World Team TT C’ships: India women lose to China 2-3 in group 1 opener
At the World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals, each tie consists of a maximum of five singles matches. The first team to win three matches wins the tie.
At the World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals, each tie consists of a maximum of five singles matches. The first team to win three matches wins the tie.
The Paris hockey qualifying tournament in Ranchi will also feature ,New Zealand, Japan, Chile, the USA, Italy and the Czech Republic and the top three teams will make the cut for the Olympics.
India will take on defending champion Iran in the men's team final while Women will clash with Chinese Taipei for the title in the women's section
Before the final, the Indian team had remained unbeaten throughout the tournament as they had won all their four matches played and advanced to the knockout stage as table-toppers.
All-round Australia put on display a clinical performance to beat India by 85 runs and win their fifth T20 World Cup title.
Riding on Shafali's knock on Thursday, India inched past New Zealand by 3 runs in their nail-biting encounter at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020.
Shafali Verma, who scored 46 off 34 balls, was declared the Player of the Match.
India went all guns blazing and were good at one stage with 68 for 1 in 9 overs. But the latter half of the match saw India score only 65 runs in 66 balls.
For India, Smriti Mandhana and Radha Yadav are in for Arundhati Reddy and Richa Ghosh.
England were 59 for 4 after 10 overs with skipper Heather Knight (27*) and Tammy Beaumont (0) at the crease.
