WATCH: Richa Ghosh drops a sitter as Suzie Bates survives in IND vs NZ ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 match

New Delhi: India’s Women folk’s Cricket Team did now not have an extremely good start up to their first group-stage stumble upon of the continued T20 World Cup against New Zealand Women folk at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. After Georgia Plimmer and Suzie Bates ensured a fine start for the White Ferns, Indian Women folk committed fielding blunders to ease things for his or her opponents.

Talking concerning the fielding blunders, Renuka Singh Thakur’s comical fielding awarded four runs to Plimmer, and the experienced Suzie Bates got a lifeline, riding on Richa Ghosh’s horrible keeping. The incident occurred the total way at some stage in the sixth over of New Zealand Women folk’s innings when India Women folk were desperately trying to discover a breakthrough.

Then it became time for the wicket, Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur brought her trump card Arundhati Reddy into the attack to catch a wicket. Despite Reddy creating a possibility along with her wily variations, Richa Ghosh dropped a sitter to disappoint her at an extremely important time of the sport.

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From over the wicket, Reddy bowled an extremely good length delivery around the leg stump, as Bates created room to whack the ball at some stage in the on side. Alternatively, she only managed a top edge with the ball going straight up the total way at some stage in the air.

It became a straightforward chance for India’s wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh, who misjudged the velocity of the ball and put it down, giving Bates a lifeline