india defeated pakistan by 6 wickets in the Women's t20 world cup 2024. This is India's first win in this world cup, before this, under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur, Team india lost to new zealand by 58 runs. pakistan had earlier defeated india in t20 matches only 3 times, while this is India's 13th win against its neighboring country. So let's know what were the 3 main reasons for India's victory this time.

1. Batting took command

If we remember the match against new zealand, the highest score for india was made by captain Harmanpreet Kaur. She scored 15 runs, from which it can be guessed how poor India's performance was in the last match. But the indian batsmen performed well against arch-rival Pakistan. Although Smriti Mandhana got out after scoring 7 runs, but on the slow pitches of Dubai, especially Shefali Verma played an important innings of 32 runs and captain Harmanpreet of 29 runs. Jemima Rodrigues also contributed 23 runs. This time the batsmen played their role very well.

2. arundhati Roy's brilliance

arundhati Roy is currently in good form. She gave only 19 runs while bowling 4 overs in the match against pakistan and also took 3 important wickets. pakistan was continuously losing wickets from one end, but Nida Dar was holding one end. She had scored 28 runs, but arundhati Roy increased the dominance of the indian team in the match by bowling out Nida.

3. Wickets taken at regular intervals

The new zealand team had exposed the indian bowling, where the indian bowlers were thrashed especially in the death overs. But Team india dominated Pakistan's batting from the very beginning. The situation was such that india sent half of Pakistan's team to the pavilion at a score of 52 runs. In the end, the Pakistani team could score only 105 runs in the stipulated 20 overs.


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