Who: India vs New Zealand
What: ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup 2024 Group A match
When: Friday, October 4 at 6pm (14:00 GMT)
The place: Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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India will start their seek for a maiden ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup title after they face New Zealand in an important Group A match on Friday.
Harmanpreet Kaur’s group are positioned third, simply above their opponents, within the ICC ladies’s T20 worldwide rankings however will likely be cautious of the risk posed by an skilled facet led by Sophie Devine.
India’s head coach Amol Muzumdar believes his group head into the event with loads of self-belief and expertise.
“We have now had a incredible season main as much as the World Cup,” he instructed reporters on Thursday.
Muzumdar mentioned the group administration and captain have been engaged on discovering the right combination for the enjoying 11 forward of the primary match.
“We have now discovered the proper mixture that we’re going to play tomorrow,” he mentioned.
New Zealand captain Devine will hope that her group will have the ability to shake off the latest back-to-back sequence losses towards Australia and England.
Devine will maintain the important thing to New Zealand’s probabilities with the bat, however Suzie Bates and Amelia Kerr are additionally able to taking up the very best bowling assaults on the planet.
Positioned within the more durable of the 2 teams – together with holders Australia, Asian champions Sri Lanka, and the unpredictable Pakistan – each groups will look to get factors within the bag within the first sport.
Kind information: India
India’s final T20 worldwide outing resulted in a loss – and a expensive one – after they have been crushed by Sri Lanka within the ultimate of the Girls’s Asia Cup in July.
Previous to the ultimate, that they had received all their video games within the event in Dambulla, Sri Lanka.
Final 5 T20 outcomes: L W W W W
Kind information: New Zealand
New Zealand, too, enter the event on the again of a string of losses within the T20 format. They have been crushed 3-0 by the present champions Australia. Their tour of England led to a sequence loss as properly.
Final 5 T20 outcomes: L L L L L
India vs New Zealand: Head-to-head
The top-to-head file in T20 matches favours New Zealand, who’ve received 4 of their 5 conferences, together with the final one in February 2022.
India’s solely win got here on the T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia, the place the ladies in blue have been the dropping finalists.
India group information
India are a settled group and one which brims with expertise with the likes of Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Verma, Singh and Yadav.
Squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Yastika Bhatia (wicketkeeper), Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Sobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sajeevan Sajana
New Zealand group information
New Zealand will likely be assured that their skilled top-order batting lineup will deal with the risk posed by India’s robust bowling assault.
Squad: Sophie Devine (captain), Suzie Bates, Eden Carson, Isabella Gaze (wicketkeeper), Maddy Inexperienced, Brooke Halliday, Fran Jonas, Leigh Kasperek, Amelia Kerr, Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Molly Penfold, Georgia Plimmer, Hannah Rowe, Lea Tahuhu
Are tickets for the Girls’s T20 World Cup nonetheless accessible?
Sure. Tickets for the event went on sale on September 25 on the event’s web site. They will even be accessible at kiosks at each venues.
The ICC has introduced free entry for followers beneath the age of 18. The value for tickets ranges between 5 UAE dirhams ($1.36) and 550 dirhams ($150).
The way to watch the Girls’s T20 World Cup?
The ICC has allotted rights to varied broadcasting and on-line streaming retailers the world over.
