Women’s Cricket World Cup: India Women vs Pakistan Women in Colombo on October 5, 2025

On anticipated traces, India captain Harmanpreet Kaur didn’t shake arms together with her Pakistan counterpart Fatima Sana through the toss for the Women’s World Cup fixture, sustaining the development set by the boys’s workforce in Asia Cup.

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

Mel Jones performed the toss and each the captains maintained their distance through the ceremony.

Pakistan gained the toss and elected to area.

India, who get pleasure from an 11-0 report over Pakistan in the ODI format, made a pressured change to their enjoying 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 in the federal government with a pronounced anti-India political place.

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

India had subsequently launched a navy motion underneath ‘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.