In the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, the Indian women’s team may have lost by 9 runs in the Group-A match against Australia, but Team India’s fast bowler Renuka Singh managed to do a great job. In this match, the Australian team decided to bat first in which they scored 151 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs, while in response to this, the Indian team could only reach a score of 142 runs. Renuka Singh definitely impressed everyone with her bowling in this match, in which she broke a big record of Jhulan Goswami along with taking 2 wickets.
Renuka did this big feat for the 15th time in her career
Renuka Singh managed to take 2 wickets while giving away 24 runs in 4 overs in the match against Australia. With this, Renuka has now become the fastest bowler to take 2 or more wickets in a match as a player of the Indian women’s team in T20 International, in which she has done this feat 15 times in her career so far. Former Indian women’s veteran player Jhulan Goswami, who is at number two in this list, was successful in doing this feat 14 times in her career. In this case, the names of Pooja Vastrakar and Shikha Pandey are at number three and four.
The fastest bowler to take 2 or more wickets in a match for the Indian women’s team in T20 Internationals the most number of times
- Renuka Singh – 15 times
- Jhulan Goswami – 14 times
- Puja Vastrakar – 14 times
- Shikha Pandey – 10 times
The path to semi-finals is almost closed for India
After the 9-run defeat against the Australian women’s team, the Indian women’s team’s hopes of reaching the semi-finals are almost over. Although they are currently at the second position in the Group A points table with 4 points, if New Zealand wins their match against Pakistan, then the Indian women’s team will come to the third position and their journey in this tournament will also end.