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Team India has started the Women’s Asia Cup 2026 with a resounding victory. The Indian team defeated Thailand by 94 runs in its first match of the tournament. Deepti Sharma played an important role with the ball in the team’s victory at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

Deepti bowled brilliantly and took 3 wickets in 1.1 overs without giving any runs. With three wickets, Deepti has now become the highest wicket-taker in T20 International cricket. Deepti has taken 171 wickets in the shortest format of cricket. In this matter, he has left behind Thai bowler Thipacha Puthavong, who has 170 wickets in T20 International. In this list, Rwandan bowler Henriette Ishimwe is at third position with 164 wickets.

Along with this, Deepti has also become the bowler who bowled the best spell for India in T20 International by taking three or more wickets. Deepti took 3 wickets without giving any runs. In this matter, he left behind Renuka Singh, who had taken 3 wickets for 5 runs in 2022. Batting first in the match, the Indian team, despite a good start, could score only 159 runs on the scoreboard after losing 9 wickets. Shefali Verma scored the highest score of 64 runs for the team, while Pratika Rawal contributed 22 runs. Smriti Mandhana was run out after scoring 19 runs.

However, captain Hamanpreet Kaur (5 runs) and Bharti Fulmali (13 runs) could not show anything special with the bat. Whereas, Richa Ghosh returned to the pavilion without opening the account. Deepti Sharma could also score only 5 runs. However, while chasing the target of 160 runs, the entire Thailand team was all out after scoring just 65 runs. Apart from Deepti, Nandini Sharma took 3 wickets for 18 runs, while Shri Charani took 2 wickets.