INDW vs PAKW Live Score: Toss coming up, India begin T20 WC campaign against arch-rivals

The India Women vs Pakistan Women in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 match will be live on Star Sports Network in India. Online streaming is available on JioHotstar. Toss at 6:30 PM IST, first ball at 7:00 PM IST.

Pakistan are not coming in without options. Fatima Sana has scored 298 runs in her last 10 T20I innings at an average of over 70, and she is a seam-bowling threat too. Muneeba Ali at the top and Aliya Riaz in the middle provide batting structure. Spinners Sadia Iqbal and Nashra Sandhu are hard to attack through the middle overs. Pakistan have been inconsistent over the past year, but that is not the same thing as being a soft opponent.

The toss could settle a lot here. Cloud cover tends to help the new ball at Edgbaston, and the side bowling first usually gets more out of the conditions. Pakistan may well want to bowl first, and keep India's openers under pressure early, set a total they can chase with their spinners in good form.

This is Harmanpreet Kaur’s 10th Women’s T20 World Cup, and she leads India in her fifth campaign. The squad is experienced, but the form picture heading in is less clean. Smriti Mandhana has not crossed 40 in her last nine T20I innings across all competitions. Harmanpreet has been managed carefully through the build-up. Neither is walking in with great momentum. If both struggle early at Edgbaston, India's middle order faces a stern examination before the game even gets going.

The bowling is a different story. Renuka Singh and Arundhati Reddy should get something out of this pitch under the cloud. Deepti Sharma and Radha Yadav are difficult to score off once the powerplay ends. Shreyanka Patil has nine wickets in six innings ahead of this game, including a four-wicket haul against West Indies in the warm-up and looks in excellent touch.

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Cloudy in Birmingham on Sunday afternoon, with temperatures around 16-18 degrees Celsius at start time. It cools a little toward evening, which can make the second innings marginally harder for batters under lights. Nothing drastic, but worth noting.

Rain probability for June 14 stands at 10 per cent. Saturday's Bangladesh vs Netherlands match at the same ground went through cleanly. Sunday looks similar. A full game is expected.

The pitch at Edgbaston tends to be lively in the first few overs, particularly with cloud overhead. Seamers get some movement early, not extravagant, but enough to make life awkward for openers trying to get set quickly. It settles as the match goes on, and from around over seven or eight, it becomes a better surface to bat on.

Average first innings scores in women's T20s at this venue sit around 145-158. A total of 155 or above can be defended. Anything under 140 is usually within reach if the chasing openers get a decent start.

Renuka Singh and Diana Baig are the two bowlers most likely to benefit in the powerplay. As the overs go on and the pitch dries out, it tends to favour cutters and variations, which suits both Deepti Sharma and Fatima Sana.

Toss verdict: Bowl first. Use the cloud, then chase.

India lead the overall T20I record against Pakistan 13-3. In Women's T20 World Cup games specifically, it is 6-2 across eight meetings. But two of Pakistan's three wins have come at World Cups. That is not the record of a side that folds under pressure. It is the record of a side that tends to save something for the occasions that matter.

Pakistan have not beaten India in a T20I since winning the Asia Cup in 2022 in Bangladesh. That is a long gap, and it has run alongside some genuine inconsistency in Pakistan women's cricket. Fatima Sana's development as a genuine two-way player, someone who can affect a game with bat or ball, is the biggest shift in Pakistan's team in that period.

Stat	Overall	Women's T20 WC
Matches	16	8
Won (India Women)	13	6
Won (Pakistan Women)	3	2
Winning % (India Women)	81.25	75
Winning % (Pakistan Women)	18.75	25