While India lost their ICC Women’s World Cup match against England on Wednesday, the team was able to celebrate Jhulan Goswami incredible achievement. When Goswami dismissed England opener Tammy Beaumont for 1 at Bay Oval, she made history as the first woman cricketer to collect 250 wickets in a WODI. She is also the only bowler in women’s ODI history to take over 200 wickets. Cricket fans couldn’t contain their joy and flooded Twitter with remarks praising Jhulan’s achievement. They congratulated the cricketer on her incredible achievement by writing lovely messages on the microblogging site.
While India lost their ICC Women’s World Cup match against England on Wednesday, they were able to celebrate Jhulan Goswami’s incredible achievement.
Jhulan Goswami
Jhulan Nishit Goswami is a former captain of the Indian women’s cricket team and an international cricketer from India. She, an all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium-fast, is regarded as one of the finest fast bowlers of all time, one of the fastest bowlers in women’s cricket history, and the fastest contemporary bowler since Cathryn Fitzpatrick’s retirement. Goswami retired from WT20Is in August 2018.
On November 25, 1982, Goswami was born into a middle-class family in Chakdaha, West Bengal. She was a football devotee before switching to cricket at the age of 15. After seeing the 1992 Cricket World Cup on TV, Goswami became interested in the sport. After seeing Australian batter Belinda Clark compete in the 1997 Women’s Cricket World Cup, she became even more interested in the sport. [13] Goswami flew to Kolkata to play cricket because Chakdaha had no cricket facilities at the time.
Women’s ODIs
Women’s One Day International (WODI) cricket is a limited-overs format of the game. Matches will be play over 50 overs, which is the same as a men’s game. The inaugural women’s One-Day Internationals were stag in England in 1973 as part of the first Women’s World Cup. The hosts won the first One-Day International against an International XI. On October 13, 2016, South Africa and New Zealand play the 1,000th women’s One-Day International (ODI).
