India to play against Pakistan in Women's World Cup
The humiliating 138-run defeat against Sri Lanka on Tuesday night, meant that India will now have to go through the qualifiers to feature in the next edition of the World cup four years later.
The collective failure of the top batting order in the last two matches, even in home conditions, has led to India needing to regroup quickly.
The pressure will be on Indians who have been hit hard by a sudden slump in form of their key players after a comfortable 105-run win against the West Indies in the tournament opener.
The inexperienced bowling attack has only compounded the misery for the hosts.
India and Pakistan have several issues to address leading up to tomorrow’s game at the Barabati Stadium.
While India has struggled with the indifferent form of their bowlers, Pakistan needs good batting.
Among the batswomen, barring Harmanpreet Kaur, Karu Jain and Murugesan Tirushkamini, no other Indian batswomen could be able to convert the starts into a good score.
India would hope that the openers provide them a good platform after they missed out against England and Sri Lanka. Their middle-order would have to pitch in to help set a competitive total to defend against Pakistan on a placid Barabati track.
On the other hand, Pakistan has more reasons to worry than its Indian counterpart as neither its batting nor bowling has clicked till now.
They were thrashed by the South Africans in their last group league fixture by 126 runs to send the women in green crashing out of the event on Tuesday.
The team managed a meager score of 84, 104 and 81 in the encounters against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa respectively.
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