India 109 for 3 (Mandhana 45, Shafali, Syeda 2-9) beat Pakistan 108 (Sidra 25, Deepti 3-20, Renuka 2-14, Shreyanka 2-14, Vastrakar 2-31) by seven wickets

Vastrakar's short-ball display

Shafali, Mandhana's power play

Pakistan toiled to get their line and length right and, as a result, gave away boundaries through both over-pitched and short deliveries. Shafali brought up the first of six fours with a flick to square leg in the first over. Short balls from left-arm spinner Sadia Iqbal were cut away through covers and pulled through midwicket. She also punished fast bowler Fatima Sana with two fours in her second over, the fifth overall, to race to 35 off 22 at the end of the powerplay.

Mandhana, who was in top form in the home series against South Africa before this, played cover drives with elegance and punched off the backfoot to find boundaries. After a boundary-less seventh over, she hammered five fours off legspinner Tuba Hassan, going from 23 off 20 to 43 off 26. She fell five short of a 25th T20I fifty, dismissed by another legspinner Syed Aroob Shah, caught by Aliya Riaz at short midwicket in the tenth over.

Shafali did her thing for 29 balls, making 40, before being bowled by Syeda, who was the most effective Pakistan bowler with 2 for 9 in her three overs. India strolled home not long after.

Pakistan's collapse, and Deepti's comeback

At the end of ten overs, Pakistan were 53 for 3, with Sidra Amin batting on 24 off 30 and Nida Dar on a run-a-ball 4. There were no demons in the surface though, and the spinners were not getting much turn either. Pakistan needed their captain to hang on and stitch together one big partnership, but it didn't happen.

It went from bad to worse for Pakistan when Renuka picked up two in two, dismissing Sidra for a 35-ball 25 and then trapping Iram Javed lbw first ball to leave Pakistan reeling at 61 for 6 in the 13th over. Tuba and Sana showed some fight, notching up 22 runs apiece, but it wasn't enough.

Deepti's final over gave India three more wickets which included a run-out effected by Radha Yadav with an excellent throw at the striker's end. Deepti's excellent comeback meant she returned figures of 20 for 3 to claim the Player of the Match award.