India vs Pakistan Women T20 World Cup Predictions - India set to overpower Pakistan in group opener

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India are the second favourites to take the World Cup with current odds at 4.50.
Pakistan are way down the pecking order of women’s T20I cricket and lack the firepower to pose a challenge to the well-balanced India side.
Pakistan finished last in the recent tri-series against Ireland and the West Indies.

Harmanpreet Kaur is one of the world's top batters (Getty Images).

India vs Pakistan Women Predictions

India beat World Cup contenders South Africa 4-1 in April before losing 2-1 to England just ahead of the World Cup, but they are such a powerful unit they should have little trouble picking up the win over Pakistan.

India vs Pakistan Women Predictions
Head-to-Head
India Women Form
Pakistan Women Form
Team news

India Women’s Harmanpreet Kaur has scored 47*, 66, 22, 22, 28 & 56* in 8 innings.
India Women’s Jemimah Rodrigues has scored 43, 69 & 29 in her last 6 knocks.
India Women’s Shreyanka Patil has taken 18 wickets in her last 10 matches.
Pakistan Women’s Fatima Sana has scored between 20 and 62* in her last 7 innings.
Pakistan Women’s Muneeba Ali has posted scores of 65, 36 and 20 in 4 knocks.
Pakistan Women’s Nashra Sandhu has taken 2 wickets in an innings 4 times in her last nine matches.

Head-to-Head

India Women have won four and lost one of their last five Women's T20Is against Pakistan Women, including winning the last three on the bounce.

India Women Form

India come into the World Cup on the back of losing three of their last four T20Is, but they were against strong opposition in the shape of South Africa and England.

Harmanpreet Kaur has six scores between 22 and 66 in her last eight innings and has racked up 4,075 runs in T20Is at an average of 30.18. She has also picked up 32 wickets at an average of 24.84. Jemimah Rodrigues has three scores of 29-plus in her last six matches and has scored 2,732 T20I runs (ave 30.02).

Shreyanka Patil has been in menacing form with the ball, returning figures of 2/24, 3/22, 2/26, 2/35, 4/36 and 2/29 in her last 10 matches. Deepti Sharma has figures of 5/19 and 2/37 in her last six T20Is, taking nine wickets in total along with posting scores of 36*, 22 and 32.

Pakistan Women Form

Pakistan lost their last two T20Is on the bounce to the West Indies and Ireland to finish last in the recent tri-series in Ireland.

Fatima Sana has been incredibly reliable with the bat, scoring 25, 21*, 62*, 27, 21, 21*, 37 and 12* in her last eight innings. She has also returned figures of 2/28, 3/15, 3/7 and 1/22 in her last nine innings. Muneeba Ali has scored 20-plus in three of her last four matches.

Nashra Sandhu has returned figures of 2/25, 2/18, 2/21 and 2/29 in her last eight matches. Sadia Iqbal has also been performing well with the ball, with figures of 2/65, 3/41, 2/14 and 3/20 in her last nine matches.

Team news

India have been buoyed by the news that Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and Richa Ghosh have all passed fitness tests and will be available for selection. Pakistan have a fully fit squad and will be looking for Fatima Sana to lead experienced heads such as Muneeba Ali and Nida Dar in a bid to challenge India for the win.

India Women (possible XI): S Mandhana, Shafali Verma, JI Rodrigues, H Kaur (c), Richa Ghosh, BS Fulmali, DB Sharma, A Reddy, K Goud, NR-shree Charani, Renuka Singh.

Pakistan Women (possible XI): Muneeba Ali, G Feroza, Aliya Riaz, Ayesha Zafar, Iram Javed, Sana Fatima (c), Rameen Shamim, Nashra Sandhu, Sadia Iqbal, T Rubab, Diana Baig.

Verdict

India v Pakistan Women T20 World Cup

India Women are tipped to win at odds of 1.068, with Fatima Sana, Nashra Sandhu, Harmanpreet Kaur and Shreyanka Patil backed to star with bat and ball.