IND vs THA Highlights, Women's Asia Cup 2026: India thump Thailand by 94 runs despite a big collapse in their opener

IND vs THA Highlights, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Deepti Sharma and Nandani Sharma picked up three wickets each as India bowled Thailand out for 65.

IND vs THA Highlights, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Deepti Sharma had a great day at the office. (HT_PRINT)

IND vs THA Highlights, Women's Asia Cup 2026: So it's over. India beat Thailand in their Asia Cup opener by 94 runs. Chasing 160 to win at the Dubai International Stadium, the Thai team was bowled out for 65 in the 17th over with Deepti Sharma and Nandani Sharma taking three wickets each. Comprehensive bowling performance. However, the Indians were not convincing with their batting. From 91/1, they could only manage 159/9. Apart from Player-of-the-Match Shafali Verma (64 off 36 balls), none could contribute in a significant way. India next play Hong Kong on Thursday. Please do come back and join us for that match....Read More

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• 30 Aug 2026, 10:56:38 PM IST

  IND vs THA Highlights, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Deepti takes her third

  IND vs THA Highlights, Women's Asia Cup 2026: It's over. India win by 94 runs in their Asia Cup opener. Thailand fold for just 65 in the 17th over. Deepti Sharma and Nandani Sharma share six wickets between them. Shree Charani also had a great day at the office with two wickets. Kranti Gaud also picked up a wicket. India now are next in action against Hong Kong on Thursday. A win there can seal a place for them in the semis.

• 30 Aug 2026, 10:49:22 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Run out

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Smriti Mandhana hits the stumps from mid-on. 9 wickets down for Thailand. Third umpire is deciding who is out between Nannapat and Onnicha. It's the latter. India is just one wicket away from victory. Thailand 65/9 after 16 overs.

• 30 Aug 2026, 10:47:34 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Thailand 60/8

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Finally a wicket. It's Nandani Sharma. Laomi holes out to Shafali Verma at long-on. She did well with the ball but with the bat, it has been a totally different story. Nandani takes another off the next ball. Caught behind by Richa Ghosh after a little juggle.

• 30 Aug 2026, 10:35:22 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Formality now

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Surely, Thailand can't win from here. 52/6 after 12 overs. They need 108 runs in 48 balls with four wickets in hand. Impossible. The Thai team did well with the ball but with the bat, they have been awful. There is no life in this match now.

• 30 Aug 2026, 10:20:18 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Deepti strikes off the first ball

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Fifth wicket goes down. Naomi Hamilton goes for 1. Trapped lbw by Deepti Sharma off her first ball. It's sure all over bar the shouting. Chaihan then pick out Nandini at short midwicket. Six wickets down. Second wicket for Deepti off the fourth ball of her over. Guess what, there has been a dropped catch too. If not for that, it would have been a three-wicket over for Deepti. Thailand 44/6

• 30 Aug 2026, 10:18:25 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: It gets too much for Chanida

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Goes for a slog sweep off Charani but miscues it and finds Smriti Mandhana at long-on. She is unplayable, if truth be told. Thailand four down in the seventh over. Chanida goes for five off seven balls. Naomi joins Nannapat at the crease. Thailand 44/4 after 8 overs

• 30 Aug 2026, 10:09:59 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Charani strikes

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Aphisara is trapped lbw. She goes for 1 in six balls. Thailand 39/3 after six overs. India were 65/1 at this stage when they were batting. Prema Rawat to bowl the seventh over of the innings. Guess what, a catch has been dropped two. Nandini couldn't do what she did earlier. If not for that, it would have been a three-wicket over for Deepti.

• 30 Aug 2026, 09:58:38 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Second wicket

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Maya goes for 6 off 8 balls. Nandini Sharma is the wicket-taker this time. Pratika Rawal takes a nice catch on the offside. Thailand 16/2 in 3.1 overs.

• 30 Aug 2026, 09:54:14 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Maya dropped

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Deepti Sharma is the culprit in the slips off the bowling of Kranti Gaud. It could have been her second wicket. She is getting a lot of bounce off the pitch. Thailand 16/1 after 3 overs.

