Women’s Asia Cup T20 | India will come with a strong team against Pakistan to continue the winning campaign

Sylhet. India, who registered an easy win despite giving new players a chance in the previous matches, will go into the Women’s Asia Cup T20 cricket tournament with a strong side to continue their winning campaign in the match against Pakistan here on Friday. India made a total of eight changes in the last two matches to give chances to their second-class players but the Harmanpreet Kaur-led side will likely go with their key players against the title contenders, Pakistan.

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Pakistan suffered a four-wicket defeat at the hands of Thailand’s weak team on Thursday. His team will not even get enough chance to recover from this upset before taking the field against India. Both these teams are currently in the first two places in the table. India has won three matches in a row and is at the top of the table. After the match against Sri Lanka, India had rested the opening pair of Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana in the last one match, but both of them are sure to come together again for a strong start against Pakistan. Shefali, who plays long shots, will be under pressure as her confidence seems to be shaken.

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She did spend some time at the crease against Malaysia but she was not seen playing in her natural style at any time. With not many days left in the Women’s T20 World Cup, the young batsman will try to regain his lost confidence by playing aggressive innings in his natural style. Mandhana and skipper Harmanpreet, on the other hand, have reached here after performing brilliantly in the limited overs series against England. Jemima Rodrigues, who has returned from injury, has been in excellent form. He also scored a fifty against the United Arab Emirates after scoring his career-highest score against Sri Lanka. Deepti Sharma also scored a half-century in this match.

The Indian bowlers have done well in the last three matches and will leave no stone unturned to continue against Pakistan. As far as Pakistan is concerned, their batsmen didn’t get much of an opportunity against Malaysia and Bangladesh as they had a small target in front of them, but against Thailand they failed to make an impact. Pakistan scored 116 for five in this match and only Sidra Amin could score a half-century. The Pakistan bowlers had done well in the first two matches but against Thailand they did not have a big total to defend. There is always curiosity about the match between India and Pakistan, but in the two matches played between these two teams so far this year, the Indian team registered easy wins. India had easily defeated Pakistan in the Commonwealth Games in July. India was victorious in the last five matches played between these two teams.

Squad: India: Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Shefali Verma, Jemima Rodrigues, Sabineni Meghna, Richa Ghosh (WK), Sneh Rana, Dayalan Hemlata, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Pooja Vastrakar, Rajeshwari Gaikwad, Radha Yadav and KP Navgire. Pakistan: Bismah Maroof (Captain), Aiman ​​Anwar, Alia Riaz, Ayesha Naseem, Diana Baig, Kainat Imtiaz, Muniba Ali, Nida Dar, Omaima Sohail, Sadaf Shamas, Sadia Iqbal, Sidra Amin, Sidra Nawaz and Tuba Hassan. The match will start at 1 pm Indian time.