Match 7 – India v Pakistan
Dubai International Cricket Stadium, 6 October
India 108/4 (18.4) beat Pakistan 105/8 (20.0) by wickets
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10 – India picked up their first win of the campaign with a straightforward victory against Pakistan at Dubai. India now have a 10-2 record against Pakistan across Women’s ODI and T20 World Cups combined.
5 – This was the first time at a T20 World Cup that India women have had five bowlers take at least one wicket while going at an economy rate of a run a ball or better in the same match:
- Renuka Singh 4-0-23-1
- Deepti Sharma 4-0-24-1
- Arundhati Reddy 4-0-19-3
- Shreyanka Patil 4-1-12-2
- Asha Sobhana 4-0-24-1
3 – Player of the match, Arundhati Reddy (4-0-19-3) took the best figures of her international career. Rumeli Dhar (at the 2009 T20 World Cup) and Soniya Dabir (in 2014) are the only previous pace bowlers to take three wicket hauls for India women in T20Is against Pakistan.
105 – Pakistan’s total was their lowest when batting the full 20 overs in a T20I this year.
2,512 – Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana became the second opening pair to amass 2,500 runs together in the format. The other is the Australian duo of Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney (2,643).
2,540 – Hamranpreet Kaur (29*) now has the third most runs by a captain in women’s T20Is, overtaking England’s Charlotte Edwards (2,529).
2 – Fatima Sana (4-0-23-2) became the second Pakistan women’s captain to take two or more wickets in T20I against India. The other was Sana Mir, with 4-13 at Guangzhou in the 2012 Asia Cup final.
133.12 – Fatima Sana’s T20I batting strike rate in 2024 (213 runs at 133.12) is the second highest by any Pakistani woman to have scored 100+ runs in a calendar year
5.73 rpo – With a high possibility that net run-rate will play a part in qualification, India took an unusually low risk approach to the chase, especially in light of their margin of defeat to New Zealand in the opening game, and the bowlers’ efforts in restricting Pakistan to a modest total.
India’s run-rate of 5.73 rpo was the lowest they have achieved when completing a T20 World Cup chase for the loss of four wickets or fewer. Their boundary-free powerplay total of 25/1 was India’s lowest in their last 27 innings, and for the first time in her T20I career, Shafali Verma finished with a strike rate of under 100 after facing 30 balls in a match.
Match 8 – Scotland v West Indies
West Indies 101/4 (11.4) beat Scotland 99/8 (20.0) by 6 wickets
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1 – West Indies got their first points on the board, and boosted their net run-rate, thanks to a convincing win against Scotland. This was the first meeting between the sides in a women’s T20I. Their only previous encounter in any format had been an ODI at Schiedam in 2003, which the Windies won comfortably.
50 – West Indies’ victory at Dubai was their fourth biggest in terms of balls remaining in a T20I, and their second largest win at a T20 World Cup. It had been nine years since West Indies last won a T20I by a margin of fifty balls or more:
- 62 v South Africa at Galle, 2012 (T20 World Cup)
- 56 v Sri Lanka at Potchefstroom, 2010
- 52 v Sri Lanka at R.Premadasa, 2015
- 50 v Scotland at Dubai, 2024 (T20 World Cup)
2 – Chinelle Henry set the tone with four overs of high quality swing bowling to begin the match. Henry became the first bowler to deliver two maidens in a Women’s T20 World Cup match since 2012, and the first pace bowler to do so since Katherine Sciver-Brunt in the final of the inaugural edition in 2009.
Three of the six women to bowl two maidens in a T20 World Cup match have been West Indians:
- Isa Guha(ENG) 4-2-4-2 v SL at Taunton, 2009
- Rumeli Dhar (IND) 4-2-4-2 v SL at Taunton, 2009
- Katherine Sciver-Brunt (ENG) 4-2-6-3 v NZ at Lord’s, 2009
- Stafanie Taylor (WI) 4-2-10-3 v SA at Galle, 2012
- Anisa Mohammed (WI) 4-2-19-0 v SA at Galle, 2012
- Chinelle Henry (WI) 4-2-10-1 v SCO at Dubai, 2024
3 – Afy Fletcher (4-0-22-3) took her best T20 World Cup figures since West Indies championship winning campaign in 2016.
1,000 & 100 – Hayley Matthews (4-0-21-1) became second West Indian woman to take 100 career wickets in T20Is (the other is Anisa Mohammed), and also the fastest woman from any nation to achieve the all-round career double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in the format:
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- 98 Hayley Matthews (WI/BAR)
- 103 Sophie Devine (NZ), Deepti Sharma (IND)
- 104 Ellyse Perry (AUS)
- 106 Nida Dar (PAK)
Mohammed remains the only woman to take 100 wickets in the format solely for the West Indies team, as two of Matthews’ wickets were taken representing Barbados at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
26 – At 26 years 202 days, Matthews was also the second youngest woman to complete the all-round career double, and the fifth youngest bowler to the 100 wicket mark.
170+ – West Indies’ chase was the first Women’s T20 World Cup innings to feature three different players scoring fifteen or more runs at a strike rate of 170 or more:
- Qiana Joseph 31 off 18 (172.22)
- Deandra Dottin 28* off 15 (186.66)
- Chinelle Henry 18* off 10 (180.00)
12.60 rpo – Dottin and Henry’s 5th wicket stand was the third highest run-rate partnership of 25+ runs for West Indies women in the format, and the highest at a World Cup. It had been fifteen years since West Indies had produced a partnership of 25 or more runs at 12+ runs an over. Despite that interval, there was one common denominator in all three partnerships. Dottin:
- 14.40 rpo Dottin & Taylor 48 (20) v SA at Paarl, 2009
- 13.38 rpo Dottin & Samaroo 29 (13) v SA at Paarl, 2009
- 12.60 rpo Dottin & Henry 42* (20) v SCO at Dubai, 2024
24 – Dottin has hit the most sixes in tournament history (24), and is one of three players to have cleared the rope at least once at six different editions of the Women’s T20 World Cup. The others are her West Indies team-mate Stafanie Taylor, and New Zealand’s Sophie Devine.
4 – West Indies hit twice as many sixes in their 11.4 overs (four), as had been hit in all the previous innings at Dubai during this World Cup (two in 135.4 overs).
8.65 rpo – West Indies’ overall run-rate was the highest they have achieved in a T20 World Cup run chase, and the fastest any side has scored in an innings at this edition.
13.50 – Olivia Bell (3-0-18-2) has the best bowling average for a Scottish woman in T20Is against Full Member nations.
Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.