Womens World Cup IND-W vs PAK-W: No handshake coverage adopted by India Women at toss as Pakistan opts to bowl

On anticipated traces, India captain Harmanpreet Kaur didn’t shake arms along with her Pakistan counterpart Fatima Sana throughout the toss for the Women’s World Cup fixture, sustaining the pattern set by the lads’s staff in Asia Cup.

The BCCI had conveyed the gamers to keep away from customary handshake with members of the Pakistani staff.

Mel Jones carried out the toss and each the captains maintained their distance throughout the ceremony.

Pakistan received the toss and elected to subject.

India, who take pleasure in an 11-0 file over Pakistan within the ODI format, made a pressured change to their taking part in eleven with Renuka Singh changing an injured Amanjot Kaur.

Pakistan changed Omaima Sohali with Sadaf Shamas.

In the not too long ago concluded males’s Asia Cup, all three video games between India and Pakistan befell in a hostile atmosphere. India gamers didn’t shake arms earlier than or after the sport with the opposition.

Champions India additionally refused to take the Asia Cup trophy from ACC president Mohsin Naqvi, who occurs to be Pakistan Cricket Board chief and an inside minister within the authorities with a pronounced anti-India political place.

The hostilities between the 2 neighbours are at an all-time excessive after the Pahalgam terror assault through which 26 Indian vacationers had been gunned down by Pakistan-backed terrorists.

India had subsequently launched a navy motion beneath ‘Operation Sindoor’ to dismantle terror infrastructure throughout the border.

Teams:

Pakistan Women: Muneeba Ali, Sadaf Shamas, Sidra Amin, Rameen Shamim, Aliya Riaz, Sidra Nawaz (wk), Fatima Sana(c), Natalia Pervaiz, Diana Baig, Nashra Sandhu, Sadia Iqbal.

India Women: 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.