India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A full delivery by Mair, outside off. Renuka slices it to backward point for a catch! INDIA LOSE! NZ W WIN BY 58 RUNS!

Renuka c Devine b Mair 0 (1)

IND W: 102 (19), Target: 161

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: ANOTHER ONE! Shreyanka goes too early for this shot! She lobs it to mid-off for a simple catch! One wicket stands between NZ W and a win!

Shreyanka c Penfold (sub) b Mair 7 (13)

IND W need 59 in 8 balls.

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Kerr tosses it up, on off. Shreyanka reverse-sweeps it to backward point, and the ball spins past the fielder for a four!

IND W need 62 in 16 balls.

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Kerr tosses it up, outside off. Vastrakar doesn't read the googly. It goes past the inside edge, hits the off stumps! IND W ARE 8 DOWN!

Vastrakar b Kerr 8 (7)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Tahuhu pitches it up, outside off. Deepti tries to go for a big shot, but slices it to Devine at extra cover for a catch!

Deepti c Devine b Tahuhu 13 (18)

IND W: 88/7 (14.4), Target: 161

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Carson tosses it up, down leg. Deepti sweeps it fine, past the fielder at short fine leg, takes a double. Then takes a single. For the final ball of her spell, Carson tosses it up, outside off and full. Vastrakar hammers it through the covers for a four!

IND W: 86/6 (14), Target: 161

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Mair overpitches her delivery, on leg. Deepti glances it to deep square leg for a single. Then Reddy toe-ends it in the next ball, chips it in the air to the ring, caught by Bates

Reddy c Bates b Mair 1 (4)

IND W: 75/5 (12.2), Target: 161

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Another soft dismissal! Richa leaves! Back of a length delivery by Tahuhu and on middle. Richa gets a thick leading edge and Devine catches it!

Richa c Devine b Tahuhu 12 (19)

IND W: 70/5 (11), Target: 161

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Carson tosses it up, on off. Richa guides it to long-off for a single, then it is a dot. Then Carson sends a full toss, Deepti miscues it, goes to mid-on, Halliday drops it, two runs. Then Deepti takes a single. Then it is a dot, followed by three wides. Richa takes a single to end the over.

IND W: 63/4 (10), Target: 161

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Back of a length delivery by Tahuhu and Jemimah pops it short of the bowler. No run. Then she guides it to midwicket for a single. Tahuhu gets a dot in the third delivery, and then sends a wide, down leg. Then Tahuhu sends it back of a length, on middle and leg. Richa directs it to deep midwicket for a single.

Then, Jemimah goes for a big shot, holes it to mid-on for a catch!

Jemimah c Green b Tahuhu 13 (11)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Jess Kerr sends it full, outside off. Richa guides it to cover, no run. The next two balls are also dots. Then Richa takes a single. Jemimah takes a single off sweeper cover. The final ball is a dot. Good over, only two leaked.

IND W: 45/3 (7), Target: 161

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: OUT!!! Harmanpreet doesn't think so, she reviews! BIG MOMENT!! A sharp inswinger by Mair, and Harmanpreet misses, hit on the pad. It was clipping leg! SHE HAS TO LEAVE!

Harmanpreet lbw b Mair 15 (14)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Back of a length delivery by Mair, outside off. Harmanpreet cuts it through point for a four! SHOT!

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: OUT!! CARSON STRIKES! She tosses it up, Mandhana charges out for a big shot, but doesn't get enough elevation. She is caught by Green at long-off.

Mandhana c Green b Carson 12 (13)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A yorker by Mair, attempted atleast. Mandhana smacks it past short third for a four! SHOT!

IND W: 19/1 (3), Target: 161

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: OUT! CARSON STRIKES IN HER FIRST BALL! She tosses it up, on middle. Shafali can only sends it back to her for a simple return catch!

Shafali c and b Carson 2 (4)

IND W: 11/1 (1.1), Target: 161

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A short delivery by Kerr, and Mandhana pulls it to square leg boundary for a four! Then she cuts it to sweeper cover for a single. The next ball is a wide, and then byes, two runs. Then Shafali dabs it to deep midwicket for a single. Then Mandhana guides it to deep square leg for another single. The last ball is hit to long-on for a single.

IND W: 11/0 (1), Target: 161

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: The action resumes! Mandhana and Shafali to open IND W's chase! Jess Kerr will bowl the first over for NZ W.

