Asia Cup 2018: Twitter erupts as India Women defeat Pakistan Women comprehensively

The India Women versus the Pakistan Women game was the most anticipated game in the Womens Asia Cup T20 2018. The fans had to wait long for this game since this was scheduled on the last day of the league stages of the tournament. Moreover, what was more exciting is that this was a do or die game for both the teams which made it more interesting.

Both India Women and Pakistan Women had six points each before this game commenced. Since it is quite obvious that Bangladesh Women would win against a much weaker Malaysia Women, the winner of this game would make it to the final. Pakistan never defeated India in the Asia Cup thus far and this record will stand for some more time.

Bowlers and Harmanpreet Kaur ensure that India Women win the game

This game was a high-pressure game for both the sides. In this must-win game, Pakistan Women opted to bat first after winning the toss. However, this decision didn’t pay great dividends for them. India Women were absolutely ruthless with the ball. They dismissed the inform Pakistani openers and skipper Maroof to restrict Pakistan to a small total.

Pakistan Women only managed to score 72 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in their quota of 20 overs. Sana Mir was the leading run-scorer with 20 runs. Ekta Bisht picked 3 wickets. Chasing this small total, India Women were struck with huge blows initially. Skipper Mithali Raj was dismissed for a duck. Furthermore, Deepti Sharma who came in at No 3 was also dismissed for a duck and the team was down to 5/2 within the third over.

However, Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur kept their cool to help India get a 7-wicket win in the game. While Mandhana scored 38, Kaur stayed there till the end scoring 34 and she also hit the winning four. Ekta Bisht was the ‘Player of the Match’. Twitterati was overjoyed as India progressed to the final and shared their happiness on the micro-blogging site.

Here is how Twitterati reacted to India’s win against Pakistan:

India women beat Pakistan women by 7 wkts (23 balls to spare) at Kuala Lumpur in the final group match of the #WomensAsiaCup2018
Pak 72/7 (20 ov) – Ekta Bisht 3/14 (4)
Ind 75/3 (16.1 ov) – Smriti Mandhana 38 (40)

— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) June 9, 2018

Most wickets for India in T20i (Men/Women):

56 Jhulan Goswami
52 Ravichandran Ashwin
50 Ekta Bisht
46 Poonam Yadav
41 Jasprit Bumrah#WAC2018 #INDvPAK

— Usama🏏🏏Jahangir (@usamajahangir29) June 9, 2018

It's very surprising to see no mention about #IndvPak match played between @BCCIWomen & @TheRealPCB women team on my twitter timeline
There was no telecast of this match..but so called cricket pundits, journalist who boast about women empowerment, seems uninterested in this..

— Psycho-Cricketer (@PsychoCricketer) June 9, 2018

@mandhana_smriti well played against Pakistan #INDvPAK. Congrats for Road to the Final. Good Luck For Final.

— Naveen Roy (@naveenroy1) June 9, 2018

6 time Asia Cup winners India 🇮🇳 into the final after the win over Pakistan.#INDvPAK

— Sunil kumar (@TweetsOfSunil) June 9, 2018

And @BCCIWomen continue to make it big on International stages. Congratulations Indian team on a thumping victory over Pakistan by 7 wickets to reach Women's Asia Cup final.#INDvPAK #WAC2018 #AsiaCup pic.twitter.com/S6pkjjKzTT

— Sunil Deodhar (@Sunil_Deodhar) June 9, 2018

After CT Final , India beat Pakistan 3 times ( Women WC , Blind WC and U19 WC ) in cricket and 7 times in other sports but Pakistan is still celebrating CT Final win , its happened when an ordinary team beat world best team once in years !#INDvPAK

— Bhupesh Dave (@Bhupesh_live) June 9, 2018

All the other teams fight against each other just to be the runners up against India in the finals. Story of WAC thus far. #INDvPAK

— SANATH 🏏 (@Dude_Cricket) June 9, 2018

Its really sad to see that Neither any channel telecasted #INDvPAK nor people are excited about this match ! Now imagine if our girls lost then all genius might came for lecture !

— Bhupesh Dave (@Bhupesh_live) June 9, 2018

A calm and composed innings by SMRITI MANDHANA as she scores 38 runs (40 balls) after initial hiccups brought India this victory 😍😘 #SmritiMandhana @mandhana_smriti #INDvPAK pic.twitter.com/NGmCZLio4M

— Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) June 9, 2018

Asia cup played so far- 6

Won by India- 6 #IndvPak #IndwvPakw

— Prince Pandey 🇮🇳 (@yajkushal20) June 9, 2018

So if Bangladesh defeat Malaysia today, which is surely going to happen, India will face Bangladesh in the #Asiacup2018 finals.

Remember Bangladesh is the only team to defeat India in the league stages. Its gonna be a good game.#INDvPAK #IndWvPakW

— DV 🏏🇮🇳 (@deepakv712) June 9, 2018

Team India is entering into the Asia Cup Final for 7 consecutive times. And icing on the cake is they beat Pakistan to enter this year's final.🇮🇳😇Totally dominating this tournament! #INDvPAK #AsiaCup

— Jessy Rajkumari (@imJR_4) June 9, 2018