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In the 5th match of the Women's Asia Cup, India defeated the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by a huge margin of 78 runs. With this victory, the Indian women's cricket team has confirmed its place in the semi-finals. Now India will play its last match of the group stage against Nepal on 23 July.

In this match, after losing the toss, Team India came to bat first and scored 201 runs. This was India's first 200 plus score in Women's T20 International. Harmanpreet Kaur played a captaincy innings and scored 66 runs in 47 balls. Wicketkeeper batsman Richa Ghosh played a stormy innings of 64 runs in just 29 balls. While chasing the huge target of 202 runs, the UAE team could score only 123 runs after losing 7 wickets.

Batting first, India had a quick start but lost 3 wickets in the powerplay. Opener Shefali Verma played a brilliant innings of 37 runs in 18 balls, which included a six and 5 fours. Her partner Smriti Mandhana could only score 13 runs in 9 balls. Dayalan Hemalatha, who came at number 3, got out cheaply. After this, Jemimah Rodrigues also could not do anything special. However, she supported captain Harmanpreet well. There was a partnership of 54 runs for the fourth wicket between the two, in which Jemimah contributed 14 runs.

After Jemimah returned to the pavilion, Richa Ghosh started batting aggressively. She hit three fours on the first three balls of the 15th over. From the other end, Harmanpreet was constantly rotating the strike. The Indian captain completed her 12th T20 fifty with a single on the last ball of the 18th over. After this, she sent the last three balls of the 19th over outside the boundary line. However, she returned to the pavilion after being run out on the first ball of the last over of the innings. Harmanpreet hit 7 fours and a six in her innings of 66 runs. After completing her half-century in just 26 balls, Richa Ghosh added 20 runs with five fours in the last over.