All-round Dar helps Pakistan sink India

Nida Dar delivered the star turn with both bat and ball as Pakistan pipped India for just the third time in a WT20I experience. The veteran struck 56* off 37 to drive her side to serious areas of strength for a 137 for 6. She then trapped the enormous wickets of Jemimah Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur to drive her side to a 13-run win.

It was a inspired circle back from Pakistan, who just yesterday had been outperformed by Thailand. Here as well, they had to dig themselves out of a hole after being reduced to 33/3 in the PowerPlay after electing to bat. They had the experienced heads of Dar and Bismah Maroof to call upon and the pair stitched an impressive 76-run stand with Dar playing the aggressor. She hit five fours and a six in her knock and despite not getting the flourish Pakistan required at the death, they got to a score they could work with.

After an energetic beginning, Sabbhineni Meghana's attempts to hit Nashra Sandhu out of the attack backfired. Rodrigues then endure two respites yet at the same time fell for 2. Sandhu then excused Smriti Mandhana to leave India in an opening at 50/3. Inquisitively, the returning captain Harmanpreet Kaur selected to downgrade herself down the order, a move that didn't chip away at the day as Dayalan Hemalatha, Pooja Vastrakar and Deepti Sharma became victims of a developing required rate and a smothering showcase of spin bowling.

When Kaur fell with 47 still to get, the issue at hand was obvious to everyone. Yet, Richa Ghosh, who needed to go off the field in the first innings because of an intensity stroke, kept the flashing fire buzzing with three sixes and a four in a 13-ball thump of 26. She brought the condition down to 18 off 10 preceding completing second best in one more attempt to clear the field. Pakistan frolicked home to victory from that point.

Brief scores: Pakistan 137/6 in 20 overs (Nida Dar 56*, Bismah Maroof 32; Deepti Sharma 3-27) beat India 124 in 19.4 overs (Richa Ghosh 26; Nashra Sandhu 3-30, Nida Dar 2-23) by 13 runs.

Thailand versus UAE

Thailand supported up their big win over Pakistan with a certain loss of UAE to remain in the race for a semi-final berth. Sent into bat, Thailand made an under-standard 108 yet delivered an incredible bowling to walk home with a 19-run victory.

Thailand started gradually and lost their openers efficiently before captain Naruemol Chaiwai and previous captain Sornnarin Tippoch added a consistent 45-run stand. Rosenan Kanoh then hit a quickfire 19* as Thailand added 31 runs in the last four overs to move pass 100.

UAE made a meal of what was a chaseable score with their openers Esha Oza and Kavisha Egodage batting very circumspectly. Oza made 3 off 16 and Egodage top-scored with 29 however consumed 41 balls doing as such. This thus left the middle order having the pace and they capitulated in the process. Thipatcha Putthawong and Onnicha Kamchomphu picked two wickets each as UAE finished on 89.

Brief scores:Thailand Women 108/4 in 20 overs (Naruemol Chaiwai 39*, Rosenan Kanoh 19*; Khushi Sharma 1-11) beat UAE Ladies 89/8 in 20 overs (Kavisha Egodage 29; Thipatcha Putthawong 2-12) by 19 runs

All-round Dar helps Pakistan sink India