Shefali Verma Record: Shefali Verma’s explosive innings in T20 World Cup 2026! Created history by making a world record

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Thanks to the all-round performance of Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma, India registered its second consecutive win in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026. The team defeated Netherlands by 95 runs in its second match. Earlier, India had defeated Pakistan badly in its opening match. In the match against Netherlands, Mandhana played a strong inning of 74 runs for the Indian team. Along with Mandhana, Shefali Verma also scored a brilliant half century.

Apart from this half century, Shefali also did wonders with bowling. He took three wickets for just 20 runs in 3.2 overs. Earlier, he had scored 55 runs in 38 balls. With this, Shefali became only the third player in the world to score a half century and take three wickets in a T20 World Cup match. Before Shefali, this feat was done by Hayley Mathews of West Indies against Sri Lanka in 2018. Mathews scored 62 runs and took three wickets in that match. After this, South Africa’s Suni Luus achieved this feat by taking 61 runs and three wickets against Thailand in 2020.

how was the match

Batting first in this match, the Indian team scored 209 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. Apart from Mandhana and Shefali, Richa Ghosh contributed 20 runs and Jemimah Rodrigues contributed 19 runs. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur scored 12 runs and Deepti Sharma scored 10 runs. Caroline de Lange took the top wicket for the Netherlands with 2 for 32 in 4 overs, while Mirth van den Raad, Heather Segers and Iris Zwilling also took one wicket each.

Netherlands’ batting failed

In reply to India’s 209 runs, Netherlands batted very poorly. Captain Babette de Lied scored the highest 28 runs for the team. Heather Segers contributed 21 runs, while Ster Kallis contributed 18 runs. Apart from these three, the entire batting line-up of Netherlands looked weak. In the bowling department, Shefali Verma took three wickets for Team India, while Shri Charani took four wickets for 19 runs in four overs. Nandini Sharma took two wickets, while Deepti took one wicket.