Live Score, Australia vs India, ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020: Jemimah Dismissed by Kimmince
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WICKET! Australia break through and the young Jemimah is trapped lbw by Kimmince for 26. Bad time for India to lose a wicket. India are 100/4.
14:18 (IST)
Four! After a while India have found the fence and Deepti Sharma will be relieved. She swept Ashleigh Gardener hard through square leg. Good effort in the field but the shot had too much power.
14:02 (IST)
WICKET! Australia have the big fish as Harmanpreet has been stumped by Alyssa Healy. She swung and missed and Healy's shins helped complete the stumping. Three quick wickets for Australia and two for Jonassen.
13:56 (IST)
WICKET! Perry has struck and removed the dangerous Verma who looked to pull over midwicket but Sutherland holds onto the catch. Verma who made a good start has been dismissed for 29. Australia are over the moon!
13:47 (IST)
WICKET! Jess Jonassen has struck for Australia! Mandhana looking leg side is trapped lbw for 10. India lose their first wicket and are 41/1.
13:45 (IST)
Four! Shafali has really gone through the gears early on! Schutt with a good leg cutter that Verma has just caressed through the covers for a boundary! That shot will take some beating in this tournament.
13:44 (IST)
Four & Four! Megan Schutt bowls full to Verma and she has been crisply driven away to the fence before a short one outside off stump is ferociously cut away through the gap between point and backward point for two consecutive boundaries.
13:41 (IST)
SIX! Shafali has cranked it up a notch! Takes a step out of the crease before smashing Strano over mid-off for the first maximum of the game. What a hit from the 16 year old.
13:40 (IST)
Four! Now Shafali Verma joins the party! Full from Strano and the 16-year-old has played her inside out over extra cover. Smashing shot from the right hander.
13:39 (IST)
Four! Perry changes the angle and comes around the wicket to Mandhana but the southpaw steps out and lofts it over the bowler for the second boundary of the over. Mandhana sets India off after being given a chance. India are 11/0 after 2 overs.
13:37 (IST)
Four! Mandhana making Australia pay early on after the dropped catch. Short from Perry and she has hoicked it away through long on for a boundary, the first of the World Cup.
13:35 (IST)
CHANCE! Mandhana pulls Perry of the third ball of the second over, but Strano at mid wicket is unable to hold on.
13:29 (IST)
Both the teams are out on the field and the anthems are also over. We are minutes away from the start of the first game of the T20 World Cup. India will open the batting with Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma. Here we go!
13:10 (IST)
Australia's Playing XI today: Alyssa Healy(w), Beth Mooney, Ashleigh Gardner, Meg Lanning(c), Ellyse Perry, Rachael Haynes, Annabel Sutherland, Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Molly Strano, Megan Schutt
13:09 (IST)
India's Playing XI today: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Deepti Sharma, Veda Krishnamurthy, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia(w), Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad
14:37 (IST)
WICKET! Australia break through and the young Jemimah is trapped lbw by Kimmince for 26. Bad time for India to lose a wicket. India are 100/4.
14:18 (IST)
Four! After a while India have found the fence and Deepti Sharma will be relieved. She swept Ashleigh Gardener hard through square leg. Good effort in the field but the shot had too much power.
14:02 (IST)
WICKET! Australia have the big fish as Harmanpreet has been stumped by Alyssa Healy. She swung and missed and Healy's shins helped complete the stumping. Three quick wickets for Australia and two for Jonassen.
13:56 (IST)
WICKET! Perry has struck and removed the dangerous Verma who looked to pull over midwicket but Sutherland holds onto the catch. Verma who made a good start has been dismissed for 29. Australia are over the moon!
13:47 (IST)
WICKET! Jess Jonassen has struck for Australia! Mandhana looking leg side is trapped lbw for 10. India lose their first wicket and are 41/1.
13:45 (IST)
Four! Shafali has really gone through the gears early on! Schutt with a good leg cutter that Verma has just caressed through the covers for a boundary! That shot will take some beating in this tournament.
13:44 (IST)
Four & Four! Megan Schutt bowls full to Verma and she has been crisply driven away to the fence before a short one outside off stump is ferociously cut away through the gap between point and backward point for two consecutive boundaries.
