Pakistan captain Fatima Sana (left) and India’s Harmanpreet Kaur on the toss forward of their ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2025 match on the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on October 5, 2025. — X/TheRealPCBPakistan made one change in Taking part in XI towards India conflict.Skipper Fatima Sana says focus solely on sport.India take pleasure in unbeaten report towards Pakistan in ODIs.
COLOMBO: Pakistan have gained the toss and opted to bowl first towards India within the sixth match of the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025 being performed on the R Premadasa Stadium on Sunday.
Pakistan have made one change to the lineup that misplaced to Bangladesh, with Sadaf Shamas coming in for Omaima Sohail.
On the toss, captain Fatima Sana mentioned: “We are going to bowl first because the weather is dry and the pitch looks good,” she mentioned.
“We have great confidence after the qualifiers, and hopefully, we will play good cricket. Hopefully, on this pitch, 250 would be a good total to defend.”
In the meantime, in a repeat of latest encounters throughout Males’s Asia Cup fixtures, there was as soon as once more no handshake between the captains of the Indian and Pakistani girls’s groups earlier than the match.
Pakistan, India captains stroll previous one another throughout toss at ICC Ladies’s World Cup on October 5, 2025. — Screengrab through Geo Information
Pakistan suffered a large defeat towards Bangladesh of their first encounter of the match, whereas India managed to defeat Sri Lanka within the Ladies’s Cricket World Cup opener.
As we speak’s encounter is prone to be affected by rain, with forecasts predicting intermittent showers all through the day.
Colombo has already seen heavy rainfall lately, and yesterday’s match between Sri Lanka and Australia was known as off as a consequence of persistent showers.
Statistics present that Pakistan have by no means crushed India in girls’s ODIs, with the 2 groups going through one another 11 instances, the place India has emerged victorious on all events.
The match is going down from September 30 to November 2 in India and Sri Lanka, and Pakistan will play all their group-stage matches on the R Premadasa Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Colombo.
If Pakistan advance to the semi-final on October 29 and the ultimate on November 2, each matches can even be held in Colombo.
Taking part in XIs:
Pakistan: Muneeba Ali, Sadaf Shamas, Sidra Amin, Rameen Shamim, Aliya Riaz, Sidra Nawaz (wk), Fatima Sana (c), Natalia Pervaiz, Diana Baig, Nashra Sandhu and Sadia Iqbal.
India: Pratika Rawal, Smriti Mandhana, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Sneh Rana, Renuka Singh Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani.