Target: 161

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A full delivery byb Shreyanka, and Devine smacks it past mid-off for a four and gets her fifty! Then Shreyanka sends a full toss and Devine guides it to deep midwicket for a double. Then a double to long-on. Final ball! Devine top-edges it and gets a single, 11 runs in the final over!

NZ W: 160/4 (20)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: OUT! A length delivery by Renuka, on middle. Halliday ends up sending it to Mandhana at extra cover for a catch! OUT!

Halliday c Mandhana b Renuka 16 (12)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Deepti tosses it on length, on off. Halliday sweeps it past short third for a four, then scoops it away to the deep backward square leg for another four. Then she takes a single.

Then Deepti sends it on length, outisde off. Devine gets it at cow corner for a four and then ends the over with a single.

NZ W: 139/3 (18)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Shreyanka tosses it short, on leg stump. Devine pulls it with ease, past short fine leg for a four! SHOT!

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A full delivery by Renuka, on off. Devine drills it over the non-striker for a four! Then she hammers Renuka over cover for another boundary!

NZ W: 109/3 (15)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: OUT!! RENUKA STRIKES!!!

A full delivery, outside off. Kerr tries to go big over extra cover, but gets it straight to the fielder for an easy catch!

Kerr c Vastrakar b Renuka 13 (22)

NZ W: 99/3 (14.2)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Okay, this will be a big talking point! Deepti tosses it outside off, kerr directs it to long-off and goes for a single. Devine calls for a double and leaves, and Richa does the stumping. But the umpire had already handed over the cap to Deepti, the ball was dead. Not out!

NZ W: 98/2 (14)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Sobhana tosses it full, outside off. Devine smacks it past mid-off for a four, then hammers it at deep square leg for another boundary!

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A MIX UP! A length delivery by Shreyanka, outside off. Devine taps it to deep point and tries to come back for a second, the throw was slow to the bowler. Two runs.

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A length delivery by Reddy, on off. Devine pulls it down to deep square leg for a single. Then two more singles in the next two balls. Then two dots and a single to end this over. Kerr (2*) and Devine (3*) will look to restabilise the innings now!

NZ W: 72/2 (10)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: IND W strike twice quickly! BANG BANG! Sobhana tosses it up, on the stumps. Plimmer charges down the track and launches it straight to Mandhana at long-on for a simple catch! Quickfire wickets!

Plimmer c Mandhana b Sobhana 34 (23)

NZ W: 67/2 (8.1)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A full delivery by Reddy, outside off. Bates scoops it over short fine leg for a double, and then directs another there for another double. Then she scoops again, left of short fine leg for a double.

Then Reddy reduces the pace, Bates can only hol it to deep midwicket for a catch! OUT!

Bates c Shreyanka b Reddy 27 (24)

NZ W: 67/1 (7.4)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Bates starts with a single, and then Plimmer gets a four due to poor fielding, followed by another single. Then Reddy sends a length delivery, on middle. Bates top-edges it high and Richa goes under it, but can't get a hold of it, dropped! One run! Then Plimmer flicks Reddy fine, down fine leg for a four, followed by a single.

NZ W: 55/0 (6)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Renuka begins the over by conceding a single. Then she sends a length deliverym outside off, Plimmer sccops and misses, Richa also doesn't get it, goes for a four! Then two dots, and a single and a dot.

Bates (14*) and Plimmer (15*) are going strong here!

NZ W: 35/0 (4)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A length delivery by Deepti, and it turns down leg, wide. Then she tosses it up full, outside, Plimmer whacks it past mid-off for a four! She follows it up with a double. Then Deepti tosses it on middle, Plimmer guides it to midwicket for a single. Then a dot, and a single. Another wide in the final delivery of this over, turns down leg again. Plimmer pulls the final ball to long-on for a six.

NZ W: 29/0 (3)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Good opening over for NZ W. Vatrakar starts with a short of length delivery, on middle, and Bates pulls it through square leg for a four, then it is a dot. Then Bates smacks her right of mid-on for another four. Ends the over with a single and then two dots.

NZ W: 9/0 (1)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: The action begins! Plimmer and Bates to open the innings for New Zealand. Vastrakar will bowl the first over, with one slip in place.

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Time for national anthems as both teams walk out to the pitch!

