Pakistan Penalised 10 Runs in Women’s World T20 Match vs India
Pakistan were penalised two sets of five runs during their innings against India in the Women’s World T20.
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Indian bowlers pinned Pakistan down for most part of their innings before allowing them to wriggle out for 133 for 7 in their ICC Women's World T20 match in Guyana on Sunday.
Pakistan were penalised two sets of five runs during their innings because their batters ran on the danger area twice while running between the wickets. Thus, 10 runs were added to India's innings before the start of their innings. The two singles taken, when the Pakistan batters ran on the danger area, were also taken away from the team’s total.
Bismah Maroof and Nida Dar ran in the danger area in the first ball of the 18th over. Pakistan were given their second official warning after Maroof and Dar ran on the danger area.
Pakistan lost five more runs when Nahida Khan and Sidra Nawaz ran on the danger area while taking a single off the last ball of the innings.
Opting to field after winning the toss, India made a great start with the ball, reducing Pakistan to 30 for 3 in the seventh over.
Pakistan made a fine recovery thanks to half centuries from Bismah Maroof (53) and Nida Dar (52) as the duo stitched 93 runs for the fourth wicket to take their side to a competitive total.
India also dropped at least three easy catches, which allowed Pakistan to come back into the Group B match.
Opening bowler Arundhati Reddy immediately gave India the breakthrough by having Ayesha Zafar caught at the slips by Veda Krishnamurthy for nought in the final delivery of the first over.
Pakistan were yet to open their account then and they could have been in a worse situation had Smriti Mandhana not dropped captain Javeria Khan in the third over.
But two run-outs in the space of three overs gave India the upper hand. First an outstanding direct throw from the 18-year old Jemimah Rodrigues sent Umaima Sohail back to the pavilion in the fourth over while captain Javeria witnessed the same fate in the seventh over after a mix up.
Pakistan were on the ropes but India allowed them to gain grounds by having three dropped catches. All the three were regulation catches.
Veda Krishnamurthy dropped Nida Dar while on 15 in the 11th over. Poonam Yadav dropped the same batter in the 13th over when she was on 23. The next over, Poonam made a mess of a Bismah Maroof skier as she completely misjudged the trajectory of the ball.
Pakistan were still not out of the woods as they could only reach 53 for 3 at the half-way stage but the sloppy Indian fielding allowed their two batters Dar and Maroof to gain in confidence.
The Pakistani duo began to hit boundaries at regular intervals and both reached their fifties towards the end of the innings. Maroof was the first to reach to her fifty in the 17th over while Dar did the same in the next over.
But both were out in the same 19th over in the space of three balls with Dayalan Hemalatha picking the two wickets. Poonam Yadav then scalped two Pakistani wickets in the final over – that of Aliya Riaz (4) and Sana Mir (0).
(With inputs from PTI)