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The defending champion Indian women’s cricket team will play the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the second match of the Asia Cup on Sunday. The Indian team, captained by Harmanpreet Kaur, had defeated its biggest rival Pakistan by 7 wickets in the first match.
Last clashed in 2022
The Indian team last defeated UAE by 104 runs in the 2022 Asia Cup. In that match, Jemimah Rodriguez played an inning of 75 runs on 45 balls.
In 2022, Jemimah Rodriguez scored 75 runs on 45 balls against UAE.
The Indian Women’s team has dominated the Asia Cup. India has won the Asia Cup T20 title three times out of four and the 50-over format of the Asia Cup all four times. India has won 17 out of 20 matches in the Women’s Asia Cup T20 tournament. The team had defeated Bangladesh in the 2022 final.
Earlier this month, India’s T20 series with South Africa was a 1-1 draw. Whereas the second of the three T20 matches was washed out due to rain. The best thing for India is the excellent form of Smriti Mandhana and Shefali. Both of them had made a partnership of 85 runs against Pakistan. Smriti scored 45 runs and Shefali scored 40 runs. In the bowling department, Deepti Sharma got 3 wickets and Renuka Thakur got 2 wickets.
UAE lost its first match to Nepal by 6 wickets. Pakistan will face Nepal tomorrow in Group A. The top two teams from both the groups will play the semi-finals. Nepal is playing in the tournament for the first time since 2016 while this is UAE’s second consecutive tournament.
Match Details Tournament- Women’s Asia Cup Date- 20th July Match- India Vs United Arab Emirates (UAE) Toss- 1:30 PM, Match Start- 2:00PM Stadium- Rangiri Dambulla Stadium, Sri Lanka
last 5 matches
head to head
eyes on the stars
Toss roll and pitch report
All the matches of the Asia Cup to be held in Sri Lanka will be played here at Rangiri Dambulla Stadium. So far 6 Women’s T-20 Internationals have been played here. In which the team batting first after winning the toss has won 5 matches. The captains of both the teams would like to win the toss and take batting.
Weather Report and Match Prediction
The Indian women’s team is in form right now. In the last match it had defeated Pakistan and recently won the series from South Africa. Even if we look at the head to head record, the Indian team is ahead of UAE. India’s chances of winning this match are 90%. There is no chance of rain in Dambulla tomorrow.
Possible playing
India: Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain)Smriti Mandhana, Shefali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh, Pooja Vastrakar, Deepti Sharma, Renuka Singh, D Hemalatha, Radha Yadav and Shreyanka Patil.
UAE: Esha Rohit Ojha (captain), Kavisha Kumari, Ritika Rajat, Samaira D, Lavanya Kenny, Emily Thomas, Heena Hochandani, Mehak Thakur, Induja Nandkumar, Suti Satish and Vaishnavi Mahesh.
Women’s Asia Cup winner
Women’s Asia Cup started in 2004. When India won it. Women’s Asia Cup has been held 8 times so far. India has won this tournament 7 times while Bangladesh has won the Asia Cup 1 time.
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