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‘Jhulan Goswami Backed Me In My Rough Time’- Harmanpreet Kaur Remembers Good Old Days With Veteran Bowler

India provided a fitting farewell to the 39-year-old Jhulan as they won the third and final ODI against England by 16 runs here on Saturday to complete a first-ever clean sweep on English soil.

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India provided a fitting farewell to the 39-year-old Jhulan as they won the third and final ODI against England by 16 runs here on Saturday to complete a first-ever clean sweep on English soil. (Image: Twitter)

London: Heaping praise on the retiring Jhulan Goswami, Indian women’s team skipper Harmanpreet Kaur on Saturday said the iconic seamer was “a go-to person” and supported the batter in her difficult phase.

India provided a fitting farewell to the 39-year-old Jhulan as they won the third and final ODI against England by 16 runs here on Saturday to complete a first ever clean sweep on English soil. With this, India also maintained their winning streak in the ICC Women’s Championship 2022-25. Led by a brilliant bowling display, India defended 169 at the Lord’s in dramatic fashion as they got the last England wicket via runout at the non-striker’s end.

Speaking about Jhulan at the presentation ceremony, Harmanpreet Kaur said, “When I debuted she was a leader, before the game I told her when I was going through the best time people supported me but when I was in a rough time she was the one who supported me”

She added, “I wanted to thank her and tell her she is always with us. She is a go-to person, I always called her at low times and she was someone always guiding me.”

The series whitewash gave India their first such win over England in an ODI series in 20 years. They had beaten England 5-0 at home in 2002. This is, however, the first time India have whitewashed a non-Asian side in a bilateral ODI series of three or more games.

It was a fitting farewell for Goswami in her final international game and her first at the historic venue since the heartbreaking loss to England in the final of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in 2017.

Brief scores: India 169 in 45.4 overs (Deepti Sharma 68 not out, Smriti Mandhana 50; Kate Cross 4-26) beat England 153 in 43.4 overs (Charlotte Dean 47, Amy Jones 28; Renuka Singh 4.29, Jhulan Goswami 2-30) by 16 runs.

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