13:41 (IST)
SIX! Shafali has cranked it up a notch! Takes a step out of the crease before smashing Strano over mid-off for the first maximum of the game. What a hit from the 16 year old.
13:40 (IST)
Four! Now Shafali Verma joins the party! Full from Strano and the 16-year-old has played her inside out over extra cover. Smashing shot from the right hander.
13:39 (IST)
Four! Perry changes the angle and comes around the wicket to Mandhana but the southpaw steps out and lofts it over the bowler for the second boundary of the over. Mandhana sets India off after being given a chance. India are 11/0 after 2 overs.
13:37 (IST)
Four! Mandhana making Australia pay early on after the dropped catch. Short from Perry and she has hoicked it away through long on for a boundary, the first of the World Cup.
13:35 (IST)
CHANCE! Mandhana pulls Perry of the third ball of the second over, but Strano at mid wicket is unable to hold on.
13:29 (IST)
Both the teams are out on the field and the anthems are also over. We are minutes away from the start of the first game of the T20 World Cup. India will open the batting with Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma. Here we go!
13:10 (IST)
Australia's Playing XI today: Alyssa Healy(w), Beth Mooney, Ashleigh Gardner, Meg Lanning(c), Ellyse Perry, Rachael Haynes, Annabel Sutherland, Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Molly Strano, Megan Schutt
13:09 (IST)
India's Playing XI today: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Deepti Sharma, Veda Krishnamurthy, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia(w), Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad
14:37 (IST)
WICKET! Australia break through and the young Jemimah is trapped lbw by Kimmince for 26. Bad time for India to lose a wicket. India are 100/4.
14:33 (IST)
Deepti and Jemimah finding the singles easily now and have once again ensured they score from all the deliveries. Six runs from Gardner's third over. India are 95/3 after 15 overs.
14:29 (IST)
Seven runs from Schutt's third over for India. Jemimah and Deepti have moved on to 21 each and steadied the ship after the early loss of wickets. India are 89/3 after 14 overs.
14:25 (IST)
Gardner hustles through another over with Jemimah and Deepti playing the over out cautiously. Six singles for India takes the score to 82/3 after 13 overs.
14:23 (IST)
Another 6 runs from the over for India as Jemimah and Deepti continue to rebuild. India are 76/3 after 12 overs.
14:19 (IST)
Seven runs from the Gardner over for India with a boundary to boot for Deepti. Jemimah playing second fiddle and happy to give strike to her partner. India are 70/3 after 11 overs.
14:18 (IST)
Four! After a while India have found the fence and Deepti Sharma will be relieved. She swept Ashleigh Gardener hard through square leg. Good effort in the field but the shot had too much power.
14:15 (IST)
Another 6 run over for India as Jemimah and Deepti keep knocking it around for the runs. Only one dot ball of that over. India after 10 overs are 63/3.
14:11 (IST)
Megan Schutt comes back into the attack and Jemimah and Deepti have managed to score of all the deliveries of that over. Six singles for the Indian duo as the rebuild starts. India are 57/3 after 9 overs.
14:07 (IST)
Perry hustles through her third over as Australia continue to tighten the screws around India. Deepti Sharma plays most of the over and picks up a single before Jemimah adds another single to take India to 51/3 after 8 overs.
Australia have fought back and are now in the driver's seat here in Sydney. Three quick wickets has really pegged India back. After 7 overs India are 49/3 and in trouble.
14:02 (IST)
WICKET! Australia have the big fish as Harmanpreet has been stumped by Alyssa Healy. She swung and missed and Healy's shins helped complete the stumping. Three quick wickets for Australia and two for Jonassen.
13:59 (IST)
Six overs down and India are 46/2 with the momentum now having shifted in the favour of the hosts. Perry's second over went for just 4 runs and was a fantastic one for the Australians as she removed Verma too. Harmanpreet and Jemimah now in the middle have their task cut out from here on in.
13:56 (IST)
WICKET! Perry has struck and removed the dangerous Verma who looked to pull over midwicket but Sutherland holds onto the catch. Verma who made a good start has been dismissed for 29. Australia are over the moon!
13:50 (IST)
Australia bounce back in the fifth over with Jonassen as she keeps things quiet and gets the important wicket of Smriti Mandhana. India are 42/1 after 5 overs.
13:47 (IST)
WICKET! Jess Jonassen has struck for Australia! Mandhana looking leg side is trapped lbw for 10. India lose their first wicket and are 41/1.
