India Women vs South Africa Women Live Cricket Score, T20 World Cup 2026: Kapp scores fifty as SA turn tables on IND
India Women vs South Africa Women T20 World Cup 2026 Live: IND vs SA. (AP Photo)
India Women (IND-W) vs South Africa Women (SA-W) T20 World Cup 2026 Live Cricket Score Updates: Harmanpreet Kaur’s India are off to a dream start while defending a target of 159 against South Africa in Match 18 of the Women’s T20 World Cup at Old Trafford. Their tactic of peppering the South Africans with spinners has worked wonders, with the latter finishing with a paltry score of 25 runs for the loss of two wickets at the end of the powerplay. Shree Charani was the standout for India by some distance, ending the powerplay with a double-wicket maiden sixth over. She had figures of 2/2 in 2 overs at the end of the powerplay.
India were off to a wobbly start batting first. Smriti Mandhana fell early while her opening partner Shafali Verma was dismissed last over of the powerplay just when she was starting to look dangerous. Harmanpreet herself could not make much of an impact in a game in which she became the first player, man or woman, to play 200 T20Is. The same could be said for Jemimah Rodrigues and Richa Ghosh later.
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Harmanpreet earlier won the toss and said that India are batting first. India has won their first two games against Pakistan and the Netherlands and is looking in pretty good rhythm. Both the bowling and batting departments have fired on all cylinders for the side. However, South Africa will present a challenge in itself.
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T20 World Cup: India’s best at No.3, Jemimah Rodrigues, needs an impactful innings
Jemimah, who has been reinstated to No.3 after being pushed down during the England series, has had a quiet start to the World Cup. (BCCI)
India has enjoyed a flawless start to their T20 World Cup campaign, securing two consecutive wins backed by a strong net run-rate and standout performances from Smriti Mandhana in the batting lineup and Deepti Sharma in the bowling department. However, despite excellent supporting roles from Richa Ghosh and Sree Charani, the team’s lone underlying concern remains the form of their number three batter, Jemimah Rodrigues, who has yet to make an impact on the tournament. (Read more from Shankar Narayan)
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