India Women Beat Zimbabwe for Second Win Under Mandhana
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India Women won a cricket match against Zimbabwe.
The team won by 9 wickets.
This was India's second win in a row.
Smriti Mandhana is the captain of the team.
Shafali Verma scored a fifty in the match.
Shafali and Smriti batted together and made a new world record.
They made the record in a T20I match.
A T20I is a short cricket match between two countries.
Both teams wore a black band on their arms.
The BCCI explained the reason for the black band.
BCCI is the group that runs cricket in India.
The match happened in a city called Raipur.
Vocabulary8 words
- captain
- the leader of a sports team
- fifty
- scoring fifty runs in cricket
- world record
- the best result ever done in the world
- T20I
- a short international cricket game
- black band
- a dark strip worn on the arm
- BCCI
- the group that controls cricket in India
- wicket
- a way a batter can be out in cricket
- opening stand
- runs made by the first two batters together
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Answer key
1. By 9 wickets 2. Shafali Verma 3. A black band
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India Women won a cricket match against _____.
The team won by _____ wickets.
This was India's _____ win in a row.
Smriti Mandhana is the _____ of the team.
_____ scored a fifty in the match.
Shafali and Smriti batted together and made a new _____.
They made the record in a _____ match.
Both teams wore a _____ on their arms.
The _____ explained the reason for the black band.
The match happened in a city called _____.
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