NZ vs PAK Women: Women’s T20 World cup, NZ vs PAK: New Zealand has made it to the semi-finals of the Women’s T20 World Cup by defeating Pakistan. With this, the journey of the Indian women’s team also ended, which finished third in Group-A. Apart from New Zealand, Australia entered the last four from this group.
NZ vs PAK Women: India’s journey in T20 World Cup:
New Zealand made it to the semi-finals by defeating Pakistan by 54 runs in the Group A match of the Women’s T20 World Cup. In this way, along with Pakistan, India’s journey also ended in the group stage of this tournament. After winning the toss and opting to bat, New Zealand scored 110 runs for six wickets in 20 overs.In reply, Pakistan’s entire team was reduced to 56 runs in 11.4 overs. Like India and New Zealand, Pakistan was also in the race to make it to the next round. If Pakistan team had achieved the target of 111 runs in 10.4 overs, they could have made it to the semi-finals, but the team lost the match.
New Zealand team reached semi-finals for the first time since 2016
This match was very important for India. Pakistan’s victory could have taken India to the semi-finals. From Group A, Australia had already reached the semi-finals by winning all four matches, while there was a contest between New Zealand, India and Pakistan for the second place.
India had four points from two matches with two wins and two losses and before this match their net run rate was better than New Zealand. If New Zealand had lost this match, it would have had four points along with Pakistan and India and the second semi-finalist would have been decided on the basis of net run rate.
India would have entered the last four due to better net run rate. However, New Zealand defeated Pakistan, giving them six points from four matches with three wins and one loss and entering the last four. This is the first time since 2016 that the New Zealand team has made it to the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup.
Pakistan’s bad batting
Chasing the target against New Zealand, Pakistan made a poor start and lost five wickets in the powerplay itself. Pakistan lost five wickets for 28 runs in the first six overs. Pakistan lost the first wicket in the form of Aliya Riaz (0).After this, Maniba Ali (15), Sadaf Shamas (2), Iram Javed (3) and Sidra Amin (0) also returned to the pavilion cheaply. Pakistan team was not in a good position at any time while chasing the target and kept losing wickets at regular intervals.
For Pakistan, captain Fatima Sana scored the maximum 21 runs on 23 balls. Only two of his batsmen could reach double figures, while five batsmen could not even open their account. For New Zealand, Amelia Kerr took three wickets and Eden Carson took two wickets, while Rosemary Mayer, Lia Tahuhu and Fran Jonas took one wicket each.
New Zealand failed to capitalize on the good start
Earlier, New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat first in the Women’s T20 World Cup group stage match against Pakistan. Georgia Plimmer came out to open the innings for New Zealand with Suzie Bates.Both these batsmen gave a strong start to the team against Pakistan and did not allow the opposition team to achieve success during the powerplay. New Zealand had scored 39 runs without any loss in the first six overs.After the powerplay, however, New Zealand got the first blow in the form of Plimmer. Plimmer was having a good partnership with Suzy Bates, but Sandhu broke the partnership by dismissing Plimmer.
Plimmer returned to the pavilion after scoring 17 runs on 14 balls. After this, New Zealand’s innings faltered and it also lost the wickets of Bates and Kerr. After the first blow, New Zealand’s innings could not recover and Pakistan’s bowlers prevented New Zealand from making a big score.For New Zealand, Suzie Bates scored the highest score of 28 runs, while Brook Halliday played an inning of 22 runs. Nashra Sandhu bowled brilliantly for Pakistan and took three wickets for 18 runs in four overs.