• 30 Aug 2026, 09:44:42 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Kranti first up

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Natthakan picks up a four off the third ball. Nice cut on the offside. She is crucial to the Thai chase. Maya is the other Thai opener. Natthakan is bowled off the fifth ball. She played on. Just as we were praising her, she got that edge into the stumps. Thailand 8/1 after the first over.

• 30 Aug 2026, 09:25:53 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Good finish

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Gaud gets a six off the last over bowled by Thipatcha. She also picks up a four off the last ball. India finish on 159/9.

• 30 Aug 2026, 09:16:35 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: One more goes!

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Nandini Sharma bowled for 1 by Chanida. The horror continues for the Indian team. India 137/9 in the 18th over. Now even 150 looks unlikely. At one time, the Indians were 91/1. What a grand collapse.

• 30 Aug 2026, 09:12:11 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Bharti goes!

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Bharti goes for 13 off 14 balls. Chaturongrattana is hit straight into the hands of the mid-wicket. Seven wickets down. Nandini Sharma is the new batter. Prema goes out stumped off the last ball. India 137/8 after 17 overs. What a collapse. At one time India looked good for a 200 plus total. Now it's 150 they are targeting.

• 30 Aug 2026, 09:06:56 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Another run out

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Deepti Sharma is the second batter to be run out. Smriti was the first! Another direct throw. The Indian innings has totally lost the plot. Deepti departs for 5 off 7 balls. Prema Rawat is the new batter and she picks up a four off the first ball. India 133/6 after 16 overs.

• 30 Aug 2026, 09:04:00 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Pitch has slowed down

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: The ball is older too. Both have combined to hurt the Indian innings. India 127/5 after 15 overs. Laomi finishes a wonderful spell. Three wickets for her and she gives away just 26 runs.

• 30 Aug 2026, 08:54:34 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: 5 wickets down

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Shafali Verma caught and bowled by Laomi. Then Richa Ghosh is also removed off the next ball for a duck. Simple catch in the covers. India appear to be in trouble. India 112/5 in 12.5 overs. Shafali went for 64 off 36 balls. Deepti and Bharti are at the crease at present.

• 30 Aug 2026, 08:49:17 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Harmanpreet goes

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: She top edges to Maya. Goes for 5 off 9 balls. Thipatcha accounts for her. India 110/3 after 12 overs. She was looking a bit off-colour right from the outset. Also, the pitch appears to have slowed down.

• 30 Aug 2026, 08:39:39 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: 100 for India

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: India 101/2 after 10 overs. Shafali picks up two fours off the Kamchomphu over. She is unbeaten on 59 off 29 balls. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur is at the other on 1.

• 30 Aug 2026, 08:36:04 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Third six for Shafali over

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Then a single off the next ball. She reaches her fifty off 26 balls. Celebrations short-lived as Laomi removes Pratika for 22 off the last ball of the ninth over. She has been bowled. India 91/2.

• 30 Aug 2026, 08:28:37 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: 2nd six for Shafali

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: She is approaching fifty. 15 runs off the Chaturongrattana over. India 80/1 after 7 overs. Shafali also picked up a four. Pratika also got a four from the over. India on the rampage

• 30 Aug 2026, 08:24:34 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: India 65/1 after 6

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Good start for the Indians even though Smriti should not have been run out. She must be regretting the way she ran. Pratika has looked at ease so far. She has played a couple of really good shots.

• 30 Aug 2026, 08:18:18 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Pratika gets a six

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: On her T20I debut! So early into her innings. Off her fourth ball. What a shot over the covers. Pure timing, inside out. Verma then picks up a four on the legside off Sunida. India 59/1 after five overs.

• 30 Aug 2026, 08:12:02 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: First six and Smriti out!

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Verma hits Maya over long-off for a big six. What a shot. A four for Smriti previously in the over too. Smriti is out! Run-out. That was an easy double off the last ball but it seems Smriti got complacent. A direct throw from the long-on accounted for her. Replays show poor running from both batters. Very casual. She goes for 19 off 10 balls. She was really looking in great nick.

