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IND W vs THA W : The Indian cricket team has made a great start in the Women's Asia Cup 2026. Indian women's cricket team has defeated Thailand's women's cricket team by a huge margin of 94 runs in its very first match of the tournament. With this, the Indian cricket team under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur has started its victory after losing the toss. In this match, Shefali Verma created a stir with the bat for India. He played a stormy half-century innings with the bat.

in this match Thailand captain Naruemol Chaiwai chose to toss and bowl first. Along with this, he invited Indian women's cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur to bat first. In this match, India, batting first, scored 159 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. Chasing this target, Thailand collapsed to 65 runs after losing 10 wickets in 16.1 overs and lost the match by a huge margin of 94 runs.

Deepti and Nandani spread the magic with the ball

Indian bowlers bundled out the entire Thai team for 65 runs. Deepti Sharma took 3 wickets for India. While Nandani Sharma also got 3 wickets, Shri Charani got 2 wickets and Kranti Gaur got 1 wicket. Only Nannapat Koncharoenkai played a fighting inning of 41 runs for the team. Apart from him, no other batsman of the team could score more than 6 runs.

How was Team India's innings?

In this match, Shefali Verma and Smriti Mandhana came to start the innings for India. The first blow to the team came in the form of Mandhana, she was run out after scoring 19 runs with 4 fours in 10 balls. After that, India got the second blow from Pratika Rawal. Raval played an inning of 22 runs in 18 balls with 2 fours and 1 six with a strike rate of 122.22. He was dismissed by Suliporn Laomi. After this, captain Harmanpreet Kaur became the second victim of Laomi on a personal score of 5 runs.

Shefali Verma played a brilliant innings

Shefali Verma played a brilliant half-century innings for Team India in this match. Shefali completed her half-century by scoring 50 runs in 26 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes. After this, Shefali played an inning of 64 runs in 36 balls with 8 fours and 3 sixes. During this innings, Shefali Verma's strike rate was 177.77.

Apart from them, India's wicketkeeper batsman and big hitter Richa Ghosh returned to the pavilion with a personal score of 0. For the team, Indian Phoolmali played an inning of 20 runs and Deepti Sharma played an inning of 5 runs in her 150th international match. Kranti Gaur contributed 15 runs for the team.

These batsmen of Team India returned to the pavilion cheaply

Whereas Suliporn Laomi took the most wickets for Thailand. He dismissed three Indian batsmen, which included the wickets of Shefali Verma, Pratika Rawal and Richa Ghosh. Captain Thipatcha Puthavong also took 1 wicket. Sunida Chaturongaratana also took 2 wickets.

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