NEW DELHI: India’s hopes of reaching the Ladies’s T20 World Cup semifinals rested on Pakistan’s victory over New Zealand within the Group A match. Pakistan’s bowlers carried out properly, limiting the White Ferns to 110/6.
Nonetheless, their batters could not construct on that effort, collapsing to a dismal 56 in 11.4 overs as they and India have been eradicated from the event.
Pakistan went after the goal from the primary ball, altering their batting order by selling Aliya Riyaz to open alongside Muneeba Ali. Regardless of a few early boundaries, wickets tumbled rapidly, and Pakistan slipped from 19/1 to twenty-eight/5 by the tip of the Powerplay.
Nida Dar and Fatima Sana tried to revive Pakistan’s chase with a 24-run partnership, however Amelia Kerr broke the stand by dismissing Nida within the tenth over, leaving Pakistan at 52/6.
What adopted was a speedy collapse, because the final 4 wickets fell for simply 4 runs, with Pakistan bowled out for a mere 56.
Kerr sealed New Zealand’s semifinal berth, their first since 2016, by dismissing Fatima Sana and Sadia Iqbal within the twelfth over, wrapping up the match for New Zealand.
Pakistan’s complete of 56 all out is their lowest ever in Ladies’s T20Is and the second-lowest by any group towards New Zealand Ladies, following Bangladesh Ladies’s 32 all-out at Christchurch in 2022.
New Zealand grew to become the second group from Group A to make it to the last-four after holders Australia completed on prime.
