India Vs UAE Highlights, Women's Asia Cup: IND-W Beat UAE-W By 78 Runs In Dambulla

India Women: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Dayalan Hemalatha, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Renuka Thakur Singh, Uma Chetry, S Sajana, Arundhati Reddy, Asha Sobhana.

United Arab Emirates Women: Esha Rohit Oza (c), Theertha Satish (wk), Rinitha Rajith, Samaira Dharnidharka, Kavisha Egodage, Khushi Sharma, Heena Hotchandani, Vaishnave Mahesh, Rithika Rajith, Lavanya Keny, Indhuja Nandakumar, Mehak Thakur, Emily Thomas, Rishitha Rajith, Suraksha Kotte.

The two teams have faced off just once before in T20 internationals. That was during the previous edition of the Women's Asia Cup in 2022, and India had thrashed UAE by 104 runs in Sylhet.

IND-W will be without the services of Shreyanka Patil for the rest of the T20 Tournament.

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India's first game was against Pakistan and the reigning champions did not disappoint. They won emphatically (7-wicket win) and start off the campaign with a victory over their arch-rivals.

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India Women Squad: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Dayalan Hemalatha, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav, Tanuja Kanwar, Renuka Thakur Singh, Uma Chetry, S Sajana, Arundhati Reddy, Asha Sobhana

United Arab Emirates Women Squad: Esha Rohit Oza(c), Theertha Satish(w), Rinitha Rajith, Samaira Dharnidharka, Kavisha Egodage, Khushi Sharma, Heena Hotchandani, Vaishnave Mahesh, Rithika Rajith, Lavanya Keny, Indhuja Nandakumar, Mehak Thakur, Emily Thomas, Rishitha Rajith, Suraksha Kotte

United Arab Emirates Women have won the toss and have opted to field.

India Women (Playing XI): Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Dayalan Hemalatha, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav, Renuka Thakur Singh, Tanuja Kanwar

United Arab Emirates Women (Playing XI): Esha Rohit Oza(c), Theertha Satish(w), Rinitha Rajith, Samaira Dharnidharka, Kavisha Egodage, Khushi Sharma, Heena Hotchandani, Vaishnave Mahesh, Rithika Rajith, Lavanya Keny, Indhuja Nandakumar

Tanuja Kanwar, who is in the squad for the injured Shreyanka Patil, is making her debut today.

We wanted to bat only, happy with that. We'll just go with the flow and see how we start. Shreyanka is not playing, she got injured in the last game. In place of her, Tanuja is playing.

The action is underway in Dambulla as IND-W openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma eyed a fast start. However, Mandhana lost focus was dismissed by Kavisha Egodage in the third over.

IND-W lost Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma despite posting 50 runs on the board inside the power play. Mandhana fell in the third over whereas Shafali was dismissed in the sixth over.

Score after 5 overs

INDW - 52/2

Jemimah Rodrigues and skipper Harmanpreet Kaur have put on a 35-run stand for the fourth-wicket as they have begun the rebuilding job.

Score after 10 overs

INDW - 87/3

After an impressive start by UAE-W, it seems the inexperience has creeped in as things have gone downhill. IND-W have a run-rate of 9.53 and are eyeing 200 with five overs to go.

Score after 15 overs

INDW - 143/4

Richa Ghosh's 29-ball 60 and Harmanpreet Kaur's 66 has given India Women their highest score in T20Is. Ghosh also slammed her maiden T20I fifty in the process. India have added 58 runs in the last five overs. UAE-W will have to beat the odds to go close to that score.

Score after 20 overs

INDW - 201/5

Chasing 202 isn't an easy task and UAE-W seems to have felt the heat as they lost the wicket of Theertha Satish in this phase. United Arab Emirates Women need 179 runs in 90 balls and have nine wickets in hand.

After 5 Overs

UAEW - 24/1 (5)

INDW - 201/5 (20)

Do You Know - UAE-W skipper Esha Oza and IND-W's Jemimah Rodrigues were part of the Mumbai Cricket Association's Team Of The Year 2021-22.

The UAE-W side, led by their skipper Esha Rohit Oza, have been fought back despite three down. Esha has scored 35 runs so far as they need 135 runs in 60 balls.

After 10 Overs

UAEW - 67/3 (10)

INDW - 201/5 (20)

United Arab Emirates Women need 108 runs in 30 balls and lost the wicket of Esha Oza in the previous phase. IND-W are the favourites here but the associate nation would want to end on a high and post some damage to the India women bowlers.

After 15 Overs

UAEW - 94/4 (15)

INDW - 201/5 (20)

A huge win for the Women In Blue as they registered a 78-run win against UAE-W. Earlier, India had posted a mammoth total of 201, their first in T20Is, in 20 overs.

IND-W 201/5 (20)

UAE-W 123/7 (20)

It was a great experience. Lot of learnings. From the Indian innings, we saw how to build an innings. And also saw how to finish. Using this as an experience to help us learn that. You're never satisfied when you're playing such an opposition because the batting runs deep (talking about the early wickets). Three wickets is a great start but you need to take all 10. We put up a better score against a better side - that means we learnt from our mistakes.

Really happy. When I'm playing with Harry di, she guides me about how the ball is coming on. When the opportunity comes to me, I want to just deliver what I know and what I'm practicing. First four from the cover drive was the favourite moment. Yeah I'm feeling good (recovery from concussion).

Another match is in store with Nepal in action against Pakistan. Till then, it's goodbye from us.