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India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I Women's semi-final lineup
IND-W vs JAP-W Live Score: India face hosts Japan in the Women's T20I quarter-final at the Asian Games today. (CREIMAS)Questions may persist about the transition and a wobbly middle order, but the bid for a gold medal in Aichi-Nagoya will take priority for now. And Harmanpreet Kaur’s team has begun in rampant fashion, crushing hosts Japan in their Asian Games quarter-final in Nisshin on Friday.
Bowling first, the Asia Cup winners were too hot for the fledgling Japanese side. While they managed to hold fort, the hosts rarely posed any threat and stretched the innings for as long as they could, eventually mustering 57 runs in 19.5 overs.
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The chase was cleaned up in manic fashion, albeit accounting for the early dismissals of G Kamalini and Bharti Fulmali. Led by a belligerent Shafali Verma, India closed the chase in only five overs in their first-ever T20I meeting against Japan.
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India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Semis sealed in 5 overs
Kato sprays the ball on length and Shafali creams it through cover for FOUR. Another loosener outside off-stump and Shafali slashes hard through point for FOUR more. In the slot this time and Richa muscles the ball past wide long-on for another FOUR. 50 up, can India close the chase in this over? Low full-toss and Richa taps it to the deep for a single. India are one hit away. And Shafali Ghosh smites the ball over long-on for a huge six, sealing the chase and India's semi-final spot in 5 overs!
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Another wicket!
Another wicket for Japan! Ayaka Kato-Stafford strikes with her fourth delivery as Fulmali fluffs a slog across the line. The ball bites the outside edge and lobs up straight to the point fielder and India have lost two in quick succession. And despite that, Shafali isn't one to hold back as she deposits her second delivery over long-off for SIX!
Bharti Fulmali c Kato b Kato-Stafford 6 (7b 1x4)
IND-W 31/2 in 3 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Historic first for Japan!
Nonoha Yasumoto into the attack
First wicket for Japan! Kamalini steps out and hacks a delivery sliding towards the pads and finds the long-on fielder. A well judged catch in the deep and Japan have inflicted an unlikely dismissal. Bharti Fulmali is in at 3.
Gunalan Kamalini c Chandel b Nonoha Yasumoto 0 (2b)
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Back for the chase
No Mandhana! Shafali Verma and G Kamalini walk out to open India's chase. Left-arm pacer Chandel to begin proceedings.
A loosener outside the off-stump and Shafali flays the first ball through extra cover for FOUR. A wide follows down leg and Chandel moves into the slot once again. Shafali punishes the length with another biff down the ground for FOUR. Wide outside the off-stump this time and Shafali merely hangs his bat away from the body and cashes in another FOUR! Much better this time as Chandel attacks the stumps from length, forcing Shafali to tap back at her. Width, and punished again, Shafali nails another delivery straying on length through extra cover, closing the over with her fourth FOUR of the over. And India are nearly a third through the chase already.
IND 17/0 in 1 over
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: All out, all over
Smriti Mandhana and Shreyanka Patil cannot stifle a few chuckles as the ball trickles off to knock a bail down off Yasumoto's bat. Even the Japanese batters cannot hide a few laughs, seemingly enjoying the occasion to the fullest as the innings closes at 19.5 overs with 57 runs on the board. Must be a walk in the park for India before officially locking in on their semi-final berth against Bangladesh over the next 30 minutes.
JAP-W 57 all out in 19.5 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Double-wicket maiden
No. 3 for Sree Charani. Nishimura top-edges a loopy delivery from length and a simple catch lands in the hands of Fulmali at short mid-wicket. Another one bites the dust. Action replay from two deliveries back as Sree Charani finds another miscue off length. Toguchi sends the ball straight up and Shafali pouches a simple catch from a few yards behind the umpire.
Double-wicket maiden for Sree Charani as she bowls out with figures of 4-2-10-4.
Akari Nishimura c Fulmali b Shree Charani 2 (9b); Erika Toguchi-Quinn c Shafali Verma b Shree Charani 0 (2b)
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Two wickets in the 17th!
Shafali returns for the 17th over and her third delivery was a half-tracker around off, Kato tries to get it over mid-off and ends up holing out right there. Then Mandhana with a quick throw from fine leg and Ghosh flicks the bail to run out Hinase Goto as the Japanese tried to pinch a second run.
Japan 52/6 in 17 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Shafali strikes!
That's the end of Kato-Stafford's stay in the middle. She takes a big swing at the second ball of the 15th by Shafali, which was full and on off. Ends up holing out at mid-on.
JPN 46/4 in 14.2 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: A wicket for Deepti!
Deepti's last ball in the 12th over is sent in full outside off. Erika Oda hits it leg side and Shreyanka takes an easy catch at deep midwicket.
Erika Oda c Patil b DB Sharma 5 (14)
Japan 33/3 in 12 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: 11 overs gone, Japan 32/2
Shafali Verma rolled her arms over for this one, she is a wicket-taker but no poles for her in this over. A couple of runs for the Japanese. Their opener Ayaka Kato-Stafford is still out there. She has played for the Australian U19 team and well, she might still be eligible to play for that side based on her age alone - Kato-Stafford is just 16 years old.
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Deepti Sharma into the attack...
Deepti bowled the 10th over of the Japanese innings. A couple of singles squeezed through, with the first of those probably one that India should have prevented.
Japan 30/2 in 10 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: A double-wicket maiden...
There was no hat-trick for Charani, with Erika Oda blocking out the fourth delivery and the rest of the over as well. Well, even those who don't know much about cricket would probably know that India are the heavy favourites to win today and thus far, the gap is quite visible out in the middle.
