New Zealand Beat India, Women's T20 World Cup 2024: New Zealand started their World Cup campaign with a win by defeating India by 58 runs in the fourth match of the Women's T20 World Cup 2024 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. New Zealand had given India a target of 161 runs to win, in response to which Team India could score only 102 runs.

In this match, New Zealand captain Sophie Devine won the toss and decided to bat first. After winning the toss, New Zealand's team batting first had a great start and both the openers batted aggressively for the first wicket and scored 67 runs on the board.

New Zealand team scored 160 runs in the stipulated 20 overs by losing four wickets. Captain Sophie Devine played a stormy innings of 57 runs for New Zealand. During this fiery innings, Sophie Devine hit seven fours in 36 balls. Apart from Sophie Devine, Georgia Plimer scored 34 runs.

Renuka Singh Thakur took the maximum of two wickets from Team India's side. Apart from Renuka Singh Thakur, Arundhati Reddy and Asha Sobhana got one wicket each.

Then Indian team, which came out to chase the target of 161 runs given by New Zealand, lost the wicket of Shefali Verma in the second over itself. After this, it was expected that Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana would form a partnership and take India out of the difficult situation, but this did not happen.

India suffered the second blow in the form of Mandhana, who was dismissed after scoring 12 runs. Captain Harmanpreet was dismissed after scoring 15 runs. Jemimah scored 13, Richa 12, Deepti 13, Arundhati 1, Pooja 8, Shreyanka managed to score 7 runs, while Renuka could not even open the account. For New Zealand, Rosemarie Mair took 4 wickets giving 19 runs in 4 overs, while Lee Tahuhu took 3 wickets giving 15 runs in 4 overs. Team India not even able to play its full 20 over in the 19th over India allout at the score of 102. Thus New Zealand won the match by 58 runs.

Player of the Match: Sophie Devine (NZ-W) 57* (36).

Team India's Captain Harmanpreet Kaur after the Match: "We didn't play our best cricket today. Going forward we have to think what areas we have to improve. Every game now is important and we have to play our best cricket. We created chances, it's not like that we didn't create. They played better cricket than us, no doubt about that. This is such a high stage where you can't make these mistakes. We have chased 160-170 many times. But on that pitch .. it was 10-15 runs too many. At one stage, the way they started, I was thinking it would be 180. This wasn't the start we were expecting (in this tournament)"

Team India's next match of the Women's T20 World 2024 will be on October 6 against Arch Rival Pakistan.