In the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026, the Indian team has started its winning campaign in the tournament by giving a crushing defeat to Pakistan in its first match. In the match played in Birmingham, the Indian team defeated Pakistan by 64 runs. Batting first, the Indian team scored a huge score of 170 runs in 20 overs. In reply, Pakistan team, which came to chase the target, got bundled out for only 104 runs and India won the match.
Let us tell you that this is India’s seventh victory against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup. In response to the target of 171 runs set by India, Pakistan had at one time scored 52 runs in 6 overs. The Pakistani players who came to open gave a great start. Pakistan had made such a big score for the first time in the powerplay against India in a T20 International, but from the seventh over, the Indian bowlers gave a crushing defeat to Pakistan with tight bowling and taking wickets at regular intervals. The spin bowlers of the Indian team played an important role in this match.
Deepti Sharma was the game changer of this big victory of the Indian team against Pakistan. With her bowling, Deepti stopped the Pakistani players from scoring runs. He displayed brilliant bowling and took 5 wickets for 10 runs in his 4 overs. With this, Deepti was declared the player of the match. Deepti Sharma gave the first blow to Pakistan in the form of Gul Faroz who returned to the pavilion after scoring 12 runs. Deepti has made a new record. He also completed 350 wickets in international cricket. She has become the second female bowler in the world to achieve such a feat.
While on one hand Deepti took 5 wickets, on the other hand, Shri Charani also helped a lot in bowling to stop the runs of Pakistan team. In this match, Shri Charani took 3 wickets for 21 runs in 4 overs. Shafali Verma also got 1 wicket.
Indian women’s team won the toss and batted first and scored 170 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. For India, opening batsman Smriti Mandhana performed brilliantly and scored 68 runs in 44 balls. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur contributed 36 runs in 35 balls, while Richa Ghosh played a swashbuckling inning of 34 runs in 17 balls.
The Pakistan team, which came to chase the target of 171 runs, did not have a good start. On behalf of the team, opener Muniba Ali scored the maximum 41 runs, but she did not get enough support from the other batsmen. Gul Firozha and Ayesha Zafar scored 12 runs each, while Saira Jabeen 2, Natalia Parvez 7 and captain Sana Fatima were out without opening the account. Aliya Riaz scored 18 runs, but could not lead the team to victory. In the lower order, Ramin Shamim 4, Nashra Sandhu 4 and Tasmiya Rubab returned to the pavilion without opening the account. Pakistan’s entire batting faltered in front of the Indian bowlers and the team remained far away from the target.
India: Smriti Mandhana, Shefali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Bharti Fulmali, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Deepti Sharma, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Sri Charani, Kranti Gaur.
Pakistan: Gul Firozha, Muniba Ali (wk), Ayesha Zafar, Saira Jabeen, Aliya Riaz, Natalia Parvez, Fatima Sana (c), Ramin Shamim, Nashra Sandhu, Tasmiya Rubab, Sadia Iqbal.
