New Delhi: The Indian Women's Cricket Team's journey to win the T20 World Cup continues, the women's team has defeated Ireland by 52 runs in Group A in Guyana on Thursday, and entered the semi-finals. The Indian team has reached the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup eight years later. The Indian team batted first and with the help of Mithali Raj (51 runs) they scored 145 for six in 20 overs, in reply Ireland's team only made  93 runs for eight in 20 overs.

Ireland's chasing the target of 146 runs from India was very weak, the team lost the first wicket in the form of Gabriel Lewis on 27 runs, shortly after Clarche Shillington got out with 23 runs. . Reaching 84 runs, Ireland's five wickets fell. Ireland's hopes of winning were over. Ireland had lost eight wickets till 20 overs and the score was only 93 runs. The most 33-runs scored by Isobel Joyce.

On behalf of India, Radha Yadav took the maximum three wickets. Earlier Ireland won the toss and invited India to bat first, Mithali, together with their opening partner Smriti Mandhana (33), gave the team a solid start, the pair added 67 runs in 10 overs for the first wicket, although The middle and lower order of it has not been able to make big scores. Mithali was lonely at one end. She was dismissed on the third ball of the 19th over. Besides her Jemima Rodriguez (18), Captain Harmanpreet Kaur (07), Veda Krishnamurthy (09) could not do anything special.