Summary

  • India win by six wickets with seven balls to spare - report

  • However, India curiously cautious in run-chase despite need for big win to boost net run-rate

  • Pakistan struggle to 105-8 - Dar top-scores with 28

  • India keeper Ghosh takes brilliant catch as Pakistan's middle order falters

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter & Tim Oscroft

  1. wicket

    WICKET

    Aliya Riaz lbw b Arundhati 4 (Pak 52-5)

    It was clipping leg and Aliya has to go. India are all business - they were certain it was out and had dispersed back to their positions bore confirmation came through.

  2. Pakistan review

    It hit her on the back pad - it looks straight...

  3. Pakistan review

    Aliya Riaz is given out lbw but the batter reviews straight away.

  4. Pak 52-4

    The leg-spin of Asha Sobhana reappears to be worked around for five off the over but there's not a lot of urgency on display at the moment. 100 looks to be optimistic.

  5. 'Simplest of takes'- Muneeba is stumped by Ghosh

    Muneeba was lured down the track, with the keeper making no mistake.

  6. Pak 47-4

    The seam of Renuka Singh Thakur returns, with keeper Richa Ghosh keeping the batters honest by standing up to the stumps.

    Aliya Riaz drives to point get off the mark, and then we see the first boundary for an age when Nida Dar sweeps a full toss down to the triangular sponge thing at fine leg.

  7. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    India bowler Shreyanka Patil appeals for a wicket v PakistanGetty Images

    India are up and about - you can see it in their body language.

    The bowlers are bowling really well, but I think you can tell where the team are at in the way that they field. They have thrown themselves around, they have been quick off the boundary and firing it in to Richa Ghosh.

    They seem really up for this game - how can you not be when it is India v Pakistan?

  8. 'Too simple for words'- Omaima is caught by Verma

    Take a look at one of the most straightforward catches you'll ever see.

  9. Pak 41-4

    Aliya Riaz cannot get the ball past a fielder which means we have that rarest of feats - a wicket maiden in a T20.

  10. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    India bowler Shreyanka PatilGetty Images

    Cool as you like from Shreyanka Patil. It was really nicely bowled, she has actually got a little bit of turn in this over.

    She probably felt in her gut that Muneeba Ali needed to get going and would be trying to go down the wicket, so she just tossed it up a little bit slower and wider. Richa Ghosh then did the rest.

  11. wicket

    WICKET

    Muneeba st Ghosh b Shreyanka 17 (Pak 41-4)

    Muneeba Ali wanders down the track to Shreyanka Patil, but her wild swipe outside off stump misses and Richa Gosh completes a simple stumping.

  12. Pak 41-3

    Asha Sobhana is on with her leg-spin, she needs to make amends for that awful dropped catch.

    The bowler looks to be in with a shout of doing just that, but a chipped drive from Dar drops frustratingly short of her in the follow through.

  13. Pak 37-3

    Nida Dar has joined Muneeba Ali, but neither batter can get much momentum against Deepti's off spin, they nurdle three off the eighth over.

  14. 'The batter is furious!'- Deepti bowls Sidra

    Sidra Amin was the second wicket to fall as Pakistan stumbled.

  15. Lydia Greenway
    Former England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    You could see that, as soon as the ball went up, Shafali Verma's shoulder just dropped. When she caught it, she threw the ball as if to say: 'Is that all you have got?'

  16. wicket

    WICKET

    Omaima c Verma b Arundhati 3 (Pak 33-3)

    The bowler didn't have to wait too long to strike, though, with Omaima hitting it straight to mid off.

    Verma does a bit of a mic drop by tossing the ball away, probably directed at her team-mate for that terrible drop just earlier.

  17. dropped catch

    Dropped catch

    Asha Sobhana drops one of the easiest chances you'll ever see! Muneeba lifts a sweep, it loops slowly to the fielder but she makes a terrible hash of it.

    Arundhati Reddy is deeply unimpressed and rightly so.

  18. 'What a start!' - Renuka bowls Feroza

    It didn't take long for India to get into the Pakistan batting lineup.

  19. Pak 29-2

    Omaima Sohail comes in at four, while Shreyanka Patil's spin takes the sixth over.

    She gives it plenty of air, and Omaima looks uncertain at first but eventually gets off the mark with a nudge to leg.

    29-2 in the Powerplay is a long way short of the return Pakistan would have been looking for,

  20. Lydia Greenway
    Former England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    I think this is a really clever piece of bowling from Deepti Sharma. She has just taken the pace right off it, which has meant that Sidra Amin under-hit it.

    Sharma just held that pace back. It shows once again what a smart cricketer she is. She is doing the business for India.