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The biggest threat to India in T20 World Cup, Harbhajan Singh warned

ICC Womens T20 WC: ICC Women's T20 World Cup has started and India has to play its first match in this tournament against New Zealand on October 4. According to Indian time, Women's T20 World Cup is being organized in...
06:45 PM Oct 03, 2024 IST | Alka Singh

ICC Womens T20 WC: ICC Women's T20 World Cup has started and India has to play its first match in this tournament against New Zealand on October 4. According to Indian time, Women's T20 World Cup is being organized in UAE this time. All though Indian team looks fully prepared for this match.

Match will be played in Dubai

According to Indian time, this match will start at 7.30 pm and this match will be played in Dubai. While Indian women player’s looks fully prepared for this match. Though ICC Women's T20 World Cup match will be played under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur. Even though, Indian women's team has never won the World Cup title. This time to the challenge will not be easy.

ICC Womens T20 WC 2024

India is in Group A in this tournament and apart from India; there are teams of Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in this group. India has to face Pakistan on October 6, while this team will face Sri Lanka on the 9th. India has to play the last group match on October 13 in which it will face Australia.

India needs to be very careful against Australia

Even after India's group is quite tough, but former Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh has said, that India players needs to be more careful about. While Speaking to news agency, he said that India needs to be very careful against Australia. Even though the matches are in Dubai, Australia is a strong team, which is difficult to beat anywhere. After winning the series against India recently, Sri Lanka will also pose a big challenge. There are tough teams like New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in this group but Harbhajan believes that Australia will be India's biggest test.

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India won both warm-up matches

Before the World Cup started, the Indian women's team played two warm-up matches. Where Team India has won both the matches. Team India defeated the 2016 champion team West Indies in their first warm-up match.

Names of both teams for Women's T20 World Cup

India: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemima Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh, Yastika Bhatia, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Shobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sajna Sajeevan

New Zealand: Sophie Devine (captain), Suzie Bates, Eden Carson, Izzy Gaze, Maddie Green, Brooke Holiday, Fran Jonas, Leigh Kasperek, Mellie Kerr, Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Molly Penfold, Georgia Plimer, Hannah Rowe, Lee Tahuhu

 

 

 

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