WOMEN'S CRICKET

Gayakwad, Bisht spin India to easy win

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Rajeshwari Gayakwad picked up 4 for 21 and shared seven wickets with Ekta Bisht.
Rajeshwari Gayakwad picked up 4 for 21 and shared seven wickets with Ekta Bisht. © Cricbuzz

When the visiting captain Stafanie Taylor won the toss on Thursday (November 10) morning, the decision to bat was a premeditated one. The wicket looked hard, exactly what the big-hitting West Indies' batters would have liked to exploit. But their inadequacy to build an innings was highlighted yet again when India Women's left-handed pair of slower bowlers - Ekta Bisht and Rajeshwari Gayakwad - shared seven wickets between them to shoot West Indies out for 131 in the first One-Day International at the Mulapadu Cricket Ground near Vijayawada.

The newly-laid surface didn't offer much turn but disciplined line and lengths helped the hosts keep a strict check on runs and make regular incisions to keep the visitors to a modest total. Despite a fumble at the top of the order, Veda Krishnamurthy (52 not out) and Mithali Raj (46 not out) ensured the hosts got off the mark with a six-wicket win to keep West Indies waiting for another game to secure their 2017 ICC Women's World Cup spot. They scored an unbeaten 97 - the highest for the fifth wicket between the two sides in all ODIs played.

Into her first over of the season, Shikha Pandey helped India make early inroads with the wicket of young Shaquana Quintyne. The West Indies opener, trapped plumb in front off the second ball she faced, walked off without troubling the scorers. Pandey's rhythm was broken when Taylor lifted one over the bowler's head for her first boundary, just beside the Indian dug out, but the mandatory powerplay had yielded only 39.

Jhulan Goswami, bowling from far end, went for 24 in her five-over opening spell before the first bowling change saw spin coming into the attack. Bisht carried on the fine form she'd shown in the domestic circuit and triggered a dramatic collapse that the visitors failed to recover from. Bisht struck with the fifth ball of her over upon ODI comeback to send the big-hitting Hayley Matthews packing on 27. The wicket of the West Indian opener, who had been scoring freely thus far, put an end to the 37-run stand for the second wicket - their best in the game.

Kycia Knight made 9 off the 12 runs she added with her skipper to the third-wicket stand but was cleaned up by Bisht for her second scalp. With spinners bowling in tandem and a field crowded on the offside put Taylor under pressure. The skipper fell in Bisht's succeeding over who wrapped up her first spell with exemplary figures of 5-2-8-3.

The move to bring in Gayakwad, to replace Deepti Sharma from the pavilion end, clicked almost immediately. West Indies were yet to recover from the loss when the Karnataka spinner had the destructive Deandra Dottin caught behind for 8. West Indies had slipped from a comfortable 42 for 1 to 63 for 5.

With runs constantly drying up, Shemaine Campbella perished in the attempt to steal a non-existent second. Guarding the deep square leg boundary, Mona Meshram ran in to send a sharp throw over to the keeper that caught Campbella sufficiently outside .to put an end to the partnership between the last recognised batting pair.

Merissa Aguilleria helped West Indies to cross the 100-run mark and give their bowlers something to play with. The wicket-keeper batsman made an unbeaten 42 off 77 deliveries, laden with half a dozen boundaries, but fell short of partners at the other end. With the team's 100 coming up only with the final ball of the 31st over, the writing was on the wall.

Gayakwad cleaned up the tail to add three more to her tally. Shakera Selman survived a close lbw should off Pandey in the 29th over but was sent back in the over immediately after the drinks break. Harmanpreet Kaur's throw - aimed directly at the stumps from extra cover - outclassed Afy Fletcher's dive at the wicketkeeper's end. Goswami had to endure a tough day in the field. Aguilleria slogged one straight over her head that Harmanpreet tried to eclipse but to no avail.

Trermayne Smartt attracted a loud cheer for walking in without a helmet on. Her stay in the middle, though, lasted only a couple of deliveries before she was adjudged leg before to Gayakwad. Smartt stood there, stunned, before trudging off as the visitors folded inside 43 overs.

The ball kept considerably low in the second innings and the wicket fest continued till Raj and Krishnamurthy stabalised the innings, putting on an unbeaten fifth-wicket stand worth 97 to save India from the blushes.

The new season saw India experimenting with a fresh face to accompany Smriti Mandhana to start the proceedings. Deepti Sharma took first strike as India kicked off their chase of 132 with a left-handed opening combination. Itching, probably, to get off the mark Mandhana showed intent from the first ball itself but Taylor intercepted the shot in covers, just outside the 30-yard circle, to deny the Indian a boundary. The Maharashtara bat eventually got going with one over the midwicket ropes, off the next delivery from Smartt. Her heroics saw a premature end though. When on 7, Selman induced an outside edge from her bat that was pouched by Deandra Dottin in covers.

Selman struck for the second time within her first three overs that lifted the spirits of the visitors. Wicketkeeper Aguilleira judged the low catch to perfection ensuring that Meshram's comeback knock was cut short on just 2. Offspin duo of Fletcher and Matthews left India in doldrums at 36 for 4 by trapping Deepti and Harmanpreet in front, respectively, without them having contributed anything substantial to the chase.

Raj might have stumbled just as she entered the play field to a loud reception but the Indian skipper ensured that their chase didn't lose steam just yet. 20 overs into the innings, India were reeling at 47 for 4 but Raj and Krishnamurthy showed there were no demons in the pitch if the batsmen showed application.

While Raj provided assurity at one end, Krishnamurthy played with freedom at the other, piercing the fields at regular intervals to not let the visitors mount pressure. Every boundary was cheered by shouts of 'action replay' from the dug out. The fifty of their partnership came in 91 balls after which the duo picked up pace to wrap up the proceedings inside 40 overs.

Raj brought up the team's hundred with a single in the 36th over. Soon after, Krishnamurthy slammed the first six of the chase, depositing the Selman delivery over the deep square leg fence. Befittingly, it was Krishnamurthy who provided the finishing touches, barely two overs later, smashing Quintyne into the long-on stand to raise her fourth ODI half-century and seal the win.

Brief scores: West Indies 131/10 in 42.4 overs (Merissa Aguilleira42*; Rajeshwari Gayakwad 4-21, Ekta Bisht 3-14) lost to India 133/4 in 39.1 overs (Veda Krishnamurthy 52*, Mithali Raj 46*) by six wickets.

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