Shafali Verma Record: Shafali Verma’s historic performance in T20 World Cup, created history by making a world record.

New Delhi: With the strong all-round performance of Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma, India has registered its second back to back win in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026. The team defeated Netherlands by 95 runs in its second match. Earlier, India had defeated Pakistan in its opening match. Mandhana played a strong inning of 74 runs in batting for Team India in the match against Netherlands. Apart from Mandhana, Shefali Verma also scored an excellent half-century.

Apart from this half-century innings, Shefali also wreaked havoc in bowling. In bowling, Shefali took 3 wickets for just 20 runs in 3.2 overs. Before that he had played an innings of 55 runs in 38 balls. With this, Shefali made the record of becoming only the third player in the world to take fifty and three wickets in a T20 World Cup match. Before Shefali, this feat was done by Hayley Mathews of West Indies against Sri Lanka in the year 2018. Along with scoring 62 runs, Mathews also took 3 wickets in the match. After him, Sune Luus of South Africa scored 61 and took 3 wickets against Thailand in 2020.

Team India had scored 209 runs in the match.

Whereas, if we talk about this match, Team India, batting first, had scored a huge score of 209 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. Apart from Mandhana and Shefali, Richa Ghosh contributed 20 runs and Jemimah Rodrigues contributed 19 runs in batting for the team. Apart from this, captain Harmanpreet Kaur also scored 12 runs and Deepti Sharma also scored 10 runs. In bowling for Netherlands, Caroline de Lange took the maximum of 2 wickets for 32 runs in 4 overs, while Mirthe van den Raad, Heather Segers and Iris Zwilling also got one wicket each.

Netherlands’ batting was a flop

Netherlands’ batting was very poor in reply to 209 runs against India. Captain Babette de Leede played the highest innings of 28 runs for the team. Apart from this, Heather Seegers contributed 21 runs and Sterre Kallis contributed 18 runs. Apart from these three, the entire batting order of Netherlands looked weak. Whereas in bowling, apart from Shefali Verma taking 3 wickets for Team India, Shri Charani took 4 wickets for 19 runs in 4 overs. At the same time, Nandani Sharma took 2 wickets and Deepti took one wicket.