Japan 24/2 in 7 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Charani on a hat-trick now!
One brings two! Mai Yanagida the captain ends up nicking it behing and Richa Ghosh makes no mistake with the catch. Shree Charani on a hat-trick.
Yanagida c Ghosh b Shree Charani 0 (1)
Japan 64/2 in 6.3 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Charani gets the breakthrough!
GONE! Haruna Iwasaki goes down on one knee, trying to slog Charani's second ball of the seventh over down the ground for a big one. She ends up hitting it straight down the throat of Shafali Verma at long-on.
Iwasaki c Shafali Verma b Shree Charani 10 (22)
Japan 24/1 in 6.2 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: 24 runs in the powerplay for Japan
Shreyanka Patil, back in the side after a long spell on the sidelines due to injury, bowled the last over of the powerplay. She sent the third ball wide down the leg side and then Kato-Stafford took a single off the next ball. Another single came off the last ball.
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: 2 fours in the 5th over!
Shree Charani comes into the attack, her third delivery was full and tossed up outside off. Kano swings, it takes a thick outside edge and beats slip to go to the boundary for Japan's first four of these Games. Kano gets off strike next ball and then Iwasaki sends the last ball over mid-on for another four.
JPN 21/0 in 5 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Double digits
Nandani continues to sling the ball down towards middle-and-leg, and Iwasaki nudges another one across the square for a single. No change in intent yet, as the Japanese openers continue to tap the deliveries along the ground. Change of pace from Nandani and the batters sneak in couple of runs off overthrows from Richa Ghosh down the ground, towards the sightscreen. In the slot and the first aerial stroke from Japan as Iwasaki lifts Nandana down the ground for two runs.
JAP-W 12/0 in 4 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Quiet start
Nishimura and Iwasaki hold fort but that wouldn't be enough in the long run this morning. Just the two runs have trickled per over so far as the Indian pacers have held their line firmly along the stumps. JAP-W 6/0 in 3 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: 2nd over
Nandani Sharma from the opposite end
Length ball attacking the stumps and Nishimura opens her account with a flick across the line for a single. A string of dots and a wide follows. A consistent attack on the wickets, but the Japanese openers are just about managing to hold the ball off the stumps.
JAP-W 4/0 in 2 overs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Game on
Kranti Gaud to open proceedings with the ball.
Gaud rushes a couple of deliveries past Iwasaki's blade and the right-hander gets bat on ball for the first time from the third. A gentle push through the covers and Japan gain their first couple of runs in the contest. Gaud continues to pummel the length hard, rushing past the outside edge. JAP-W 2/0 in 1 over
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: National anthems time
The teams line up for the national anthems. This will be the first-ever international featuring India and Japan at the senior level.
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: The Mumbaikar in the Japanese camp
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India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Playing XIs
India Women Playing XI: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Gunalan Kamalini, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Bharti Fulmali, Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Shree Charani, Shreyanka Patil, Kranti Gaud, Nandani Sharma.
Japan Women Playing XI: Haruna Iwasaki, Akari Nishimura Kano(w), Mai Yanagida(c), Erika Oda, Ahilya Chandel, Shimako Kato, Ayaka Kato-Stafford, Ayumi Fujikawa, Hinase Goto, Erika Toguchi Quinn, Nonoha Yasumoto
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Toss
TOSS: India Women win toss, opt to field
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: QF results so far
QF1: Bangladesh vs China - Match abandoned, Bangladesh qualify by seeding
QF2: Pakistan vs Thailand - Pakistan beat Thailand by three wickets
QF3: Sri Lanka vs Malaysia - Sri Lanka beat Malaysia by 86 runs
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Fresh off an Asia Cup triumph
Questions linger over Harmanpreet's contributions as a batter in the current order, along with her future as the leader of a side that also boasts of Smriti Mandhana. None of it, though, stopped India from reclaiming the Asia Cup throne in Dubai last week, with Shafali Verma and Mandhana taking centre stage against Sri Lanka. READ MORE
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Cricket in Japan, beyond Nisshin
The makeshift Korogi Sports Park in Nisshin will not be the only major cricket venue in Japan over the course of the next few days. Owing to a special occasion on September 22, the Indian men's cricket team will also gear up for a special one-off T20I against Japan at the Sano International Cricket Ground, about 100 kilometres from Tokyo. Here's how Japan prepared the ground for a T20 with India, with Sri Lanka pitching in, and sponsors lining up
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Match Squads
India Women Squad: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Gunalan Kamalini, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Bharti Fulmali, Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Arundhati Reddy, Shree Charani, Kranti Gaud, Nandani Sharma, Radha Yadav, Renuka Singh Thakur, Shreyanka Patil
Japan Women Squad: Haruna Iwasaki, Akari Nishimura Kano, Mai Yanagida(c), Shimako Kato, Erika Oda, Hinase Goto(w), Ahilya Chandel, Kurumi Ota, Ayumi Fujikawa, Elena Kusuda Nairn, Nonoha Yasumoto, Meg Ogawa, Seika Sumi, Erika Toguchi Quinn, Ayaka Kato-Stafford
India vs Japan Live Score, Asian Games T20I quarterfinal: Welcome
Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the Women's T20I quarter-final between India and Japan at the Asian Games. Stay tuned for all the updates as we hope to get some uninterrupted match action. The first cricket quarter-final was washed out in Nisshin on Thursday, with Bangladesh proceeding to the semis without a ball being bowled.
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