IND W vs BAN W 3rd T20I: India look to fix batting woes, eye 3-0 sweep

With batting being the sole focus the Indian womens cricket team will look to set sights on a 30 sweep of Bangladesh when the fancied visitors take on the beleaguered hosts in the third and final T20I on ThursdayThe Women in Blue won the first two matches without much fuss and will be looking to do an encore when it takes to the field in the third gameHowever it is easier said than done given Indias mediocre outing with the bat in the second match which they scraped through by eight runs despite being stopped at 95 in their allotted 20 oversThe hosts were bowled out for 87 thanks to some excellent bowling by the Indians giving them an unassailable lead in the threematch seriesBighitting opener Shafali Verma will once again be under the lens of the selectors after her twin failures in the seriesWhile her 14ball 19 eventually turned out to be the teams highest score in the unforgettable collapse the young batter is well aware of her capabilities and expectations from her and has another chance to get back among big runs before the ODI leg of the tour starting July 16Senior pro and vicecaptain Smriti Mandhana too will be keen to get going after getting dismissed for a runaball 13 on TuesdayAlso Read IND W vs BAN W 2nd T20I Highlights Spinners shine as India clinch series with 8run win over BangladeshThe Indian openers have failed to fire together in the series so far and will be gunning to make use of another opportunity that awaits them on ThursdaySo is the case of Jemimah Rodrigues who also could not get going and struggled a lot in the middle while consuming as many as 21 balls for her eight runsOut for a firstball duck two days after her matchwinning knock in the series opener skipper Harmanpreet would not look to read too much into her failure on Tuesday and would rather see it as an exceptionEven as the batters endured the kind of outing they would like to forget in a hurry the Indian bowlers will enter the final T20I high on moraleDefending 96 the likes of Deepti Sharma Minnu Mani and Shafali delivered with the ball to bundle out the opponents in exactly 20 overs with Bangladesh skipper Nigar Sultana 38 off 55 balls playing a lone handAs far as the home team is concerned there batters too would look to give a much better account of themselves to raise hopes of a consolation win which looks unlikely at the moment given the Indian teams allround strength even though the Bangladesh bowlers did extremely well to restrict the visitors in their last outingTeamsIndia Harmanpreet Kaur c Smriti Mandhana Deepti Sharma Shefali Verma Jemimah Rodrigues Yastika Bhatia wk Harleen Deol Devika Vaidya Uma Chhetri wk Amanjot Kaur S Meghna Pooja Vastrakar Meghna Singh Anjali Sarwani Monika Patel Rashi Kanojia Anusha Bareddi Minnu ManiBangladesh Nigar Sultana cw Shamima Sultana Murshida Khatun Sobhana Mostary Shorna Akter Ritu Moni Nahida Akter Fahima Khatun Rabeya Khan Shanjida Akter Salma Khatun Marufa Akter Dilara Akter Disha Biswas Sultana Khatun Shathi Rani