As of today, India and Pakistan have played only 15 Twenty20 Internationals against each other, the first coming during the inaugural Women’s T20 World Cup in 2009. India has emerged victorious in 12 of these encounters while Pakistan managed to win only 3.
Since its inception when it was won by Great Britain in 1993, each of the two nations with CWI saw action against each other five times respectively each team winning as many as India again coming out on top. This contest, however, will take place for the eighth time on Sunday – during the ongoing 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup.
This time, however, there is a new twist India began its 2024 campaign by suffering an embarrassing loss to New Zealand in Dubai the margin being 58 runs while Pakistan started with a win having whipped Sri Lanka in their first game by 31 runs.
India now find themselves in a position where it is either win all their last 3 games or be out of the tournament preliminary stage and qualify for the super eights where they must win all matches in order to qualify for the world cup in India. On the other hand, Pakistan will come out fresh from winning the Asia Cup edging out Sri Lanka and will be aiming to make things very hard for India when they clashed with each other.
Here is an overview of the past meetings between the two armies, this time, their women’s teams especially focusing on ICC Women’s T20 World Cup:
T20 World cup 2009: India won by 5 wickets
On 13th June at Taunton was the first game between the two sides in T20Is. Pakistan won the toss and batted first in the County Ground. The Indian bowlers, after a five-wicket haul from Priyanka Roy, demolished Pakistan for a meager 75 runs in 19.5 overs. It was a comfortable win for India as they took just 17.4 overs to reach the small target of 76 and won the match by 5 wickets. Of the Indian hitters, Anjum Chopra, who scored 37 runs based on 52 balls was the surface player in this chase.
2010 T20 World Cup: India Won by 9 wickets
In the next T20 World Cup, India played Pakistan for the second time ever, and this game also happened to be in the West Indies. Pakistan won the toss and opted to bat first. They had to cope with the Priyanka Roy’s Indian attack once more, but this time, they reached a rather modest 104/6 in their 20 overs. Roy returned the figures of three wickets at the expense of 19 runs in 4 overs. However, the posted total was relatively less for the Indian batting order as they achieved the target in just 16.4 overs ending with losing 1 wicket. Poonam Raut put 54 not out from 54 to take home the ‘Man-of-the-Match’ award.
2012 T20 World Cup: Pakistan won by 1 run
The third India vs Pakistan encounter took place in Galle. Pakistan won the coin toss for the third successive match, and this time chose to bat first. Pakistan’s innings produced a modest score of 98 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs, with Sana Mir putting up 26 runs off 38 balls. This time the tide was turned, India failed in the end once again and only managed to finish one knee away on one run. Nida Dar (3/12 in 4 overs) and the others restricted India to the score of 97/8 with 20 overs played. Jhulan Goswami was the top scorer for the Indian team scoring only 21 runs from 24 balls faced.
2014 T20 World Cup: India won by 6 runs
For the quarter finals, India and Pakistan played each other in the Qualification play-offs in Sylhet as both the teams could not qualify for the knockout round. India chose to bat first this time and made 106 runs and lost 7 wickets in 20 overs, with Mithali Raj scoring 39 runs from 43 balls. From the Pakistani bowlers, Sania Khan was outstanding, ending with the economy rate of 3 for 15 in 4 overs. They then sailed home with an easy win as they bowled out the Pakistanis for 100/9 winning by six runs. Soniya Dabir picked 3 wickets for 14 runs in her four over spell.
2016 T20 World Cup: Pakistan won by 2 runs (DLS)
It was a terrible campaign for India who were sharing the host responsibility for this tournament for the first time. The match was held in Delhi where India took on its arch rival Pakistan. In this match Pakistan let India bat first but India scored low of 96/7 in twenty overs. Pakistan was chasing 3 wickets and 77 on board as rain interrupted and play was called off. Their reply had already placed them two runs ahead of the par but with no further play possible, the result was announced in their favour.
2018 T20 World Cup: India won by 7 wickets
With this, for the first time after 36 years, the Women’s T20 World Cup was won outside England as ‘Defence team’ after late-order stalwart Kumar struck for the hosts. Pakistan, replying first, managed to fabricate its highest ever T20 World Cup mount of 133/7 at that instant, in Providence after sending them in first to bat with the help of a swift fifty from Bismah Maroof (53 of 49 balls). But in one of Mithali Raj’s best World Cup innings, with India needing 56 runs, she scored 47 runs, in just 19 overs risking losing 3 wickets. This match is also well known because ten penalty runs were slapped to India due to Pakistani players running onto the danger area of the pitch after two incidents when it was still play time.
2023 T20 World Cup: India clinched the match by 7 wickets.
Pakistan recorded their highest score against India in a T20 world cup match in the last edition of the competition – in South Africa. Therewith to the overturning of Yoruba origins, was the south ovations A Paribal. Pitches had been recapacity bias and bias in and no forece fixed. However it turned out to be just short of India crossing the hurdle as there was one over remaining in the stumps. Off just 28 deliveries, Jemimah Rodrigues scored a blistering and unbroken 53 to help India reach 21 runs at 151/3 in 19 overs.
