THE HIMALAYAN MAIL JAMMU Q MONDAY Q MARCH 15, 2021 11 Smashing Shaw, cool Tare guide South Africa women shock India, claim Mumbai to Vijay Hazare Trophy title series with 7-wicket win in 4th ODI LUCKNOW, MARCH both their matches in the NEW DELHI, (42 off 28 balls; 6x4, 1x6) 14: The South African five-match series while MARCH 14: Skipper played a fitting cameo. women’s team’s top-order chasing. Prithvi Shaw’s marauding Tare completed his cen- batters fired in unison and After Mithali’s dismissal, 73 off 39 balls followed by tury in 91 balls, his first in helped their team clinch the Raut joined forces with the former skipper Aditya List A cricket, with a single. five-match series against flamboyant Harmanpreet Tare’s unbeaten hundred The Tare-Dube duo took India with a seven-wicket to add another 88 runs in guided Mumbai to their Mumbai on the cusp of a victory in the fourth ODI quick time. most deserving Vijay Haz- win, adding 88 runs for the here on Sunday. Harmanpreet was in her are title triumph with a fourth wicket before the for- Chasing 267, Lizelle Lee element straightaway, hit- crushing six -wicket victory mer skipper played a back (69), Laura Wolvaardt (53), ting two boundaries to kick- over Uttar Pradesh in one of cut between point and short Mignon du Preez (61) and start her innings. In her most lopsided finals on third man to complete the Lara Goodall (59 not out) inimitable style, the India Sunday. formalities. shone as the visitors com- T20 captain went about Opting to bat, UP rode on Earlier, UP rode on pleted the task in 48.4 overs long enough after Lee’s dis- while trying to loft one over playing her strokes as the opener Madhav Kaushik’s opener Madhav Kaushik’s for an unassailable 3-1 lead missal, getting out shortly mid-on. 200 came up in the 41st unbeaten 158 to post 312/4, unbeaten 158 to post 312 for in the rubber. after reaching her half cen- But Goodall stayed till the over. but it was overshadowed by four. A poor squad selection by tury. end to guide her team to vic- What aided Harman- the Shaw blitzkrieg which Kaushik, who hammered new committee under Goodall got a life when tory. preet’s free-flowing game set the platform for Tare to 15 fours and four sixes, in Neetu David cost India Sushma Verma missed a Earlier, the 31-year-old was the presence of a well- finish off the chase in style his 156-ball knock and dearly as the hosts paid the stumping and in the next Raut struck 10 boundaries settled Raut at the other with as many as 51 balls re- second over off Aaqib Khan. over. Samarth Singh (55 off 73 price for ignoring Shafali delivery, the batter stepped in her unbeaten 104. end, who was content to maining. He then took on Dayal, Veteran Tare, who ham- balls; 4x4; 3x6) added 122 Verma’s flair in batting and out and played an inside- Harmanpreet smashed keep the scoreboard ticking This is Mumbai’s fourth hammering two boundaries mered 18 boundaries in his runs for the first wicket to Shikha Pandey’s experience out shot for a boundary. seven fours and a six, reach- as her swashbuckling part- Hazare title and the one to and a six over mid-wicket, 107-ball knock, anchored lay the foundation of a big in bowling. After that, Goodall hit off- ing her half-century in only ner went after the South remember for Shaw (827 his trademark pull-shot, as the innings and found an score. The win meant seasoned spinner Deepti Sharma 33 balls before falling to a African bowlers. runs), who now holds the Mumbai raced to 32/0 after able ally in Shams Mulani It will be some consola- Punam Raut’s third ODI waist-high full toss outside slower ball. Soon after, Raut Having played some fan- record for highest runs three overs. (36), as the duo took the tion that Kaushik is now the hundred and veteran Har- off to the cover boundary. got to her century in 119 tastic shots during her stay scored in single edition of Shaw continued his on- game deep, as Mumbai highest individual scorer in manpreet Kaur’s scintillat- Du Preez then smashed balls with a single. in the middle, Raut, a vet- this competition. slaught and notched up his cruised to the target, with a National One Day Cham- ing 35-ball 54 went in vain. left-arm spinner Radha Ya- Prior to that, Raut added eran of 70 ODIs, got to the Shaw (73 off 39 balls; 50 in only 30 balls, with a 174/2 after 25 overs. pionship final, surpassing South Africa were in the dav for three successive 103 runs for the