• 30 Aug 2026, 08:06:08 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Verma gets in on the act

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Third ball, Verma lifts it over the mid-off for a four. One more aerial shot for a four. Off the fifth ball, in the direction of long-on. Then a cut on the offside for a two. India 26/0 after two overs

• 30 Aug 2026, 08:01:46 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Smriti picks up first four

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Off the second ball. Maya was a bit wayward on the legside and Smriti punishes her. Here is another. Short ball and pulled nicely to four. Back-to-back fours. One more four, backfoot punch through the covers. Smriti running amok. Single off the last ball. India 13/0 after the first over.

• 30 Aug 2026, 07:54:52 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: India's Playing XI

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: 1 Shafali Verma, 2 Smriti Mandhana, 3 Pratika Rawal, 4 Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), 5 Bharti Fulmali, 6 Richa Ghosh (wk), 7 Deepti Sharma, 8 Prema Rawat, 9 N Shree Charani, 10 Kranti Gaud, 11 Nandani Sharma

• 30 Aug 2026, 07:51:59 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Pitch report

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: This is the third game on this pitch but it remains hard which means batting should be easier. It's surprising that Thailand have decided to bowl but then they played here a couple of days against Hong Kon. Maybe, they know something we don't.

• 30 Aug 2026, 07:45:59 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Big day for Pratika

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: She made the squad as a Jemima Rodrigues replacement after the latter picked up a hamstring injury. Pratika has played a Test and 27 ODIs before, but this is going to be her first T20I. No.3 is going to be her position today

• 30 Aug 2026, 07:32:54 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Thailand win the toss

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: And they decide to bowl. The Thailand captain hopes they restrict India to 120 or thereabouts. Harmanpreet says she would have bowled first too. She confirms Pratika Rawal is going to debut for India.

• 30 Aug 2026, 07:27:39 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Pratika Rawal set for debut

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: She has been handed the India cap. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur has done the honour. Big day for Rawal.

• 30 Aug 2026, 07:21:08 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: India looking to make up

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Make up for their disappointing show in the T20 World Cup a couple of months ago. They couldn't even reach the semis. A good show in the Asia Cup will help alleviate the hurt a bit. But, despite being the best team in the tournament, they can't afford to be complacent.

• 30 Aug 2026, 07:07:07 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Toss to happen in some time

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: The match starts at 8:00 pm. Remember all matches will be played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. The pitches here are a bit on the slow side, so India will have to be a wee careful. They need to curb their free-flowing batting style a littl.

• 30 Aug 2026, 07:01:32 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Asian Games next!

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: This tournament provides good preparation for the Asian Games kicking off next month in Japan. India would hope to win this edition. They have won the event seven times, including thrice in the T20 format. The last time they won it in 2022. Sri Lanka won the last edition in 2024.

• 30 Aug 2026, 06:47:21 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: India are going to miss Jemima Rodrigues

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: She is facing a hamstring issue. Muzumdar says the team is going to miss her. “I've always maintained that she's a clutch player for us. She will definitely be missed, but having said that her recovery is very important for us. Her rehab is well-taken care of at the Centre of Excellence at Bengaluru.”

• 30 Aug 2026, 06:45:25 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Amol Muzumdar ahead of the contest

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: The India head coach says: "This group has been a special one. We've done well in the ODI setup, in the Test matches that we've played. Last five Tests, if you see we've won four of them.

  "So they're hungry for success, they're hungry to winning some tournaments. Every tournament is important, every tournament is crucial for this setup. They're really hungry for success. You'll be able to see that in the coming future."

• 30 Aug 2026, 05:53:15 PM IST

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: Hello and welcome!

  IND vs THA LIVE Score, Women's Asia Cup 2026: To our coverage of India's first game of the Asia Cup against Thailand at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Stay tuned for the latest updates. The match kicks off at 8:00 pm IST.