Pakistan’s Fatima Sana gained the toss and elected to subject on a damp day in Colombo towards the arch-rivals India in each groups’ respective second sport of the Ladies’s World Cup. India had been coming off a win towards the co-hosts Sri Lanka, whereas Pakistan misplaced to Bangladesh.
India and Pakistan captains Harmanpreet Kaur and Fatima Sana maintained distance because the handshake row spilled into the Ladies’s World Cup from the Asia Cup, with the 2 nations taking up one another in cricket matches (women and men) for the final 4 weeks within the aftermath of the cross-border battle in April-Could. Pakistan’s Fatima Sana gained the toss and elected to subject first.
After her chat with the broadcaster Mel Jones, she left from the opposite facet, earlier than Harmanpreet got here as much as Jones for her chat and there was no interplay between the 2 captains within the World Cup match on Sunday, October 5. Each captains wished to subject first contemplating the overcast circumstances in Colombo, however Harmanpreet did not thoughts batting first, taking confidence from how the crew carried out of their event opener towards Sri Lanka.