third wicket 90s when she deftly guided 10x4, 4x6) and fellow six, another pull shot, but Tare and Mulani kept Mayank Agarwal’s 125 game when the opening boundaries—two through with skipper Mithali Raj (45 Ismail to the third-man opener Yashasvi Jaiswal then holed in the deep off playing shots at will as the against Punjab in 2014. duo of last match centurion the point region and one off 71 balls), who became boundary. (29; 3x4; 1x6) gave the side Shivam Mavi when another duo added crucial 88-runs Brief Scores: Uttar Lizelle Lee and skipper into the deep square leg the only player in women’s Amid the flurry of bound- an aggressive start by con- hundred looked imminent. for the third wicket. But Pradesh 312/4 (Madhav Laura Wolvaardt were go- fence—as the visitors cricket to complete 7,000 aries, medium pacer Ma- juring 89 runs in 9.1 overs. Jaiswal and Tare added Mulani perished in the 31st Kaushik 158 not out, Ak- ing great guns, putting on brought the equation to 61 ODI runs before getting out rizanne Kapp produced an Shaw started with a 38-run stand but the left over, with Mumbai still shdeep Nath 55; Tanush 116 runs in 23 overs. runs in the last 10 overs. in the second powerplay. excellent 46th over and cover-drive, off left arm handed opener gave needing another 98 runs. Kotian 2/54, Prashant Mixing caution with ag- Du Preez had, in fact, set Failing to make most of a conceded just four runs. seamer Yash Dayal. He got Shivam Sharma his first However, Tare kept the Solanki 1/71) lost to Mum- gression, both kept the the ball rolling by hitting chance she got in the previ- Anne Bosch continued the a life on 5, after being wicket, after being caught momentum going as he bai 315/4 (Aditya Tare 118 scorecard moving at a fairly Poonam Yadav for a six and ous over, Mithali drove one good work and gave away dropped by Karan Sharma by Mavi but Mumbai were hammered Dayal for three not out, Prithvi Shaw 73, rate until Harmanpreet four in the 34th over, lifting in the air for Shabnim Is- only five in the next over. at mid-off, and he then already on course with a boundaries in the 33rd Shivam Mavi 1/63) by six Kaur effected a having the her team from 148/4 to 162. mail to complete a good But Harmanpreet broke smashed three fours in the run-rate of 8.5 runs per over, even as Shivam Dube wickets. dangerous Lee trapped in They needed 97 in the last running catch. the shackles when she used front of the wicket for a 75- 15 overs. The century partnership her power to send off-spin- ball 69. Du Preez carried on in the laid the foundation for a ner Nondumiso Shangase Joined by Lara Goodall, same vein until she fell to challenging total against a over deep midwicket for a Yuvraj trends after hitting four Wolvaardt could not stay Rajeshwari Gayakwad South African side that won maximum. successive sixes in 22-ball 52 Motera pitch for 2-day Test given ‘average RAIPUR, MARCH 14 : The flam- Jonty Rhodes, the 50,000 plus crowd boyant Yuvraj Singh started trending thundered 'Sachin, Sachin' as Ten- early on Sunday morning following his dulkar walked out to bat with his rating’, ‘very good’ for T20 International: ICC four successive sixes during a Road opening partner Virender Sehwag. NEW DELHI, Safety World Series T20 here, rising As the batting great executed those MARCH 14: The pitch for again nearly two years after walking copybook back-foot punches through the day-night Test between into international sunset. covers and the classical straight drive India and England in The iconic Sachin Tendulkar and against Makhaya Ntini, the spectators Ahmedabad has been given Yuvraj turned back the clock and took jumped out of their seats in joy. an average rating by the Raipur by storm in their inimitable It was then the Yuvraj show till the ICC, escaping sanctions af- style as India Legends registered a end. By getting four maximums off the ter the game got over inside thumping 57-run win over South bowling of seamer Zander de Bruyn in two days on that controver- Africa Legends at the Shaheed Veer the 18th over, the southpaw reminded sial surface. Narayan Singh International Stadium of his 2007 World T20 heroics when The ICC in its “Rules and on Saturday. he smashed six sixes in an over. Regulations” page has up- South Africa, chasing 205 to win, beaten 22-ball 52 with six towering Yuvraj, 39, retired from interna- dated the ratings of all re- were restricted to 148 for 7 in 20 overs.