ICC Women’s World Cup 2022 | Record day out for Jhulan Goswami, batters on India’s perfect outing

Jhulan Goswami became the highest wicket-taker in the women’s ODI World Cup against West Indies on Saturday, 12 March at Seddon Park, Hamilton. Goswami, picked Anisa Mohammed as her 40th scalp in the premier tournament to go past Lynn Fullston in the top wicket-takers tally.

A perfect day out for India in almost all possible senses, they put on a huge total in the first innings and then returned to defend the same emphatically and win by a massive margin of 155 runs.

Earlier in the day, Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur hit twin centuries for India to sail them to a dominating score of 317/8 in the first innings. It was the first such occasion where two Indian batters had hit centuries in the same match of the women’s World Cup, and helped the team achieve their second highest total in women’s ODI. This was also the highest ever score against West Indies in the World Cup format.

With such an incredible total on board, India walked out to defend brimming with confidence, but their plans soon went sideways by a tremendous onslaught from the West Indies opening pair. Deandra Dottin and Hayley Matthews took the attack to the opposition and put on a rapid 100 runs inside the first 13 overs.

However, the wicket of Dottin (62 off 46) changed the course of the game and ensued a collapse. Windies scored just 62 runs for their last 9 wickets and were wrapped up at 162 inside 40.3 overs.

With the win, India got a massive NRR boost and currently stand at the top of the table, albeit having played one more game than Australia (2nd) and South Africa (4th) who have equal number of points.