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India mislaid Shafali Verma and Jemimah Rodrigues to stutter to 30 for 2 astatine the extremity of the 5th implicit successful their opening Women’s T20 World Cup brushwood against arch-rivals Pakistan successful Birmingham connected Sunday (June 14, 2026).
Verma (6) deed a six disconnected left-arm spinner Sadia Iqbal but the bowler had the past connection arsenic she fired 1 connected limb and mediate enactment to cramp the batter who edged it to keeper Muneeba Ali.
Jemimah’s abbreviated enactment (1) was a conflict and she was retired trying to loft left-arm seamer Tasmia Rubab but lone managing a skier which was taken by Natalia Pervaiz connected 2nd attempt.
However, Smriti Mandhana looked successful bully interaction reaching 20 by the extremity of the 5th over.
India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur won the flip and elected to bat against Pakistan successful their Women's T20 World Cup opener.
Both the captains — Harmanpreet and her Pakistan counterpart Fatima Sana — expectedly did not shingle hands astatine the toss.
India person included Bharti Fulmali successful the eleven for the match.
Teams:
India: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur, Bharti Fulmali, Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani, Shreyanka Patil
Pakistan: Gull Feroza, Muneeba Ali(w), Ayesha Zafar, Saira Jabeen, Aliya Riaz, Natalia Pervaiz, Fatima Sana(c), Rameen Shamim, Nashra Sandhu, Tasmia Rubab, Sadia Iqbal.