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: IND W - Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Arundhati Reddy, Pooja Vastrakar, Shreyanka Patil, Asha Sobhana, Renuka Thakur Singh

NZ W - Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr, Sophie Devine(c), Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Isabella Gaze(w), Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Lea Tahuhu, Eden Carson

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: After winning the toss, NZ W skipper Devine said, "We're going to bat first. I've been really happy about the way the team's gone about it's business. Results haven't gone our way but we're always learnig. Looking to put our best foot forward in this one. It's going to be slower, there's still runs in it. Still opportunity to be attacking."

Meanwhile, Harmanpreet said, "We just want to go out there and play good cricket. All the players back themselves. It's the best team and the best team we have in this format. We have a balanced side. We have a long batting line-up as well. It's all about going out there and enjoying ourselves."

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: It is heads and NZ captain Devine wins toss, opt to bat.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Toss is coming up and is scheduled for 7:00 PM IST. Stay tuned folks! We will see Harmanpreet and Devine walk out soon!

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Speaking ahead of the opener, Jemimah said, "I remember watching the men's final. We had a Test match against South Africa, and on Day 3, we stayed up until 12 or 1:30 in the night watching the match. I remember that moment clearly. We've always dreamt of winning the World Cup, but seeing them win just before our World Cup made it feel so much more real. That desire and passion to win was ignited when we saw Rohit Sharma and the team lifting the trophy. A few of us were in the room, and we are usually a talkative bunch, especially me, but when that happened, we all fell silent."

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: This year, India lost in T20I series vs Australia and England. But they bounced back with consecutive series win vs Bangladesh. Then they drew a series vs South Africa in July. In the Asia Cup 2024 final, they lost to Sri Lanka.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: The no. 3 position has also seen Bhatia in that spot. She is part of the squad, but is expected to be benched. Harmanpreet is at her best at no. 4 or 5.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Muzumdar also revealed that Harmanpreet will bat at no. 3. In the warm-ups, the IND W captain scored one and 10 at no. 3. She will be hoping for a good start.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Muzumdar pointed out that his side have paid attention to the need of a sixth bowling option. He said, "So, I think, yeah, Harman hasn't bowled, but I think she bowled in the second T20 warm-ups. And she's experienced enough to bowl those overs."

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Speaking ahead of the match, IND W head coach Muzumdar said, "I think WPL has been a very successful tournament so far in the last couple of editions. You have seen what response WPL has had. Obviously the stats have helped and we have dig into a lot of statistics and we have seen the results."

"Some of the players that have come into the Indian squad here at the World Cup, I think are products of WPL as well.

"Of course, not undermining the first-class cricket as well back home, but WPL has given us a strong base to find players," he added.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: India have plenty of depth in their batting department, and even their bowling side is packed with talent and experience. It will be interesting to see how they perform in the match.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Harmanpreet and Co. began their warm-up with a 20-run win against Matthews' West Indies. Then they followed it up with a 28-run victory vs South Africa.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Former India cricketer Harbhajan also felt that Australia are India's 'biggest challenge' in this edition. "Australia is a good team, even though these matches are being played in Dubai, on subcontinent pitches that might not suit them as much as their home conditions. But Australia, no matter where they play, are hard to beat. So, the biggest challenge for India may be Australia. Sri Lanka, too, after their recent series win against India, will be confident when they play against India. So, that will also be a good contest," he said, on Star Sports.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: In the previous edition, India were on the cusp of making history and reached the semis. But they lost to Australia in the last four.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Shafali also revealed India's game plan against New Zealand. She claimed that Devine is a 'fearless batter' and they would try to get her out early!

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Shafali and Mandhana's opening partnership will be key as usual! Speaking ahead of the match, Shafali said, "I've been opening with Smriti for the past two-three years, and now we can sense each other's feelings just by our facial expressions while batting. We know each other's strengths and weaknesses, and we give each other positive vibes."

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Suzie Bates, Amelia Kerr, Sophie Devine(c), Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Isabella Gaze(w), Hannah Rowe, Rosemary Mair, Eden Carson, Fran Jonas, Lea Tahuhu, Leigh Kasperek, Jess Kerr, Molly Penfold, Georgia Plimmer

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Shreyanka Patil, Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav, Renuka Thakur Singh, Dayalan Hemalatha, S Sajana, Yastika Bhatia, Asha Sobhana

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Hello and welcome everyone! IND W face NZ W in their tournament opener in Dubai, and all eyes will be on Harmanpreet and Co. They were unbeaten in the warm-up and will look to maintain their winning run!

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