Women's Asia Cup: Pakistan reaches semi-final after India's impressive win, Shefali misses century

Openers Shefali Verma and D Hemalatha laid the foundation for India's victory over Nepal. Shefali and Hemalatha shared a brilliant partnership of 122 runs in 14 overs. This partnership was broken when Hemalatha (47) was out. She scored 47 runs off 42 balls. In this match, Hemalatha came to open the innings in place of Smriti Mandhana, who is captaining the team. Harmanpreet Kaur and Pooja Vastrakar were rested in this match.

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D. Hemalatha may have missed the half-century, but Shefali Verma made no mistake in crossing the 50-run mark. The way she was playing, it seemed that she would score a century. She made a mistake as she came close to the century. Shefali was stumped out in the 16th over while trying to hit Sita Rana Magar's ball by moving forward. Before getting out, she scored 81 runs in 48 balls with the help of 12 fours and a six. This is the best score of her T20 International career.

Beautiful innings by Jemima
After the dismissal of Shefali Verma and D Hemalatha, Jemima Rodrigues, Sajeevan Sajna and Richa Ghosh played short but excellent innings and took the score to 178 runs for 3 wickets. Jemima scored 28 runs in 15 balls. Sajeevan was dismissed after scoring 10 runs in 12 balls. Richa Ghosh played an unbeaten innings of 6 runs.

Nepal could not even score 100 runs
Nepal's team, which came out to chase the target of 179 runs, never looked like moving towards victory. Not a single batsman from their side could even touch the score of 20 runs. The entire Nepal team could score only 96 runs for 9 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. From India's side, Deepti Sharma took the maximum of 3 wickets. Arundhati Reddy and Radha Yadav took 2-2 wickets each.

India's third consecutive win
This is India's third consecutive win in the Women's Asia Cup. The Indian team finished first in Group A with three wins. Pakistan got the direct benefit of India's win. The Pakistani team won two matches. If Nepal's team had defeated India by a big margin, Pakistan would have been out of the race for the semi-finals. This is the reason why its fans kept praying for India's victory against Nepal. Nepal won one match in the tournament. The fourth team of the group, UAE's win count was zero.