India women eye 3-0 sweep of Zimbabwe in third T20I at Raipur
Having already won the series 2-0, the Indian women's team will play the third and final T20 against Zimbabwe in Raipur on Tuesday.
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The Indian women's cricket team will take the field against Zimbabwe tomorrow for the third and final T20 match. The three-match T20 series between the two women's teams is under way, and the first two matches have been completed. Tomorrow's game will be the last T20 of the series.
India won both matches and have already taken the series, leading the three-match contest 2-0. Even so, the team will try to win tomorrow's match and sweep Zimbabwe.
The match details are as follows. India Women play Zimbabwe on Tuesday, October 20, with the start at 7:00 pm. The third and final T20 will be played at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium in Raipur.
The Indian women have been dominant and one-sided in the series. In the first T20, India beat Zimbabwe by 4 wickets. In the second match, India won by a big margin of 9 wickets and sealed the series with that win.
After the T20 series, the two women's teams will also play a three-match ODI series. All the ODIs will be held in Vadodara, Gujarat.
On the pitch, the surface at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium in Raipur is likely to be very good for both batters and bowlers. Tomorrow's match is therefore expected to be an exciting contest.
The Indian women's squad includes: Smriti Mandhana (captain), Shafali Verma, Anushka Sharma, Harmanpreet Kaur, Niki Prasad, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Arundhati Reddy, Shree Charani, Nandni Sharma and Kranti Gaud.
The Zimbabwe women's squad includes: Kelis Ndhlovu, Beloved Biza, Modester Mupachikwa (wicketkeeper), Sharne Mayers, Nyasha Gwanzura, Michelle Mavunga, Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano, Francisca Chipare, Josephine Nkomo (captain), Olinder Chare and Tendai Makusha.