13:47 (IST)
Huge over for India as Verma takes on Schutt and does well to score four absolutely well stroked boundaries. Brute force, placement and timing were all there in that over from Verma. India are 40/0 after 4 overs.
13:45 (IST)
Four! Shafali has really gone through the gears early on! Schutt with a good leg cutter that Verma has just caressed through the covers for a boundary! That shot will take some beating in this tournament.
13:44 (IST)
Four & Four! Megan Schutt bowls full to Verma and she has been crisply driven away to the fence before a short one outside off stump is ferociously cut away through the gap between point and backward point for two consecutive boundaries.
13:42 (IST)
Superb third over for India as Strano is taken to the cleaners by Shafali. 13 runs from the over with only one dot ball for Australia. The dropped catch of Mandhana will hurt a lot more with these kind of overs. India are 24/0 after 3 overs.
13:41 (IST)
SIX! Shafali has cranked it up a notch! Takes a step out of the crease before smashing Strano over mid-off for the first maximum of the game. What a hit from the 16 year old.
13:40 (IST)
Four! Now Shafali Verma joins the party! Full from Strano and the 16-year-old has played her inside out over extra cover. Smashing shot from the right hander.
13:39 (IST)
Four! Perry changes the angle and comes around the wicket to Mandhana but the southpaw steps out and lofts it over the bowler for the second boundary of the over. Mandhana sets India off after being given a chance. India are 11/0 after 2 overs.
13:37 (IST)
Four! Mandhana making Australia pay early on after the dropped catch. Short from Perry and she has hoicked it away through long on for a boundary, the first of the World Cup.
13:35 (IST)
CHANCE! Mandhana pulls Perry of the third ball of the second over, but Strano at mid wicket is unable to hold on.
13:34 (IST)
Fantastic start for the Australians with the ball as Molly Strano, who was drafted in last minute, concedes just the two singles to Mandhana and Verma. India are 2/0 after the first over.
13:29 (IST)
Both the teams are out on the field and the anthems are also over. We are minutes away from the start of the first game of the T20 World Cup. India will open the batting with Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma. Here we go!
13:10 (IST)
Australia's Playing XI today: Alyssa Healy(w), Beth Mooney, Ashleigh Gardner, Meg Lanning(c), Ellyse Perry, Rachael Haynes, Annabel Sutherland, Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Molly Strano, Megan Schutt
13:09 (IST)
India's Playing XI today: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Deepti Sharma, Veda Krishnamurthy, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia(w), Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad
LATEST UPDATE:WICKET! Australia break through and the young Jemimah is trapped lbw by Kimmince for 26. Bad time for India to lose a wicket. India are 100/4.
PREVIEW: The Indian women's cricket team will be aiming for much needed consistency when it opens its bid for an elusive ICC trophy with the T20 World Cup opener against defending champions Australia here on Friday.
Inconsistency has plagued India for a long time and a classic example was their performance in the recently held tri-series in Australia where they reached the final.
They won and lost a game against the more accomplished England and Australia before losing to the mighty hosts, who have won the T20 World Cup a record four times out of the six editions held so far.
India's middle and lower-order needs to do a lot better than what it has been doing to beat the likes of Australia and England in the knock-out stages, something that has been been acknowledged star opener Smriti Mandhana.
The team needs to ensure that the frequent middle-order collapses are not repeated in the showpiece event.
The southpaw and 16-year-old Shafali Verma will have to get India off to a flying start more often than not in the competition.
Expectations are high from skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, who too has suffered from inconsistency and would like to correct that, beginning with the opener against Australia.
It remains to be seen if the other 16-year-old in the squad, Richa Ghosh, gets to play regularly as she made her international debut only in the final of the tri-series.
In the bowling department, they have heavily relied on spinners with not many quality pacers to choose from.
Shikha Pandey, who is often the lone pacer in the playing eleven full of spinners, has the crucial task of providing early breakthroughs.
"As an opening bowler, I'm obviously thinking about the early breakthroughs and that doesn't change, said Pandey, India's fifth-highest wicket-taker in T20s.
"In the first six, we are trying to take wickets and then it's about containing the batters before coming back and bowling the best you can in the death overs.
