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The Indian team has made a great start in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026. Team India has shown that it is ready this time by defeating Pakistan and Netherlands by a huge margin. Harmanpreet Kaur Brigade now has to face South Africa. This match is to be played in Manchester on Sunday (21 June). If the Indian team overcomes the challenge of South Africa, it will almost ensure its place in the semi-finals.

The South African team lost to Australia by 65 runs. After this he had to struggle to win from Pakistan. Its batsmen have not appeared in form. Team India would like to take advantage of this. The pace bowling unit of the Indian team has also been strengthened with the arrival of Nandini Sharma in the playing XI. Nandani made her T20 World Cup debut against Netherlands, taking 2 wickets for 22 runs. He got a chance to replace Arundhati Reddy, which he capitalized on well.

Nandani dominates on T20 International debut

Nandani, who comes from Chandigarh, was selected in Team India’s World Cup squad without playing any international match. He made his T20 International debut against England at Chelmsford just before this tournament. Nandani had given away 15 runs in her second over. After this, he made a comeback with a bang and played an important role in helping India win by 38 runs by taking 3 wickets for 11 runs in the next 2 overs. This 24 year old player performed impressively in her first international match.

Why are there so many expectations from Nandani?

The Indian women’s team has been struggling with the shortage of death overs specialists for a long time in the shorter formats. Nandani can fill this void. His back-of-the-hand slower ball baffles even the best batsmen. She proved herself as a death overs specialist while playing for Delhi Capitals (DC) in the Women’s Premier League (WPL) earlier this year. His economy (7.69) was the second best among bowlers who bowled at least 5 overs in the death overs in WPL 2026.

He shone in this WPL season by bowling brilliantly and taking 17 wickets in 10 matches. She was jointly on top in terms of taking the most wickets in the tournament. Due to the difference of 0.03 in the economy rate, the purple cap went to him rather than to Sophie Devine.

How are Nandani’s T20I stats?

Nandini has played 4 T20I matches so far, in which she has taken 6 wickets at an average of 20.66 and an economy rate of 8.85. He is in direct competition with Arundhati Reddy for a place in the team. Arundhati bats a little in the lower order, due to which she is given preference, but now the team management will have to think a lot before leaving out a bowler like Nandini in important matches.

India’s squad for T20 World Cup:Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shefali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Dipti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh, Kranti Goud, Sri Charni, Bharti Phulmali, Yastika Bhatia (wicketkeeper), Nandini Sharma, Radha Yadav, Prema Rawat.