India and Pakistan Women's Cricket Teams Set for T20 Asia Cup 2024 Clash
High-stakes match in Dambulla to feature star players Smriti Mandhana and Nida Dar as India aims to maintain historical dominance
The two biggest teams of the cricket world will face each other on July 19 in the T20 Asia Cup 2024. This match between the women's cricket team of India and Pakistan will be held in Dambulla, Sri Lanka. Which will start at 6.30 pm Indian time. If we look at the record of the last one year of both the teams, Team India has played 17 T20 matches and their win-loss record is 10-5. They won the Asian Games gold medal in Hangzhou by defeating Sri Lanka by 19 runs in the final.
After this, India lost two consecutive series at home against England and Australia, defeated Bangladesh 5-0 in Sylhet and recently finished their three-match series against South Africa in Chennai at 1-1, in which the second match was washed out due to rain after one innings. On the other hand, Pakistan has played more T20I cricket matches during this period than India. Pakistan has won seven out of 19 matches during this period, while losing 12. Before the Asian Games, they hosted South Africa at home and won 3-0. Related News
The Pakistani team reached the semi-finals in the Asian Games, but lost to Sri Lanka there and then lost to Bangladesh in the bronze medal playoff. Since then they have lost T20I series at home in Bangladesh and against the West Indies and recently lost 3-0 in England. Pakistan's only series win came in New Zealand late last year when they won 2-1.
There have been 14 matches between the two teams in the last few years. India has won 11 matches. On the other hand, India has the upper hand in the Asia Cup. India has won five out of the six matches played against Pakistan. However, the one match Pakistan won was in the last Asia Cup played in Sylhet in 2022. Both the countries have not played a bilateral series for some reason, the only time such a match took place between the two countries was during the T20 World Cup 2016 in Delhi, when Pakistan defeated India by two runs in a match interrupted due to rain. However, this is one of the three matches when Pakistan has won against India in T20 International matches.
Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma are a destructive opening pair for India. Mandhana has scored 3320 T20 runs at an average of 28.13 and a strike rate of 121.83. Shefali has scored 1748 runs at an average of 24.27 and a strike rate of 129.48. In such a situation, this pair will be a tension for Pakistan. The star captain for Pakistan is Nida Dar, who is a bowling all-rounder, she is a wicket-taking bowler. At the same time, Sidra Amin is in great form with the bat, she has scored 205 runs in eight innings this year.
The Women's Asia Cup 2024 will be broadcast on Star Sports Network. At the same time, live streaming of this match in India will be available on Disney + Hotstar app and website.
India's squad for Asia Cup 2024: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Uma Chhetri (wicketkeeper), Smriti Mandhana (wicketkeeper), Shefali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Jemima Rodrigues, Renuka Thakur, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Shobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sajna Sajeevan.
Pakistan squad for Asia Cup 2024: Nida Dar (captain), Iram Javed, Sadia Iqbal, Alia Riaz, Diana Baig, Fatima Sana, Gul Feroza, Muniba Ali, Sidra Amin, Naziha Alvi, Syeda Arub Shah, Nashra Sundhu, Tasmia Rubab, Omaima Sohail, Tuba Hasan.
