New Delhi, Online Desk. The Indian women’s cricket team will start their World Cup campaign against arch-rivals Pakistan at the Bay-Oval ground on Sunday. This match will start at 6.30 am Indian time. For any tournament it is necessary that you have a good start so the team would like to win this match. Barring the series against New Zealand, everything has gone well for the team. From the last ODI against New Zealand to the two warm-up matches, the team has also won.

The team defeated South Africa by 2 runs in the first warm-up match and West Indies by 81 runs in the second warm-up match. Indian batsmen batted well against West Indies. In this match, Mandhana scored 66 while Deepti scored 51 runs. Apart from this, captain Mithali Raj scored 30 while Yastika Bhatia also scored 42 runs. The team would like to continue this winning momentum here as well. The top order of the team seems to be in good form.

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The clash between the two teams in the World Cup

Both the teams have not played many matches among themselves in the World Cup. Till now there has been only two occasions when both the teams have clashed. India has won both the times and Pakistan is still waiting for victory.

Apart from this, one good thing for India is that Pakistan’s team has not even touched the 100 mark in both the matches.

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The two teams were facing each other for the last time in the 2017 World Cup

The last encounter between the two teams took place in the last World Cup. Indian team won this match by 95 runs. Indian bowler Ekta Bisht took 6 wickets in this match. Talking about batting, Poonam Rawat scored 47 and Sushma Verma scored 33 runs.

Be careful with this Pakistani bowler

Experience matters a lot in a big tournament like the World Cup. In view of this, experienced Pakistan bowler Nashra Sandhu can become the biggest threat to the Indian team. Last time in the World Cup, he had sent four players of India to the pavilion.

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Indian women’s probable team

Mithali Raj (Captain), Harmanpreet Kaur (Vice Captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (WK), Jhulan Goswami, Renuka Singh Thakur, Rajeshwari Gaikwad and Poonam Yadav