The unbeaten-versus-unbeaten decider everyone in Group A was waiting for turned into one of the most lopsided results the fixture has produced. India bowled Pakistan out for 55 — the lowest total in Pakistan Women's T20I history — and knocked off the target for the loss of three wickets to win by seven wickets in Dubai on September 5.
Pakistan never recovered from the platform their own openers gave away. Muneeba Ali and Shawaal Zulfiqar put on 27 for the first wicket, but everything unravelled once India's spinners came on. Shree Charani finished with 3 for 7 and Prema Rawat took 3 for 9, with Deepti Sharma and Shafali Verma also among the wickets, as Pakistan folded to 55 all out in 18.1 overs.
The total is now Pakistan Women's lowest in T20I cricket, beating their previous low of 56 against New Zealand in Dubai in 2024. It slots into an unwanted list of the side's worst T20I collapses: 56 versus New Zealand in Dubai (2024), 60 versus England in Taunton (2009), 63 versus India in Guangzhou (2012), 65 versus West Indies in St Andrew's (2011), and 72 versus Sri Lanka in Colombo (2018) — meaning three of Pakistan's six lowest T20I totals have now come against India specifically.
Set only 56 to win, India lost early wickets of their own — Fatima Sana removed Shafali Verma among two wickets, and Smriti Mandhana, fresh off her record 124 against Hong Kong China, was out lbw — but the target was never realistically in danger. Harmanpreet Kaur (18 not out) and Deepti Sharma (12 not out) saw India home at 57 for 3 in just 8.4 overs, wrapping up the win with more than 11 overs unused.
The result leaves India unbeaten through three group games and effectively confirmed at the top of Group A heading into the September 10-11 semi-finals, having already beaten Thailand and Hong Kong China comfortably before this win over Pakistan. Pakistan, who had opened their own campaign with a 35-run win over Thailand, still have a game against Hong Kong China left to play, but a result this one-sided does real damage to their net run rate with the group's business end approaching.
Analysis: India's head-to-head dominance over Pakistan in women's T20Is is well established, but a 55-all-out collapse is a different order of result from a routine win — it's the kind of scoreline that gets attributed to conditions or a bad day as much as to genuine gulf in class. Pakistan's batting has looked fragile against high-quality spin more than once this year, and facing an Indian attack with two bowlers taking three wickets apiece in the same innings is about as hard an examination of that weakness as a group game offers. The bigger question for Pakistan now is whether that fragility resurfaces if they meet India again in the knockouts, rather than whether this result was a one-off. It's also worth noting that Pakistan's own recent form outside this fixture had been solid — the 35-run win over Thailand was built on a proper batting platform — which makes the totality of this collapse harder to explain away as a squad in freefall.
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