Dubai: The Indian women's cricket team has performed brilliantly and made it to the finals of the Women's Asia Cup 2026. In the first semi-final, India defeated Bangladesh by 40 runs. With this victory, the Indian team has entered the final of the tournament for the 10th consecutive time.
Shafali Verma played a brilliant innings
Batting first, India scored 149 runs in 20 overs. Shafali Verma played an important role in taking the team to a strong score by playing an aggressive inning of 64 runs in 40 balls. During this period, he also benefited from Bangladesh's fielding mistakes and missed his catches several times.
Richa Ghosh scored 21 runs in 16 balls, while captain Harmanpreet Kaur contributed 24 not out. Bangladesh dropped many catches during India's innings, which benefited the Indian team.
Bowlers stopped Bangladesh
Chasing the target of 149 runs, Bangladesh team could score only 109 runs for 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. For India, Deepti Sharma bowled brilliantly and took three wickets. Nandani Sharma also curbed Bangladesh's run rate by taking two wickets.
Indian bowlers did not give Bangladesh batsmen a chance to score runs freely in the middle overs and ultimately Team India won the match by 40 runs.
Now who will compete in the finals?
India's eyes are now on the title. There will be a match between the teams of Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the second semi-final. The winning team of this match will face India in the final.