Team India Triumphs Against Pakistani Side During Dispute, Confusion - plus Flying Pest Problem
Pakistan Voices Unhappiness As TV Umpire Questionably Reverses Running Out Ruling
Women's Cricket World Cup, Colombo
India 247 (Fifty overs): Deol's 46 runs (65 balls); Baig's 4 wickets for 69
Pakistani Total 159 (43-over innings): Amin's 81 runs (106 deliveries); Kranti Goud 3-20
Team India secured victory by 88 runs
Team India preserved their perfect beginning in the World Cup tournament with a comfortable eighty-eight run triumph over rivals Pakistan in Colombo.
Harleen Deol was the highest scorer making 46 runs and Richa Ghosh smashed 35 not out from 20 balls in the closing stages to boost India's total to 247 in an innings which witnessed numerous batters make starts but not continuing.
Seamer Diana Baig took 4-69 while Pakistan dismissed India out for the first time in a women's ODI with the ultimate ball of their knock but a first win continued to evade them.
Following a slide to twenty-six for three in the chase, The Pakistani side temporarily recovered through Sidra Amin - who proceeded to score 81 off 105 deliveries following being given reprieves three times - along with Natalia Pervaiz added 69 runs during their fourth-wicket stand.
But India, guided by Goud's three for twenty, persisted with their plan to bowl out the Pakistani team for 159 runs during the 43rd over and climb to the top of the group table.
As is so often the case when India and Pakistan meet, however, there was far more to it, with controversy and confusion scattered across the encounter...
Dismissal Debate
Perhaps the biggest conversation topic emerged from a situation early in Pakistan's knock as opening batter Muneeba was controversially dismissed via run out.
The left-handed batter got hit on the leg guard from Goud while the bowler from India made an unsuccessful appeal for lbw, Deepti Sharma picked up the free ball and threw at the stumps.
She struck but replays showed Muneeba had placed her willow prior to the ball entered the frame and a 'not out' decision from the match official Kerrin Klaaste went up on the big screen in the venue.
However, prior to play resuming, the ruling was reviewed again and it emerged that as the ball struck the wickets and dislodged the bails, the batter had elevated the bat and was positioned away from her ground.
Even though the hitter had earlier embedded her bat and didn't endeavor to steal a run, the match referee modified her verdict to 'given out' and despite Pakistan protests, that witnessed skipper Fatima Sana instruct her player to remain on the pitch temporarily, the batter had to exit.
With an additional complication, should India have referred the LBW appeal, the complete debate might have been averted as ball-tracking revealed the batter was undoubtedly leg before.
What do the laws of cricket state?
30.1 When out of his/her ground
30.1.1 A player shall be deemed as out of their ground if no part of the player or equipment is placed behind the batting crease at that wicket.
Section 30.1.2 Nonetheless, a player shall not be deemed to be out of his/her ground if, while sprinting or diving toward their ground and further, and following embedding an element of his/her person or bat beyond the popping crease, there is subsequent loss of contact between the field and any element of the player or equipment, or between equipment and player.
'Tails becomes heads call'
Bewilderment as Pakistan incorrectly awarded flip against India
It ought to have been obvious that things would not be straightforward in this game from the very toss.
Against a backdrop of political tensions between the two countries, that skippers Sana and Harmanpreet avoided handshakes came as no surprise - especially given the previous instances in previous encounters among the men's teams.
Nevertheless, no-one could have predicted that Sana would call wrongly yet gain the flip.
The Pakistani captain called out "tails" as the Indian captain spun the coin yet umpire Shandre Fritz misheard and declared "heads called".
Broadcaster and former Australia batter Mel Jones was conducting the toss and repeated the referee's statement, the coin landed on heads and the announcement came that Pakistan had won the coin toss.
No skipper challenged it thus Sana could come forward and affirm that the Pakistani side would chase.
An innocent mistake and given India won anyway, no damage caused.
Flying pests interrupt game
'Who to summon?' - 'Bugbuster' arrives as flies stop play
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