India vs South Africa Women | Visitors put behind ODI loss to notch up easy win

After being asked to bat first, South African openers Lizelle Lee and Dane Van Niekerk got their side off to a brilliant start before medium pacer Shikha Pandey dismissed Lee for 19. Coming in at No.3, Sune Luus kept her ODI form going to score a run-a-ball 18 before perishing to pacer Pooja Vastrakar, who replaced the injured Jhulan Goswami in the team. While Niekerk seemed to steady the ship, she was castled by off-spinner Anuja Patil for 38 - a knock that comprised five hits to the fence and a six.

With the scoreboard reading 84/3 after Niekerk’s dismissal, Mignon du Preez started unleashing some stroke play and found an able ally in Nadine de Klerk as the pair combined to add 46 runs for the fourth wicket. However, just like the routine of the play, the hosts lost du Preez's wicket in the 19th over to Patil. However, if the Indians were celebrating the dismissal thinking they were in a good stead, they were in for a surprise as Chloe Tryon mustered a seven-ball 32 by slamming three sixes and two fours off Pandey in the last over to help the side finish with a respectable score of 164/4.

However, that failed to affect Raj as she, in the company of debutant Jemimah Rodrigues, made sure that the run-rate was within reach as the visitors managed to put up 90/2 at the halfway mark of the innings. Raj stitched 69 runs with Rodrigues for the third wicket and then added 52 runs for the fourth wicket with Krishnamurthy.