New Delhi. The Indian women's cricket team has made a comeback in the T20 World Cup 2024. After losing the first match, Team India has kept its hopes of reaching the semi-finals alive by defeating Pakistan by 6 wickets in the second match. In the match played in Dubai, India first stopped Pakistan at 105 runs. After this, Team India achieved the target by losing 4 wickets. Harmanpreet Kaur and company were defeated by New Zealand by 58 runs in the first match. The Indian team still has to play two more matches in the league stage. Team India will take on Sri Lanka on Wednesday (October 09) while it will face Australia on October 13.

Chasing the target of 106 runs set by Pakistan, the Indian team (India Women vs Pakistan Women) scored 108 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 18.5 overs. Opener Smriti Mandhana was dismissed on a score of 18. Mandhana was caught by Tuba Hasan off Sadia Iqbal for 7 runs. After this, Shefali Verma and Jemima Rodrigues handled the innings. India had scored 50 runs for the loss of one wicket in 10 overs. Shefali was dismissed after scoring 32 runs off 35 balls. Jemima Rodrigues returned to the pavilion after scoring 28 runs off 23 balls. Wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh returned to the pavilion after being caught by the wicketkeeper on the very first ball. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur retired hurt after scoring 29 runs.

Pakistan team collapsed for 105 runs.
Earlier, in the match played in Dubai, India bowled tightly and stopped Pakistan at 105 runs for 8 wickets. Shreyanka Patil and Arundhati Reddy bowled economically for India. Arundhati gave her best performance in T20 International by taking three wickets for 19 runs in 4 overs. Shreyanka took two wickets for 12 runs in four overs. While Renuka Singh, Deepti Sharma, and Sobhana Asha got one success each. For Pakistan, experienced Nida Dar contributed the most 28 runs. The former captain hit a four in her 34-ball innings. Opener Muniba Ali scored 17 runs in 26 balls with the help of two fours, while in the lower order, Syeda Arub Shah scored an unbeaten 14 runs in 17 balls.

Renuka bowled Gul
Ferozza in the first over itself without opening her account. Muniba, however, accelerated the run rate with two fours in the second over of this bowler. From the other end, Sidra Amin (8) was bowled in the second such attempt after hitting a four on a sweep shot against Deepti. Pakistan had scored 29 runs for two wickets in the power play. Asha dropped a very easy catch of Muniba at short fine leg on Arundhati's ball but in the same over, Shefali made no mistake in catching Omaima Sohail (3). Pakistan's batsmen were trying to play big shots but the Indian bowlers had tightened the noose. Muniba came out of the crease against Shreyanka but there was no contact between the ball and the bat and wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh did not take long to scatter the stumps. This over of Shreyanka was maiden due to which after 10 overs Pakistan's score was 41 runs on four wickets.

Nida ended the 38-ball drought by hitting a four off Renuka's ball.
Nida ended the 38-ball drought by hitting a four off the last ball of the 11th over against Renuka. Pakistan completed its half-century in the next over but Arundhati dismissed Alia Riaz (four) LBW in the 13th over and sent half the team to the pavilion. In the same over, Asha dropped her second catch of the match and gave Nida a new lease of life. Pakistan's captain Fatima Sana adopted an aggressive approach against Asha in the next over and hit two consecutive fours but in the third attempt, the ball took the upper edge of her bat and Richa behind the wicket took a brilliant catch, ending her aggressive innings of 13 runs in eight balls. Shreyanka sent Tuba Hasan back to the pavilion without opening her account. Syeda meanwhile hit a four against Deepti. Arundhati bowled Nida in the 20th over but Nashra Sandhu scored an unbeaten six runs with the help of a four on the last two balls to take the team past 100.