10th over
Tuba again. Jemimah drives towards cover but only gets a single. FOUR! Shafali lofts the ball over mid off and gets a boundary. Good shot that.
IND 42/1 in 9 overs
Nashra Sandhu. Strike rotation continues between Jemimah and Shafali. Jemimah attempts a reverse sweep but can’t put the ball past short third.
Is India’s approach too slow?
IND 37/1 in 8 overs
Tuba Hassan. Finally, India hits the first boundary. Shafali pulls the leg spinner towards midwicket for four. Scoring rate has been pretty slow; eyes on NRR.
IND 31/1 in 7 overs
Nashra Sandhu into the attack. Shafali Verma pulls the left-arm spinner towards square leg but can only get a single. India hasn’t hit a single boundary yet. Shafali once again pulls in the same region. Work for the fielder in the deep and she does well to time her dive and save the boundary. Terrific.
IND 25/1 in 6 overs
Omaima Sohail into the attack now. Dead ball by Omaima as she releases the ball prematurely and it falls two pitches away! Follows it up with a wide ball. India finishes the PowerPlay with a single off the last ball.
IND 22/1 in 5 overs
Sadia Iqbal. OUT! Smriti is caught. Loopy delivery, Smriti goes to drive the ball towards square is caught inside the circle. She falls for 7 off 16 balls.
Jemimah Rodrigues in at three. She’s off the mark with a double towards square leg. And another double for Jemimah off the last ball of the over.
IND 18/0 in 4 overs
Now Nida Dar. Shafali drives the ball towards cover and gets a double. Now Smriti sweeps the ball but there’s a fielder in the deep and she’ll only get a single.
IND 14/0 in 3 overs
Fatima Sana into the attack now. Too wide outside off and it goes the keeper as well, five byes for India. India taking a measured route here. Not many attacking shots so far.
IND 8/0 in 2 overs
Sadia Iqbal from the other end. Smriti goes on backfoot and punches the ball past cover. Gets two runs. Four runs in that over.
IND 4/0 in 1 over
Chase begins. Shafali Verma takes the strike and gets a single off the first ball. Smriti Mandhana gets off the mark with a single off her first ball as well. Four singles off the first ball four balls. OUT! Shafali is given LBW. Straight ball, Shafali went to play across the line and is beaten. She has taken a review though. Wickets missing! Brilliant review by Shafali there. Ball was going past leg stump.
PAK 105/8 in 20 overs
Extra fielder in the circle for India due to the slow over rate. Arundhati with the last over. Nida gets a single to long on. Aroob completely mistimes her attempted loft, falls well short of the fielder in the deep. Appeals for lbw as Nida completely misses her shot and is trapped in front. India reviews after the umpire says no. Impact is umpire’s call. WICKET!! Nida is too early into her shot, sees the stumps rattled behind her.
Nida Dar b Reddy 28 (34b)
Nashra in at 10. Drives a full down the ground and scrambles across for the second to take Pakistan past the 100-run mark. Four!! Another lofted shot down the ground and this time it finds the boundary. Pakistan finishes on 105 in 20 overs.
PAK 97/7 in 19 overs
Shreyanka with her last. Nida sweeps a full one to deep fine for a single. Byes!Aroob looks to come down and missed the ball completely. Runs past Richa but the short fine leg fielder cuts it off. Another sweep, falls short of Sajana in the deep. Aroob goes down the ground, trickles to long off for a single.
PAK 89/7 in 18 overs
Deepti with her last. Four!! Tossed up outside off, Aroob lofts it straight down the ground for a boundary. A chance for run out after Nida tries to steal a second after turning one to the legside. Replays suggest she makes it in comfortably with a dive. Walks down the track and clips one to deep mid for a single. 10 runs from the over.
PAK 79/7 in 17 overs
Asha with her last over. Aroob pulls to wide long on for a single. Nida brings out the sweep,only a single to deep square.
PAK 76/7 in 16 overs
Renuka to bowl out. Aroob drives a full ball to long on for a single. A full ball lobs up of Aroob’s bat but falls well short of the fielder at mid off. Pakistan losing its way towards the fag end of the game.
PAK 72/7 in 15 overs
Shreyanka returns. Tuba joins Nida at the middle. WICKET!! Tuba looks for the sweep after a couple of dots. The top edge lobs right up and Shafali runs forward and pouches it.
