By Admin 
The Indian team lost in the warm-up match before the match against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup 2026. While chasing 172 runs, India’s star batsman flopped, but Richa Ghosh kept fighting till the end. 38 runs were needed from 12 balls, then it seemed that the England team would easily win this match but India’s hopes were raised when EC Wong scored 21 runs in the 19th over.
In the 19th over, Richa Ghosh hit 2 fours and 1 six, one four coming from the bat of Shri Charni. 17 runs were needed in the last over. Charni took one run on the first ball and gave the strike to Richa, she hit a four on the second ball and a six on the third ball, taking India to the threshold of victory. Now only 6 runs were needed from 3 balls, India was close to victory but then lost.
Team India limited to 166
Now 6 runs were needed from the last 3 balls, Richa Ghosh was on strike. On the fourth ball, Richa Ghosh wanted to hit over cover, she moved forward and Linsey Smith threw the ball outside the off stump. The batsman missed and the wicketkeeper stumped him without any mistake. On the fifth ball, Renuka Singh tried to make room and play over cover, but was caught out. This catch of Charlie Dean was amazing. This was the 10th wicket of the Indian innings, in this warm-up match Team India lost by 5 runs.
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Richa Ghosh played a brilliant innings
However, the positive thing in this warm-up match was that the excellent form of middle order batsman Richa Ghosh was seen, in a pressure situation she played an explosive inning of 68 runs in 36 balls. In this he hit 2 sixes and 9 fours. However, flop performance was seen from the top order batsmen.
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Openers Smriti Mandhana got out after scoring 1 and Shefali Verma after scoring 13 runs. Yastika Bhatia scored 15 runs and captain Harmanpreet Kaur scored 15 runs. Earlier, batting first, England had scored 171 runs in 20 overs.