"I would say 150 is now a par score in a T20 game, so the first six overs batters actually get a lot of freedom and try to hit as many runs as possible," she added.
The squad is expected to reach the last four as it had two years ago but the growing women's game in India will get a further fillip only if they go all the way.
Long gone are the days when women cricketers were a neglected lot and have all the facilities at their disposal.
Head coach W V Raman thinks his team is one of the title favourites.
"Since (2018 World T20) then there has been a lot of improvement, in terms of fitness, agility on the field and their approach to batting," Raman was quoted as saying in ESPNcricinfo.
They take on Australia, who could not have asked for a better build-up to the tournament than winning the preceding tri-series.
However, they suffered a big blow on the eve of the tournament opener as their lead pacer Tayla Vlaeminck, who had troubled the Indian batters in the tri-series with extra pace, was ruled out of the competition due to a foot injury. Off-spinner Molly Strano was named her replacement.
"There's no one quite the same as Tayla so we will have to slightly tweak how we are going to go about it," said captain Meg Lanning.
"But generally our plans are pretty flexible anyway, so we don't feel like it's going to be too much of a disadvantage," she added.
Live Score, Australia vs India, ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020: Jemimah Dismissed by Kimmince
India Women vs Australia Women 1st T20 live score and latest Update of ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 match at News18.com that includes ball by ball commentary, latest cricket score and many more.
India Women vs Australia Women (T20)
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INDW vs AUSW Cricket Scorecard (T20)
Match 1, Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, 21 February, 2020
India Women
111/4
(16.4) RR 6.66
Australia Women
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HIGHLIGHTS
WICKET! Australia break through and the young Jemimah is trapped lbw by Kimmince for 26. Bad time for India to lose a wicket. India are 100/4.
Four! After a while India have found the fence and Deepti Sharma will be relieved. She swept Ashleigh Gardener hard through square leg. Good effort in the field but the shot had too much power.
WICKET! Australia have the big fish as Harmanpreet has been stumped by Alyssa Healy. She swung and missed and Healy's shins helped complete the stumping. Three quick wickets for Australia and two for Jonassen.
WICKET! Perry has struck and removed the dangerous Verma who looked to pull over midwicket but Sutherland holds onto the catch. Verma who made a good start has been dismissed for 29. Australia are over the moon!
WICKET! Jess Jonassen has struck for Australia! Mandhana looking leg side is trapped lbw for 10. India lose their first wicket and are 41/1.
Four! Shafali has really gone through the gears early on! Schutt with a good leg cutter that Verma has just caressed through the covers for a boundary! That shot will take some beating in this tournament.
Four & Four! Megan Schutt bowls full to Verma and she has been crisply driven away to the fence before a short one outside off stump is ferociously cut away through the gap between point and backward point for two consecutive boundaries.
SIX! Shafali has cranked it up a notch! Takes a step out of the crease before smashing Strano over mid-off for the first maximum of the game. What a hit from the 16 year old.
Four! Now Shafali Verma joins the party! Full from Strano and the 16-year-old has played her inside out over extra cover. Smashing shot from the right hander.
Four! Perry changes the angle and comes around the wicket to Mandhana but the southpaw steps out and lofts it over the bowler for the second boundary of the over. Mandhana sets India off after being given a chance. India are 11/0 after 2 overs.
Four! Mandhana making Australia pay early on after the dropped catch. Short from Perry and she has hoicked it away through long on for a boundary, the first of the World Cup.
CHANCE! Mandhana pulls Perry of the third ball of the second over, but Strano at mid wicket is unable to hold on.
Both the teams are out on the field and the anthems are also over. We are minutes away from the start of the first game of the T20 World Cup. India will open the batting with Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma. Here we go!
Australia's Playing XI today: Alyssa Healy(w), Beth Mooney, Ashleigh Gardner, Meg Lanning(c), Ellyse Perry, Rachael Haynes, Annabel Sutherland, Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Molly Strano, Megan Schutt
India's Playing XI today: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Deepti Sharma, Veda Krishnamurthy, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia(w), Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad
14:37 (IST)
WICKET! Australia break through and the young Jemimah is trapped lbw by Kimmince for 26. Bad time for India to lose a wicket. India are 100/4.
14:33 (IST)
Deepti and Jemimah finding the singles easily now and have once again ensured they score from all the deliveries. Six runs from Gardner's third over. India are 95/3 after 15 overs.
