Twitter Reactions: Jemimah Rodrigues and Renuka Thakur's brilliance take India into CWG 2022 semis

India Women have qualified for the semifinals of the Women’s Cricket Competition of the Commonwealth Games 2022 (CWG) with a comprehensive 100-run win in their final group game against Barbados at Edgbaston, Birmingham on Wednesday, August 3. More importantly, this victory has brought the Indian eves a step closer to the medal race. Even though the Women in Blue lost their top order early, Jemimah Rodrigues played a crucial knock that helped them post a fighting total on the board and star pacer Renuka Singh Thakur did the rest in the second innings with the ball in hand as she successfully went on to register her second four-wicket haul in the competition. Renuka Singh Thakur powers India Women into the semifinals Barbados skipper Hayley Matthews won an important toss and elected to bowl first. It was indeed a good move as they dismissed the in-form Smriti Mandhana for just five before Shafali Verma and Jemimah Rodrigues staged a 71-run stand for the second wicket. Shafali looked well-set for a big knock before a mix-up with Jemimah ended her stay at the crease for a 26-ball 43. India sunk into further trouble after captain Harmanpreet Kaur was dismissed for a golden duck. Even wicketkeeper-batter Taniya Bhatiya failed to offer any resistance as well. Nonetheless, Jemimah Rodrigues scored an important unbeaten 56 runs from 46 balls and supporting innings of a 28-ball 34 helped Indian eves in posting 162/4 from their 20 overs. In reply, Barbados were never really there in the run chase as they failed to read Renuka Singh Thakur’s line and length that asked tough questions in the powerplay overs. A couple of dismissals in her spell included two batters leaving a ball wrongly assuming that it would go over the stumps. Thakur finished her spell with figures of 4/10 from her four overs at an economy of 2.5. Thus, she also became the leading wicket-taker of the ongoing CWG 2022 with nine scalps to her name. Having lost their top-order and being reduced to 19/4 inside the powerplay, Barbados could never really recover and resorted to a defensive strategy in the rest of their innings even though they ended up losing four more wickets. Eventually, Barbados Women were restricted to 62/8 from their 20 overs and bowed out of the competition. Here’s how Twitter reacted to India’s clinical performance in a must-win encounter: 🤩🏏 THE SUPERSTAR! What a knock from Jemimah Rodrigues! 👏 She brings up her seventh T20I fifty! 📸 Getty • #INDvBAR #BARvIND #JemimahRodrigues #B2022 #CWG2022 #TeamIndia #BharatArmy pic.twitter.com/FzumkoMhu1 — The Bharat Army (@thebharatarmy) August 3, 2022 Most runs for India in women's T20Is outside India :-1759 – Mithali Raj1581 – Harmanpreet Kaur1498 – Smriti Mandhana1012* – Jemimah Rodrigues Jemimah reached 1000 T20I runs outside India today.#CWG2022 #INDvBAR — Rhitankar Bandyopadhyay (@rhitankar8616) August 3, 2022 If the Indian team scores 162 without any contribution from Smriti, Meghana, Harman, Pooja and Rana, then really you have to say what a herculean effort Shafali, Jemimah and Deepti put up despite struggling early.💙🔥 #CWG2022 — Ritwika Dhar (@RituD307) August 3, 2022 They are doing the same Rajeshwari what they did with Shikha. Also dropping Meghana…their team selections always amaze me and also don't. 🙃 Only positive is Jemimah got her 3rd position back. #CWG2022 — Ritwika Dhar (@RituD307) August 3, 2022 Most sixes at age 18 or below in women's T20Is: 36* – Shafali Verma🇮🇳17 – Deandra Dottin🏝️12 – Jemimah Rodrigues🇮🇳11 – Stafanie Taylor🏝️#BARvIND #CWG2022 — Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) August 3, 2022 Jemimah needs to cover it up the way Bates did against South Africa. #CWG2022 — Ritwika Dhar (@RituD307) August 3, 2022 🇮🇳🏏 EXCEPTIONAL STUFF! Renuka Singh Thakur wreaked havoc with the ball today. 😍 What a spell that was! 📸 Getty • #INDvBAR #BARvIND #B2022 #CWG2022 #TeamIndia #BharatArmy pic.twitter.com/11GN9vh8j5 — The Bharat Army (@thebharatarmy) August 3, 2022 Renuka Singh Thakur. Wow. Just wow. @BCCIWomen #CWG2022 pic.twitter.com/0teJPPG6Qa — Waadaplaya!!! 🏏 (@waadaplaya) August 4, 2022 It’s Renuka Singh Thakur’s world.#CWG2022 #INDvBAR pic.twitter.com/oxhOgKOflT — Aditya Chaturvedi (@aditya_c19) August 3, 2022 HealyLanning Mooney McGrath Ayesha Naseem And now Dottin! Dream tournament Renuka is having and only catching the big fishes!! 🎣 Standards. #CWG2022 — Ritwika Dhar (@RituD307) August 3, 2022

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Twitter Reactions: Jemimah Rodrigues and Renuka Thakur's brilliance take India into CWG 2022 semis

Renuka Thakur took a brilliant four-wicket haul to break Barbados' back in the chase.

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