India, June 17 -- It was always going to be tough for the Netherlands to face heavyweights India. Before the fixture, India had declared that along with the two points, they were also eyeing a run rate boost to better their qualification chances in Group 1.

And they did just that with a massive 95-run win over the Netherlands at Leeds on Wednesday. After scoring 209/5, they dismissed the Dutch for just 114.

Indian openers Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana got going rather early, putting on a show as they stitched a mammoth 115-run partnership off 70 balls. Shafali got out after scoring her fifty, but Mandhana marched on and bettered her score from the previous game. It was Mandhana's second successive fifty-plus score while Shafali comp...