Indian women's cricket team legend Jhulan Goswami has announced her retirement from cricket. She played the last match of her career at Lord's.
A three-match ODI series was played between India and England. India women have whitewashed England in the three-match ODI series with a brilliant innings. After bagging the series by winning the first two matches, the Indian women's team thrashed England by 16 runs in the third match at Lord's on Saturday.
With back-to-back wins, India bid a memorable farewell to Jhulan Goswami with an undisputed 3-0 lead in the series. Jhulan Goswami, who took Indian cricket to great heights along with Mithali Raj, has retired. She played the last match of her career at Lord's.
In the third match, England won the toss and invited India to bat first. But India did not start well. The quick dismissals of Shefali Verma (0), Yastika Bhatia (0), Harmanpreet Kaur (4) and Harleen Deol (3) took India to 29 for 4. After that, on the strength of half-centuries by Smriti Mandhana (50) and Deepti Sharma (68 not out), India reached 169 runs. Keith Cross took 4 wickets from the English team.
The English batsmen broke a sweat while chasing the challenge given by the Indian team. No batsman lasted long in the face of India's aggressive bowling attack. Renuka Singh made a breakthrough for England's batting. As a result, England became 65 for 7. Charlene Dean then put England back into the match with the bottom batsmen holding a side.Just when the England team looked like it was going to create a miracle, Deepti Sharma dismissed Dean in a mank-ding style in the 44th over and the team won by 16 runs.
For India, Renuka Singh took 4 wickets while Jhulan Goswami and Rajeshwari Gaikwad took 2 wickets each. Indian women gave a triumphant gift to veteran Jhulan Goswami with this win. Indian players were seen getting emotional after Jhulan's farewell match. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur was also emotional and broke down in tears on the field.
Jhulan Goswami was the leading face of Indian women's bowling. With this 3-0 win against England, India has created history on the soil of England. Significantly, India has won the ODI series on England soil after a long gap of 23 years. The last time India won an ODI series was in 1999 in England.
Jhulan Goswami has taken a total of 56 wickets in 12 Tests (44 wickets), 202 ODIs (253 wickets) and 68 T20 Internationals in his 20-year cricket career. Jhulan Goswami has taken more than 350 wickets in international cricket.
The 39-year-old Jhulan has represented the Indian team in the ODI World Cup six times. Many industry veterans are showering good wishes on Jhulan after her last match. While the BCCI president praised her, he said, "If my daughter wants to play cricket in the future, I would advise her to be Jhulan Goswami."
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