India vs Netherlands Highlights, Women’s T20 World Cup 2026: Mandhana, Sree Charani & Shafali shine in IND’s 95-run win
India vs Netherlands (IND-W vs NED-W) Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 Highlights: A dominant Indian women’s team registered their second consecutive win of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 as they thrashed the Netherlands by 95 runs in the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 Group A game at Headingley in Leeds on Wednesday.
Sree Charani’s four-wicket haul, Shafali Verma’s three wickets & Nandini Sharma’s two wickets ripped through the Dutch batting unit, dismissing them for a paltry 114 in 17.3 overs.
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Earlier, Smriti Mandhana and Shafali added 115 for the opening wicket before the former was dismissed on 55 by Heather Siegers. Jemimah Rodrigues then joined Mandhana and added 47 for the second wicket. Small cameos from Richa Ghosh, Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma took India W to 209/5 in 20 overs after Babette de Leede won the toss and elected to bowl first.
India opened their T20 World Cup campaign with a 64-run win over Pakistan in Birmingham. It was again a Mandhana show against Pakistan as she held India’s innings together after the Women in Blue lost both Shafali and Jemimah early. Her composed a 44-ball 68 helped India post 170/6. In bowling, Deepti Sharma’s five-wicket haul ensured Pakistan were bundled out for 106, giving India a big win to start on high. The Dutch began their campaign with a loss to Bangladesh by six wickets in Birmingham.
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From Tata Steel desk to World Cup: Siegers set for Netherlands vs India clash
(Left) Heather Siegers after winning the Player of the Match award in the T20 World Cup qualifier against USA in January 2026 that helped seal qualification for the T20 World Cup; (right) In training in England last week
Not many employees at Tata Steel’s Velsen-Noord office had realised that their new colleague, who joined as a trainee in August 2025, was a former captain of the Netherlands women’s cricket team. Cricket remains a niche sport in the Netherlands. Heather Siegers’ achievement, hence, went unsurprisingly unnoticed.
“My colleagues weren’t aware of my background and any form of cricket, really. Cricket isn’t very big back home and only a few of my colleagues know much about cricket,” Siegers told The Indian Express. (READ MORE)