The Women’s T20 World Cup campaign has begun, as India Women one of the most favourite sides claim their first-ever victory in the World Cup of the shortest format of the game. Having played only a single final they lost it at the hands of the Australian Women, the 6 times Women’s T20 World champions.
India began their campaign against New Zealand women, as they broke a years-long record to defeat India in a World Cup match, as the Women in Blue suffered a 52-run loss in their opening match.
However, India Women earned their first points in the group stage games from Group A, as they won their second match against Pakistan Women, and earned their first points in the points table.
The Women in Blue are now placed 4th in the points table only above Sri Lanka Women, the team who have lost both their opening games. India now has two matches left in the group stage, against Australia Women and Sri Lanka Women, and they need to win both in order to reach the semi-finals.
With all wins India Women can extend their points to a maximum of 6 points. However, this point can take them through to the semis only if New Zealand can manage to defeat the mighty Aussie women and also Pakistan women face a defeat either from Australia or New Zealand women.
The next most unforeseen situation arises, if New Zealand women, Pakistan Women as well and Indian women win all their matches, then the trio might have 6 points each, and the semi-final spots might be decided upon net run rate.
The most likely scenario from here arises, if India wins against Sri Lanka to whom they lost the Asia Cup final, and they lose their final group stage encounter against Australia, then they would depend on either New Zealand women or Australian women, to lose both their games against Australia or Pakistan and New Zealand or Pakistan respectively.
Such a situation would find a tie between 3 teams, on four points among whom only the one team with the highest net run-rate would qualify alongside the table topper who has 6-points and sits at the top of the group stage table.
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