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India\u2019s women\u2019s team kicked off their Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 campaign in style. On June 14th at Edgbaston in Birmingham, they faced Pakistan and started strong, batting first and putting up 170 runs. Smriti Mandhana played a standout innings, with Harmanpreet Kaur and Richa Ghosh adding valuable runs as well.<\/p>\n
But really, it was Deepti Sharma\u2019s performance that grabbed everyone\u2019s attention. She didn\u2019t get many runs with the bat, but with the ball, she tore through Pakistan\u2019s lineup, picking up five wickets while giving away just 10 runs.<\/p>\n
This spell put Deepti Sharma at the top of the all-time wickets chart in WT20I cricket\u2014her fifth wicket took her tally to 166, moving her past Thailand\u2019s Thipatcha Putthawong, who has 165. Thanks to Deepti\u2019s magic, India restricted Pakistan to just 106 and won the game easily.<\/p>\n
Deepti earned the Player of the Match award for her five-wicket haul. After the match, she stood in the spotlight, sharing her thoughts. She said she was thankful for the team and credited her performance to God as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very grateful. I like these kind of wickets, all credit goes to the team and I am very grateful, Hanuman Ji is great. I like ICC tournaments \u2013 I think, from there I started, so I like it. (What was the key to bowling on this surface today?) I think because it\u2019s turning, so I am varied my pace in every ball and every over. That helped me a lot. Yeah, because it\u2019s turning, so I just believed that I have to bowl a little bit slower in the air and just believing in myself and bowling in the right areas. That\u2019s what I was doing,\u201d Deepti Sharma said after the game.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n