Indian women’s cricket team wins T20 Women's Asia Cup 2022

2022-10-18 | Priyanka Chaudhary

India defeated Sri Lanka by 8 wickets to win the 7^th Asia Cup. Sri Lanka was first to bat and scored 65 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs while India scored 71 runs for 2 wickets in 8.3 overs. For the first time in 14 years, Sri Lanka reached the finals of the Asia Cup.

Deepti Sharma has been named the “Player of the Tournament” for her brilliant all-round performance.

The most runs were scored by Jemimah Rodrigues from India (217) while Deepti Sharma took the most wickets from India (13) and Inoka Ranaweera from Sri Lanka (13).

Women’s Asia Cup 2022

The 2022 Women’s Asia Cup is the 8^th edition of the Women’s Asia Cup. It was held from 1 to 15 October in Sylhet, Bangladesh. The matches were played at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. The participating teams were:

1. Bangladesh
2. India
3. Malaysia
4. Pakistan
5. Sri Lanka
6. Thailand
7. United Arab Emirates

Indian Women's Squad for Asia Cup 2022

India women's cricket team squad for T20 Asia Cup

1. Harmanpreet Kaur (captain)
2. Smriti Mandhana (vice captain)
3. Rajeshwari Gayakwad
4. Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper)
5. Meghna Singh
6. Renuka Singh
7. Sneh Rana
8. Deepti Sharma
9. Pooja Vastrakar
10. Jemimah Rodrigues
11. Dayalan Hemalatha
12. Sabbhineni Meghana
13. Kiran Navgire
14. Shafali Verma
15. Radha Yadav

Women’s Asia Cup Winners and Host

Women’s T20 and One Day International Asia Cup are administered by the Asian Cricket Council. The women’s Asia Cup was first held in 2004 in the ODI format on Colombo and Kandy in Sri Lanka. It is a biennial tournament. After ICC ruled that all matches played in the Women’s Asia Cup has ODI or T20I status, the Women’s Asia cup was played in T20 format for the first time in 2012.

In 2012, China, Hong Kong, Nepal and Thailand were the debutant teams. In 2022, UAE was the debutant team in the tournament.

The 2020 Women’s Asia Cup was scheduled to be held in Bangladesh but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Winners of the Women’s Asia Cup ODI format

Winners of the Women’s Asia Cup T20 format

Recently, National Games 2022 has also concluded and the winners of National Games 2022 were also in news.

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