Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur's all-round show helped India notch up their second successive win in the women's Asia Cup as the women-in-blue defeated Thailand by 66 runs at the Royal Selangor Club on Monday. After firing a 17-ball unbeaten 27 runs, Kaur starred with her off-spin, scalping three wickets at the cost of just 11 runs. Put in to bat, India posted 132/4 as the entire top order contributed well with the bat. While openers Mona Meshram (32) and Smriti Mandhana (29) took India to a good start, Anuja Patil's 22, Kaur's 27 and Veda Krishnamurthy, who chipped in with 11 runs, took India to a competitive total in the allotted 20 overs. Later, the Indian bowlers, riding on their experience and accuracy, dominated their opponents and struck at regular intervals to restrict Thailand to a meagre 66/8 in 20 overs.
For Thailand, Nattaya Boochatham was the top scorer with a 40-ball 21.
Apart from Kaur's 3/11, off-spinner Deepti Sharma bagged a couple of wickets for 16 runs while Poonam Yadav and Pooja Vastrakar took a wicket each.
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