Cricket News: Mandhana’s 90 pips Harmanpreet blitz in a nail-biter

Smriti Mandhana scored a classy 67-ball 90 but her side, Trailblazers, survived by the skin of their teeth, as Harmanpreet Kaur threatened to pull off a near-impossible feat in the final over of the game. Eventually, the Supernovas finished just two runs short of Trailblazers' total of 140 for 5, getting the Women's T20 Challenge off to a rollicking start. Chasing a 141-run target, Supernovas' opener Priya Punia fell shortly with just six runs on board. Chamari Athapaththu and Jemimah Rodrigues then added 49 runs for the second wicket in just 27 balls in quick succession before the latter fell short of the crease while trying to convert a single.