The arch-rival India vs Pakistan clash of the ICC women’s T20 World Cup 2024 is scheduled to be played on October 6 in Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai.
India lost their opening game of the ICC event against New Zealand and made a terrible start. On the other hand, Fatima Sana Pakistan Women made an impressive start by beating the 2024 Women’s Asia Cup winners in their tournament opener.
This India vs Pakistan match will be the 100th T20I hosted by Dubai International Cricket Stadium, of which 92 have been the men’s games.
Stats to focus
- Indian Women’s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur needs 59 runs to become the second Indian in the top three of the all-time leading run-scores in WT20Is, after Smriti Mandhana (3505).
- A half-century for Shafali Verma will make her enter the 2000-run club.
- Pakistan’s Sadia Iqbal is the leading wicket-taker in T20Is in this World Cup cycle with 39 wickets in 27 innings.
INDW vs PAKW Playing 11
Winning the toss, Pakistan Women decided to bat first. Pakistan’s Diana Baig who sustained a calf injury on Thursday has been sidelined for the clash against India while India missed out Pooja Vastrakar with an injury.
Diana Baig will be replaced by Syeda Aroob Shah while India’s batting allrounder Sajana will replace Pooja Vastrakar.
Pakistan Women: Muneeba Ali(w), Gull Feroza, Sidra Amin, Nida Dar, Aliya Riaz, Omaima Sohail, Fatima Sana(c), Tuba Hassan, Nashra Sandhu, Syeda Aroob Shah, Sadia Iqbal
India Women: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Arundhati Reddy, S Sajana, Shreyanka Patil, Asha Sobhana, Renuka Thakur Singh
During the toss, Pakistan Women captain Fatima Sana said “We will bat first, put up a total on the board. Diana Baig misses out, that’s the only change, she’s replaced by Aroob. It’s a big blow, but we’ve players who can do well in her absence. We’ll try to put up a good total here. I’m excited to lead Pakistan against India”.
Indian Women captain Harmanpreet Kaur said “We would have batted first as well, but we’ll have to bowl well and restrict them. We have one change, Pooja is out with an injury, and she’s been replaced by Sajana. We’ll have to move forward with a positive approach, it’s always how you bounce back and we’ve spoken about it. We will go out there and play some positive cricket”.
