IND vs PAK, Women's T20 World Cup Highlights: India register record chase to crush Pakistan in Cape Town
India produced a clinical performance even without opener Smriti Mandhana to crush Pakistan by 7 wickets in their opening Group 2 game at the Women's T20 World Cup 2023 in Cape Town on Sunday.
FPJ Web Desk Updated: Sunday, February 12, 2023, 10:06 PM IST
India (151/3) beat Pakistan (149/4) by 7 wickets. Jemimah Rodrigues (53*), Richa Ghosh (31*)
WICKET! Harmanpreet Kaur c Maroof b Nashra Sandhu 16 (12 balls). Looks to play a slog sweep but only manages to top-edge the ball to her opposite number at short third-man. India 93/3 (13.3 ovs) need 57 more from 39 balls
WICKET! Shafali Verma c Ameen b Nashra Sandhu 33 (25 balls). She comes down the track looking for a six, hits it high and straight down the ground but Ameen manages to stay just inside the ropes to take a stunning catch. India 65/2 (9.1 ovs) need 85 runs more from 65 balls
WICKET! Yastika Bhatia c Fatima Sana b Sadia Iqbal 17 (20). Chips a delivery from the spinner straight to the fielder at cover
Radha Yadav: "Today we wanted to bowl in good areas and did that. Couple of misfields here and there. We were in the game... but yeah. (Two wickets, key dismissals) I was just trying to bowl good areas. Ayesha was going after us so was trying to bowl in blockhole. (Ayesha Naseem) Like any other game, we planned. We wanted to give our best. We did pretty well, now we need to hold our nerves and chase it down. (Batting plan) As I said, we just need to keep that in mind and play according to the ball."
Pakistan 149/4 in 20 overs, post their highest-ever T20I total against India after captain Bismah Maroof's unbeaten 68
Pakistan captain Bismah Maroof leading from the front, scores her 12th T20I fifty and fourth in the Women's T20 World Cup off 45 balls. Pakistan 120/4 (17.1 overs)
WICKET! Sidra Ameen c Richa Ghosh b Radha Yadav 11 (18 balls). Pakistan 68/4 in 12.1 overs vs India
Javeria Khan c Harmanpreet Kaur b Deepti Sharma 8 (6 balls) & Muneeba Ali st Richa Ghosh b Radha Yadav 12 (14 balls)
Pitch Report: "Much cooler and better conditions with some breeze here. There are really big "snake-like" marks on the pitch," Dane van Niekerk says, and "might be two-paced," adds Nasser Hussain
Harleen Deol will replace Smriti Mandhana in the Indian playing XI. Mandhana was ruled out of this clash on Saturday with a finger injury
Pakistan Women (Playing XI): Javeria Khan, Muneeba Ali(w), Bismah Maroof(c), Nida Dar, Sidra Ameen, Aliya Riaz, Ayesha Naseem, Fatima Sana, Aiman Anwer, Nashra Sandhu, Sadia Iqbal
India Women (Playing XI): Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Renuka Thakur Singh
Harmanpreet Kaur: We wanted to bat because these wickets are a bit tricky. She (Smriti Mandhana) will be fine but we have added an extra batter for today - Harleen in there, Shikha misses out. I think these wickets will help us, we are a very good bowling side. Our bowlers performed well in the tri-series before as well.
Pakistan captain Bismah Maroof win the toss and opt to bat first against India in Cape Town
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