India registered a terrific 82-run victory in the third match of their Women's T20 World Cup campaign. Not only did India need to secure the points, they also needed to do so in an emphatic fashion to recover their poor net run-rate insofar. India now find themselves on 4 points ahead of Pakistan and New Zealand, and recovered their NRR all the way to being ahead of Pakistan.
India now sit on 0.58, while Pakistan are on 0.56, and the Kiwis are all the way back on -0.
050 after their big opening win against India was nullified by a slightly bigger loss to Australia. However, India are still not guaranteed qualification to the semifinals, due to the extra matches in hand possessed by New Zealand and Pakistan, having only played two matches apiece so far. New Zealand in particular are a threat: with Australia and India out of the way, the White Ferns will back themselves to generate results against Pakistan and a hapless Sri Lanka.
This would put the Kiwis on 6 points, ahead of India, with the women still due to play the machine that is Australia's white-ball team, who are the defending champions and are gunning for a seventh T20 World Cup trophy. In short, this means India will need one of their Asian neighbours to do them a favour by beating New Zealand, so that India's match against Australia doesn't become a fight for survival. Equally, if Pakistan do beat New Zealand, India will need an Australian win to keep the women in green away from the top two slots as well.
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