India vs Pakistan Women's T20: Pakistan Rebuilding After Losing Wickets

Overs10.2 Score74 - 3 Shreyanka Patil to Natalia Pervaiz, Flighted, around off, Natalia Pervaiz goes down on her knee and sweeps this through mid-wicket for a single. The throw comes in from the deep from Jemimah Rodrigues towards Patil and it catches her around her abdomen. Patil is down and in some pain.

Halfway through the run chase. Pakistan are 72/3 and after 10 overs, India were 65/2. But they were in the ascendancy through that Harmanpreet-Mandhana alliance. Pakistan are rebuilding at this point and need 98 runs from 60 balls.

Overs9.3 Score65 - 3 Sree Charani to Muneeba Ali, Under-cutter, around off, going across the batter, Muneeba Ali chips this from the cue end off her bat towards long off. The ball falls just short of Kranti Gaud and the batters run two as a bad bounce takes the ball past her.

1 Overs9.2 Score63 - 3 Sree Charani to Natalia Pervaiz, Just in! Full and around off, Natalia Pervaiz pushes this to the right of Harmanpreet Kaur at extra cover. The Indian skipper puts in a dive and fields this, throwing it towards Richa Ghosh at the batter's end. Richa gathers this in front of the stumps and takes the bails off. The Indian team starts celebrating, assuming that Muneeba Ali is short of her ground, but it only took a background check from the TV umpire to turn down this run-out appeal.

0 Overs8.1 Score59 - 3 Deepti Sharma to Natalia Pervaiz, An appeal for LBW, but the umpire turns it down, and Harmanpreet Kaur has opted for DRS. Deepti comes around the stumps, tosses this up on middle and leg and angling away with the arm. Natalia Pervaiz goes down on her knee and attempts the sweep but misses. The ball sneaks under the bat and hits her on the back pad. Loud appeal from the Indian players, but the umpire shakes it off. Kaur sends this upstairs. UltraEdge shows no spike as the ball passes the bat. The Ball Tracking confirms that the ball would have clipped the side of the off-stump. It is umpire's call and the on-field decision of NOT OUT stays.

W Overs7.4 Score58 - 3 Sree Charani to Saira Jabeen, OUT! CAUGHT! A soft dismissal. After a promising start, Pakistan are losing their way slightly. Bowled on a length, on middle and leg. Jabeen gets forward and tries to work the ball away on the leg side with a closed bat face. The ball straightens a bit to catch the leading edge. It balloons to cover, where Harmanpreet Kaur takes a dolly. 53/1 has now become 58/3 for Pakistan.

Muneeba Ali has been doing well in picking up the loose deliveries and she might just need to shift a gear down for the next 3-4 overs to avoid any chances of a beginning of a collapse.

W Overs6.3 Score53 - 2 Deepti Sharma to Ayesha Zafar, OUT! CAUGHT! A fine grab by Smriti Mandhana. Wickets off successive overs for Deepti Sharma. Ayesha Zafar's stay is short. A bit of air given, on a length, on middle and leg. Ayesha drops to a knee and goes hard on the sweep. She can't keep it down and hits it to short fine leg, where Smriti Mandhana is a bit square. Mandhana reacts quickly as she gets low and manages to get her hands under the ball to take the catch. Pakistan Women are now 53/2.

DRINKS! Pakistan Women end up at 52 for 1 after the first 6 overs and this also happens to be the highest Powerplay total for Pakistan Women against India Women in all T20Is, informed by Jatin Sapru on air. Muneeba Ali showed the intentions right away by hitting a boundary on the first ball of this run-chase that Pakistan are not going to hang around milking the ball but will go for the chase. Despite losing Gull Feroza, Muneeba Ali, along with Ayesha Zafar, continues to score at a rapid pace. India Women will need to keep making inroads to disrupt the scoring rate.

2 Overs5.6 Score52 - 1 Arundhati Reddy to Ayesha Zafar, Lands it on a short of a length, on middle. Ayesha presses back and pulls it wide of short fine leg. Deepti Sharma dives to her left and makes a half-stop. It is mopped by the backward square leg fielder. Two runs taken. 13 runs off the over. Reddy's figures read 2-0-21-0.

4 Overs5.3 Score48 - 1 Arundhati Reddy to Ayesha Zafar, FOUR MORE! Width offered and Zafar cashes in! Reddy drags the length back but errs in line, wide on off. Ayesh flashes at the ball and gets it away to the left of backward point for another boundary.

1 Overs4.4 Score38 - 0 Deepti Sharma to Muneeba Ali, Offers flight again, full and on off. Muneeba Ali advances down the track and swings hard. She loses her shape and miscues it off the inner half to deep mid-wicket for one.

0 Overs4.3 Score37 - 0 Deepti Sharma to Muneeba Ali, Slower through the air, fuller and on off. Muneeba Ali reaches out in front for the sweep. Gets an inside edge and it rolls to short fine leg.

0 Overs4.2 Score37 - 0 Deepti Sharma to Muneeba Ali, Flatter and shorter, outside off. A lot of width on offer. It is there to be put away but Ali cannot beat the fielder at point with the cut.

1 Overs3.6 Score37 - 0 Shreyanka Patil to Muneeba Ali, Pitched fuller around off, Ali creams it through cover for a single. 12 runs from the over. 26 from the last 2 for Pakistan.