India 435 for 5 (Rawal 154, Mandhana 135, Ghosh 59, Prendergast 2-71) beat Ireland 131 (Forbes 41, Prendergast 36, Deepti 3-27, Kanwar 2-31) by 304 runs
Batting first, India piled up 435 for 5, their highest ODI total, going past the 370 for 5 they made in the previous game. Overall, this was the fourth-highest total in women’s ODIs.
Mandhana and Rawal added 233 for the first wicket, the third-highest opening stand for India in ODIs. The floodgates had opened as early as the third over when Rawal hit Orla Prendergast for three fours. By the end of the sixth over, she had moved to 29 off 25 with the help of six fours.
Mandhana did not have much strike till then. She even got a life in the seventh over when wicketkeeper Christina Coulter Reilly, standing up to Arlene Kelly, failed to grab an outside edge. Mandhana was on 12 off 13 at that point but took over the aggressor’s role after that, hitting Kelly for two fours in that over. In the seamer’s next over, Mandhana hit her for two sixes and a four.