Tuba Hassan c Shafali Verma b Patil 0 (3b)
Aroob in at 9.
PAK 70/6 in 14 overs
Asha with her third. Fatima gets a single off the first ball. A couple for Nida through mid off. Four!! Fatima shows a glimpse of her hitting ability, moves the front leg across and slog sweeps for a boundary. Four!! Moves across and sweeps through square leg for another four. WICKET!! Stunning catch!! Turn for Asha as Fatima looked for another sweep, catches the faintest of outside edges and Richa does brilliantly well to hold on.
Fatima Sana c Ghosh b Sobhana 13 (8b)
PAK 58/5 in 13 overs
Arundhati back. WICKET!! Appeals for lbw and the umpire has no qualms in raising the finger. Pakistan opts to review. Aliya played down the wrong line. Umpire’s call on hitting and that’s the fifth wicket down.
Aliya Riaz lbw b Reddy 4 (9b)
Fatima in at 7. Dropped! Asha drops another. Fatima looks to cut one, gets the outside edge that lobs up to short third where she can’t hold on. Fatima clubs one over the top of the ring, will get two. Six from the over.
PAK 52/4 in 12 overs
Asha with her second over. Tossed up on the stumps, defended straight back. A top edge as Aliya looks to sweep, falls safely. Fifty up for Pakistan with a single to deep midwicket. Five from the over.
PAK 47/4 in 11 overs
Renuka back for her third. Outside off, cut straight to the point fielder. Yorker length on off, Nida manages to block it out. A single down to long on follows. Aliya drives a full one to deep cover for another single. Four!! Full toss on the stumps, swept through backward square for a boundary.
PAK 41/4 in 10 overs
Shreyanka is back. OUT! Muneeba is stumped. It was coming. Plenty of dot balls in the build up to that dismissal. Came down the track, the ball spun away from the left-hander and an easy stumping for Richa Ghosh.
A huge appeal of caught behind off the very first ball faced by Aliya Riaz. Umpire says not out and India doesn’t review. A wicket maiden.
PAK 41/3 in 9 overs
Asha Sobhana is into the attack now. Plenty of sweep shots being played. Nida Dar ALMOST chips the ball straight back to bowler. A desperate dive by Asha to reach the ball, which falls short of the bowler.
PAK 37/3 in 8 overs
Deepti for her third. Richa Ghosh hasn’t had a great outing so far as a keeper. Just three singles added in that over.
PAK 34/3 in 7 overs
Arundhati is back. Dropped! Asha Sobhana drops a dolly. Muneeba ramps the ball and hits straight to short fine leg fielder. A simple straightforward chance but Asha isn’t able to get hold off the ball. OUT! This time Arundhati gets the wicket. Omaima Sohail chips the ball straight to mid off. No power at all in that stroke.
PAK 29/2 in 6 overs
Shreyanka Patil is into the attack now. Muneeba comes down the track, tries to play an inside out but doesn’t time the ball. The ball goes in the air but lands safely. Plenty of attempted sweeps already. A good over by Shreyanka, just four runs off it.
PAK 25/2 in 5 overs
Deepti Sharma with the change of ends. Too wide down the leg, beats both batter and keeper and Pakistan gets three runs out of it. Sidra hits the ball straight back to bowler and Deepti immediately throws the ball direct at batter’s stumps and appeals for run out. Bat is just inside the crease and Sidra survives. Sidra shuffles across and sweeps the ball past fine leg fielder for four! OUT! Sidra is bowled. Goes for a sweep, was too early for the shot, the ball goes first hit her gloves and then thigh pad and ended up at crashing the stumps.
PAK 18/1 in 4 overs
Arundhati Reddy is into the attack now. Sidra tries sweep but gets beaten. Is hit on the thigh, a short appeal for LBW but nothing much from anyone. Just a single in that over.
PAK 17/1 in 3 overs
Renuka again. Muneeba, left-hander, lofts the ball over mid off and it goes for four! Didn’t time the ball well but had enough bat on the ball. Renuka is now coming around the wicket for the leftie. Another! Full ball and Muneeba once again slogs the ball over mid off and ends the over with another boundary.
PAK 5/1 in 2 overs
Deepti Sharma from the other end. Sidra Amin is the new batter in. She’s off the mark with a single; swept the ball towards deep midwicket. Four singles in that over.
