Indian women's team wins ODI series against Zimbabwe 2-0

The Indian women's team continued its impressive performance in the second ODI against Zimbabwe. Harmanpreet Kaur (126) and all-rounder Deepti Sharma (106*) scored brilliant centuries, followed by a strong performance by the bowlers as India won by a huge margin of 121 runs. With this win, they clinched the three-match series 2-0 with one match to spare.

India, who won the toss and elected to bat in this match held at Vadodara, suffered a setback right from the start. Captain Smriti Mandhana (0) and Shafali Verma (8) reached the pavilion for low scores and lost 2 wickets for 19 runs. At this stage, Harmanpreet, who came to the crease, along with Pratik Rawal (61), improved the innings. Then, Deepti Sharma's partnership started the scoreboard to run. Harmanpreet and Deepti Sharma dominated the Zimbabwe bowlers and scored centuries. With this, the Indian team posted a huge score of 328 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs.

Chasing a lofty target of 329 runs, Zimbabwe got off to a good start. At the end of 20 overs, they showed signs of fighting by scoring 104 runs for the loss of one wicket. Mupachikwa (49) and Thiripano (46) excelled. However, after that, the Indian spinners flourished. The spin trio of Vaishnavi Sharma, Deepti Sharma and Sri Charani kept the Zimbabwean batters losing wickets regularly. Vaishnavi Sharma took 4 wickets, while Deepti Sharma, who had a century with the bat, impressed with her all-round performance by taking 3 wickets with the bowling. With this, the Zimbabwe team was all out for 207 runs in 48.5 overs.