14:29 (IST)
Seven runs from Schutt's third over for India. Jemimah and Deepti have moved on to 21 each and steadied the ship after the early loss of wickets. India are 89/3 after 14 overs.
14:25 (IST)
Gardner hustles through another over with Jemimah and Deepti playing the over out cautiously. Six singles for India takes the score to 82/3 after 13 overs.
14:23 (IST)
Another 6 runs from the over for India as Jemimah and Deepti continue to rebuild. India are 76/3 after 12 overs.
14:19 (IST)
Seven runs from the Gardner over for India with a boundary to boot for Deepti. Jemimah playing second fiddle and happy to give strike to her partner. India are 70/3 after 11 overs.
14:18 (IST)
Four! After a while India have found the fence and Deepti Sharma will be relieved. She swept Ashleigh Gardener hard through square leg. Good effort in the field but the shot had too much power.
14:15 (IST)
Another 6 run over for India as Jemimah and Deepti keep knocking it around for the runs. Only one dot ball of that over. India after 10 overs are 63/3.
14:11 (IST)
Megan Schutt comes back into the attack and Jemimah and Deepti have managed to score of all the deliveries of that over. Six singles for the Indian duo as the rebuild starts. India are 57/3 after 9 overs.
14:07 (IST)
Perry hustles through her third over as Australia continue to tighten the screws around India. Deepti Sharma plays most of the over and picks up a single before Jemimah adds another single to take India to 51/3 after 8 overs.
14:06 (IST)
Superb fight back!14:04 (IST)
Australia have fought back and are now in the driver's seat here in Sydney. Three quick wickets has really pegged India back. After 7 overs India are 49/3 and in trouble.
14:02 (IST)
WICKET! Australia have the big fish as Harmanpreet has been stumped by Alyssa Healy. She swung and missed and Healy's shins helped complete the stumping. Three quick wickets for Australia and two for Jonassen.
13:59 (IST)
Six overs down and India are 46/2 with the momentum now having shifted in the favour of the hosts. Perry's second over went for just 4 runs and was a fantastic one for the Australians as she removed Verma too. Harmanpreet and Jemimah now in the middle have their task cut out from here on in.
13:56 (IST)
WICKET! Perry has struck and removed the dangerous Verma who looked to pull over midwicket but Sutherland holds onto the catch. Verma who made a good start has been dismissed for 29. Australia are over the moon!
13:50 (IST)
Australia bounce back in the fifth over with Jonassen as she keeps things quiet and gets the important wicket of Smriti Mandhana. India are 42/1 after 5 overs.
13:47 (IST)
WICKET! Jess Jonassen has struck for Australia! Mandhana looking leg side is trapped lbw for 10. India lose their first wicket and are 41/1.
13:47 (IST)
Huge over for India as Verma takes on Schutt and does well to score four absolutely well stroked boundaries. Brute force, placement and timing were all there in that over from Verma. India are 40/0 after 4 overs.
13:45 (IST)
Four! Shafali has really gone through the gears early on! Schutt with a good leg cutter that Verma has just caressed through the covers for a boundary! That shot will take some beating in this tournament.
13:44 (IST)
Four & Four! Megan Schutt bowls full to Verma and she has been crisply driven away to the fence before a short one outside off stump is ferociously cut away through the gap between point and backward point for two consecutive boundaries.
13:42 (IST)
Superb third over for India as Strano is taken to the cleaners by Shafali. 13 runs from the over with only one dot ball for Australia. The dropped catch of Mandhana will hurt a lot more with these kind of overs. India are 24/0 after 3 overs.
13:41 (IST)
SIX! Shafali has cranked it up a notch! Takes a step out of the crease before smashing Strano over mid-off for the first maximum of the game. What a hit from the 16 year old.
13:40 (IST)
Four! Now Shafali Verma joins the party! Full from Strano and the 16-year-old has played her inside out over extra cover. Smashing shot from the right hander.
13:39 (IST)
Four! Perry changes the angle and comes around the wicket to Mandhana but the southpaw steps out and lofts it over the bowler for the second boundary of the over. Mandhana sets India off after being given a chance. India are 11/0 after 2 overs.