PAK 1/1 in 1 over
Renuka Singh to bowl the first over. Muneeba Ali flicks the ball towards square leg to get this underway with a single. An appeal for LBW against Gull Feroza but umpire says not out. Indians too aren’t excited for it. OUT! Renuka and that inswinger of hers strikes again! Feroza is cleaned up. Terrific over for India.
All set
National anthems are underway.
Done with anthems and it begins!
Pitch report
Match to be played on pitch no. 5 from pitch 3. There is a metre difference at either side. There is hardly a breeze which will make it challenging for the players. It is a challenging pitch. There is a lot of dryness in the surface. The downswing of the batters needs to be adjusted because the pitch is providing the assistance with the grass covering, it might hold up. That might not be the easiest to counter. Don’t think it is going to be a high scoring encounter, reckon Mel Jones and Anjum Chopra.
Playing XIs
India - Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (WK), Deepti Sharma, Sajana Sajeevan, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Asha Sobhana, Renuka Singh Thakur.
Pakistan - Muneeba Ali Siddiqi (WK), Gull Feroza, Sidra Amin, Omaima Sohail, Nida Dar, Aliya Riaz, Fatima Sana Khan (C), Tuba Hassan, Nashra Sundhu, Sadia Iqbal, Syeda Aroob Shah
Toss - Pakistan
Pakistan wins the toss and opts to bat.
India makes one change: Pooja Vastrakar is out, Sajana Sajeevan replaces her.
What happened when India played Pakistan last time?
India Women will aim to rebound from their defeat to New Zealand Women when they take on Pakistan Women in their second match of the T20 World Cup 2024 at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday.
IND-W vs PAK-W head-to-head records in T20Is
Matches played: 15
India won: 12
Pakistan won: 3
Last result: India won by 7 wickets (2024, Dambulla)
A demoralising loss for India in its opening encounter
New Zealand began its Women’s T20 World Cup campaign with a 58-run win over India at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Friday.
IND-W vs PAK-W head-to-head record in T20 World Cup
Matches played: 7
India: 5
Pakistan: 2
Last result: India won by 7 wickets (2023, Cape Town)
SQUADS
India: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh, Yastika Bhatia, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Sobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sajana Sajeevan.
Pakistan: Fatima Sana, Aliya Riaz, Diana Baig, Gull Feroza, Iram Javed, Muneeba Ali, Nashra Sandhu, Nida Dar, Omaima Sohail, Sadaf Shamas, Sidra Ameen, Syeda Aroob Shah, Tasmia Rubab, Tuba Hassan
Match Preview!
Thanks to fabled memories in the men’s vertical and age-old geopolitical tussles in the peninsula, an India vs Pakistan encounter always excites the cricketing masses.
In the women’s game, this fixture has traditionally been a rather one-sided affair, with India winning 12 out of the 15 games. Among the three losses, two have come in the T20 World Cup (2012 and 2016 editions). On paper, India just about has this game in the bag. But, if the first few days of the ongoing T20 World Cup have taught us anything, it is to throw the proverbial paper in the bin.
Pakistan has, for years, shown promise but fallen short in conversion. The team has gifted youngsters who have traditionally been plagued by a lack of adequate opportunities to convert impressive performances to entries in the ‘win’ column.
The year 2024 has brought a little more purpose to the side though. In 16 T20Is this year, Pakistan has won just five - the win against Sri Lanka two days prior, one against West Indies in Karachi, two in the Asia Cup against Nepal and UAE and the other a thrilling triumph against South Africa in Multan. That win over the Proteas came under newly appointed skipper Fatima Sana who is all of 22 and the youngest captain in this World Cup.
- Lavanya L
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A high-on-confidence Pakistan takes on a wounded tiger licking its wounds in India. After a 58-run drubbing at the hands of New Zealand in its World Cup opener, Harmanpreet Kaur and Co. will want to urgently steady its knockouts bid.
Lavanya takes us through the training sessions yesterday!
IND-W vs PAK-W: LIVE STREAMING INFO
The Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 clash between India and Pakistan will begin at 3:30 pm IST. You can catch the LIVE telecast on the Star Sports Network.
You can also catch the LIVE stream on the Disney+ Hotstar app and website.
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Hello and welcome to Sportstar’s live coverage of the Women’s T20 World Cup Group A fixture between India Women and Pakistan Women at Dubai. Stay Tuned as we bring you all the important updates and live scores as the game progresses!
