers under pressure from the very first over. India scored a stormy 173 runs in this 15 over match. For India, Shefali Verma has played a stormy innings of 67 runs.
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Fans were anxious to see the edge of the bowlers
The Indian team had given a huge target of 174 runs to Malaysia. It was not easy for Malaysia to overcome this. After seeing the quality of batting, Indian fans were getting excited to see the quality of bowlers, but in this episode the rain knocked once again. The Malaysian team had just come out to bat. In the 2 ball game, Malaysia scored one run and it started raining. It was expected that after the rain stopped, there would be a close contest, but the rain did not stop, due to which the match had to be canceled and India entered the semi-finals without winning the match.