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IND-W vs IRE-W Pitch Report: The Indian women's team ended the year 2024 in a great way by winning the ODI series played at home against the West Indies. Now Team India will start the new year with a three-match ODI series against Ireland starting from January 10, in which all three matches of this series will be played at the Saurashtra Cricket Association ground in Rajkot. Experienced star opening batsman Smriti Mandhana will take over the captaincy in this series for the Indian women's team.
The pitch of Rajkot is very suitable for batting
If we talk about the pitch for the first match of this ODI series to be played at Saurashtra Cricket Association ground, then the pitch here is now considered very suitable for batting in limited overs format, in which scoring runs has been quite easy. In ODIs, the pitch gets the same bounce in both innings, so the team winning the toss can decide to bowl first so that the target can be chased easily. Here, the average score of the first innings in ODIs while batting first has been between 320 to 325 runs. In the 4 matches played here so far, the team batting first has won the match, so in such a situation the toss is going to be very important for both the teams.
Harmanpreet Kaur has been given rest for this series
Talking about the Indian women's squad for the three-match ODI series against Ireland, the selectors have decided to rest Harmanpreet Kaur and experienced fast bowler Renuka Singh. While Mandhana will handle the captaincy, Raghavi Bisht and Sayali Satghare have been included in the team. Gabby Lewis will take over the captaincy for the Ireland women's team in this ODI series.
Fans can watch the live telecast of the ODI series matches here
Fans can watch the live telecast of the three-match ODI series between India and Ireland women's team on Sports 18 channel. Apart from this, the online streaming of the matches will be on Jio Cinema app. All three matches of this ODI series will start at 11 am Indian time.
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