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Women's T20 Asia Cup: Shafali Verma praises spin bowlers after 94-run win over Thailand
Samira Vishwas | August 31, 2026 5:24 PM CST

game desk : In the Women's T20 Asia Cup, the Indian women's cricket team performed brilliantly and defeated Thailand by a huge margin of 94 runs in the Group A match played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Batting first in this match, India scored 159 runs at the loss of 9 matches in the stipulated overs, in response to which the entire Thailand team got bundled out for only 65 runs in 16.1 overs. The dominance of spin bowlers was seen in this spectacular victory of the Indian team.

Speaking in the press conference after the match, Indian opener Shafali Verma praised the team's spin bowling unit. Shefali said that the team is getting a lot of benefit in turning conditions due to the presence of experienced players like Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana and Radha Yadav. He especially praised the performance of Deepti Sharma, who took a historic 3 wickets for 3 runs in her spell. With this, Deepti has become the first Indian bowler to take three or more wickets without giving any runs in women's T20I cricket.

Earlier, India had a good start in batting, where Shefali Verma herself batted brilliantly and played an explosive inning of 64 runs with the help of 8 fours and 3 sixes in 36 balls. However, in the middle overs, Thailand's spinners put pressure on India and took wickets quickly, on which Shefali admitted that the team will work on improving this approach. In bowling, Nandini Sharma performed well by registering figures of 3/18 and Shri Charani 2/10. Nannapat Koncharonkai scored the highest 41 runs for Thailand, but she could not save the team from defeat. The next match of the Indian women's team will now be against Hong Kong on 3 September.

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