India vs New Zealand Highlights Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Harmanpreet-led IND W crash to 58-run opening defeat

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Sobhana tosses it full, outside off. Devine smacks it past mid-off for a four, then hammers it at deep square leg for another boundary!

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A MIX UP! A length delivery by Shreyanka, outside off. Devine taps it to deep point and tries to come back for a second, the throw was slow to the bowler. Two runs.

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A length delivery by Reddy, on off. Devine pulls it down to deep square leg for a single. Then two more singles in the next two balls. Then two dots and a single to end this over. Kerr (2*) and Devine (3*) will look to restabilise the innings now!

NZ W: 72/2 (10)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: IND W strike twice quickly! BANG BANG! Sobhana tosses it up, on the stumps. Plimmer charges down the track and launches it straight to Mandhana at long-on for a simple catch! Quickfire wickets!

Plimmer c Mandhana b Sobhana 34 (23)

NZ W: 67/2 (8.1)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A full delivery by Reddy, outside off. Bates scoops it over short fine leg for a double, and then directs another there for another double. Then she scoops again, left of short fine leg for a double.

Then Reddy reduces the pace, Bates can only hol it to deep midwicket for a catch! OUT!

Bates c Shreyanka b Reddy 27 (24)

NZ W: 67/1 (7.4)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Bates starts with a single, and then Plimmer gets a four due to poor fielding, followed by another single. Then Reddy sends a length delivery, on middle. Bates top-edges it high and Richa goes under it, but can't get a hold of it, dropped! One run! Then Plimmer flicks Reddy fine, down fine leg for a four, followed by a single.

NZ W: 55/0 (6)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Renuka begins the over by conceding a single. Then she sends a length deliverym outside off, Plimmer sccops and misses, Richa also doesn't get it, goes for a four! Then two dots, and a single and a dot.

Bates (14*) and Plimmer (15*) are going strong here!

NZ W: 35/0 (4)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: A length delivery by Deepti, and it turns down leg, wide. Then she tosses it up full, outside, Plimmer whacks it past mid-off for a four! She follows it up with a double. Then Deepti tosses it on middle, Plimmer guides it to midwicket for a single. Then a dot, and a single. Another wide in the final delivery of this over, turns down leg again. Plimmer pulls the final ball to long-on for a six.

NZ W: 29/0 (3)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Good opening over for NZ W. Vatrakar starts with a short of length delivery, on middle, and Bates pulls it through square leg for a four, then it is a dot. Then Bates smacks her right of mid-on for another four. Ends the over with a single and then two dots.

NZ W: 9/0 (1)

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: The action begins! Plimmer and Bates to open the innings for New Zealand. Vastrakar will bowl the first over, with one slip in place.

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Time for national anthems as both teams walk out to the pitch!

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: IND W - Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Arundhati Reddy, Pooja Vastrakar, Shreyanka Patil, Asha Sobhana, Renuka Thakur Singh

NZ W - Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr, Sophie Devine(c), Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Isabella Gaze(w), Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Lea Tahuhu, Eden Carson

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: After winning the toss, NZ W skipper Devine said, "We're going to bat first. I've been really happy about the way the team's gone about it's business. Results haven't gone our way but we're always learnig. Looking to put our best foot forward in this one. It's going to be slower, there's still runs in it. Still opportunity to be attacking."

Meanwhile, Harmanpreet said, "We just want to go out there and play good cricket. All the players back themselves. It's the best team and the best team we have in this format. We have a balanced side. We have a long batting line-up as well. It's all about going out there and enjoying ourselves."

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: It is heads and NZ captain Devine wins toss, opt to bat.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Toss is coming up and is scheduled for 7:00 PM IST. Stay tuned folks! We will see Harmanpreet and Devine walk out soon!

India vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Speaking ahead of the opener, Jemimah said, "I remember watching the men's final. We had a Test match against South Africa, and on Day 3, we stayed up until 12 or 1:30 in the night watching the match. I remember that moment clearly. We've always dreamt of winning the World Cup, but seeing them win just before our World Cup made it feel so much more real. That desire and passion to win was ignited when we saw Rohit Sharma and the team lifting the trophy. A few of us were in the room, and we are usually a talkative bunch, especially me, but when that happened, we all fell silent."

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: This year, India lost in T20I series vs Australia and England. But they bounced back with consecutive series win vs Bangladesh. Then they drew a series vs South Africa in July. In the Asia Cup 2024 final, they lost to Sri Lanka.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: The no. 3 position has also seen Bhatia in that spot. She is part of the squad, but is expected to be benched. Harmanpreet is at her best at no. 4 or 5.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Muzumdar also revealed that Harmanpreet will bat at no. 3. In the warm-ups, the IND W captain scored one and 10 at no. 3. She will be hoping for a good start.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Muzumdar pointed out that his side have paid attention to the need of a sixth bowling option. He said, "So, I think, yeah, Harman hasn't bowled, but I think she bowled in the second T20 warm-ups. And she's experienced enough to bowl those overs."

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Speaking ahead of the match, IND W head coach Muzumdar said, "I think WPL has been a very successful tournament so far in the last couple of editions. You have seen what response WPL has had. Obviously the stats have helped and we have dig into a lot of statistics and we have seen the results."

"Some of the players that have come into the Indian squad here at the World Cup, I think are products of WPL as well.

"Of course, not undermining the first-class cricket as well back home, but WPL has given us a strong base to find players," he added.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: India have plenty of depth in their batting department, and even their bowling side is packed with talent and experience. It will be interesting to see how they perform in the match.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Harmanpreet and Co. began their warm-up with a 20-run win against Matthews' West Indies. Then they followed it up with a 28-run victory vs South Africa.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Former India cricketer Harbhajan also felt that Australia are India's 'biggest challenge' in this edition. "Australia is a good team, even though these matches are being played in Dubai, on subcontinent pitches that might not suit them as much as their home conditions. But Australia, no matter where they play, are hard to beat. So, the biggest challenge for India may be Australia. Sri Lanka, too, after their recent series win against India, will be confident when they play against India. So, that will also be a good contest," he said, on Star Sports.

India Vs New Zealand Live Score Women's T20 World Cup 2024: In the previous edition, India were on the cusp of making history and reached the semis. But they lost to Australia in the last four.