13:37 (IST)
Four! Mandhana making Australia pay early on after the dropped catch. Short from Perry and she has hoicked it away through long on for a boundary, the first of the World Cup.
13:35 (IST)
CHANCE! Mandhana pulls Perry of the third ball of the second over, but Strano at mid wicket is unable to hold on.
13:34 (IST)
Fantastic start for the Australians with the ball as Molly Strano, who was drafted in last minute, concedes just the two singles to Mandhana and Verma. India are 2/0 after the first over.
13:29 (IST)
Both the teams are out on the field and the anthems are also over. We are minutes away from the start of the first game of the T20 World Cup. India will open the batting with Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma. Here we go!
13:10 (IST)
Australia's Playing XI today: Alyssa Healy(w), Beth Mooney, Ashleigh Gardner, Meg Lanning(c), Ellyse Perry, Rachael Haynes, Annabel Sutherland, Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Molly Strano, Megan Schutt
13:09 (IST)
India's Playing XI today: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Deepti Sharma, Veda Krishnamurthy, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia(w), Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad
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LATEST UPDATE:WICKET! Australia break through and the young Jemimah is trapped lbw by Kimmince for 26. Bad time for India to lose a wicket. India are 100/4.
PREVIEW: The Indian women's cricket team will be aiming for much needed consistency when it opens its bid for an elusive ICC trophy with the T20 World Cup opener against defending champions Australia here on Friday.
Inconsistency has plagued India for a long time and a classic example was their performance in the recently held tri-series in Australia where they reached the final.
They won and lost a game against the more accomplished England and Australia before losing to the mighty hosts, who have won the T20 World Cup a record four times out of the six editions held so far.
India's middle and lower-order needs to do a lot better than what it has been doing to beat the likes of Australia and England in the knock-out stages, something that has been been acknowledged star opener Smriti Mandhana.
The team needs to ensure that the frequent middle-order collapses are not repeated in the showpiece event.
The southpaw and 16-year-old Shafali Verma will have to get India off to a flying start more often than not in the competition.
Expectations are high from skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, who too has suffered from inconsistency and would like to correct that, beginning with the opener against Australia.
It remains to be seen if the other 16-year-old in the squad, Richa Ghosh, gets to play regularly as she made her international debut only in the final of the tri-series.
In the bowling department, they have heavily relied on spinners with not many quality pacers to choose from.
Shikha Pandey, who is often the lone pacer in the playing eleven full of spinners, has the crucial task of providing early breakthroughs.
"As an opening bowler, I'm obviously thinking about the early breakthroughs and that doesn't change, said Pandey, India's fifth-highest wicket-taker in T20s.
"In the first six, we are trying to take wickets and then it's about containing the batters before coming back and bowling the best you can in the death overs.
"I would say 150 is now a par score in a T20 game, so the first six overs batters actually get a lot of freedom and try to hit as many runs as possible," she added.
The squad is expected to reach the last four as it had two years ago but the growing women's game in India will get a further fillip only if they go all the way.
Long gone are the days when women cricketers were a neglected lot and have all the facilities at their disposal.
Head coach W V Raman thinks his team is one of the title favourites.
"Since (2018 World T20) then there has been a lot of improvement, in terms of fitness, agility on the field and their approach to batting," Raman was quoted as saying in ESPNcricinfo.
They take on Australia, who could not have asked for a better build-up to the tournament than winning the preceding tri-series.
However, they suffered a big blow on the eve of the tournament opener as their lead pacer Tayla Vlaeminck, who had troubled the Indian batters in the tri-series with extra pace, was ruled out of the competition due to a foot injury. Off-spinner Molly Strano was named her replacement.
"There's no one quite the same as Tayla so we will have to slightly tweak how we are going to go about it," said captain Meg Lanning.
"But generally our plans are pretty flexible anyway, so we don't feel like it's going to be too much of a disadvantage," she added.
Squads:
Australia: Erin Burns, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Rachael Haynes (vice-capt), Alyssa Healy (wk), Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Meg Lanning (capt), Sophie Molineux, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Tayla Vlaeminck, Georgia Wareham.
India: Taniya Bhatia (wk), Harleen Deol, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Richa Ghosh, Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Veda Krishnamurthy, Smriti Mandhana, Shikha Pandey, Arundhati Reddy, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Shafali Verma, Poonam Yadav, Radha Yadav.
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