Australia v India: Women’s T20 World Cup – live

Published 28 June 2026 · sports

35s ago 14.36 BST 1st over: India 3-0 (Mandhana 2, Verma 1) The left-arm of Lucy Hamilton gets us going. Couple of dots to begin

35s ago 14.36 BST 1st over: India 3-0 (Mandhana 2, Verma 1) The left-arm of Lucy Hamilton gets us going. Couple of dots to begin with, before Hamilton gets a bit straight to give Mandhana her first run. The final ball of the over sees an inside edge almost go back on to the stumps but an otherwise tidy start all round. Share 8m ago 14.29 BST Right, let’s get cracking. Australia with ball in hand. Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma stride out to the middle. Email me here to get involved in the conversation. Share 12m ago 14.25 BST Lord’s is close to capacity and looking a picture. The teams are readying themselves for the anthems. The stands are a sea of blue with a smattering of yellow kicking about. This is a proper fixture. Can’t wait. Share 15m ago 14.22 BST A hellish three hours await for South Africa. The Proteas beat Bangladesh in the first leg of today’s double-header at Lord’s. And now will sit and watch hoping that Australia will get the job done to send the Saffas through to the semis. “Australia have this in the bag,” is the word from Laura Wolvaardt in her post-match presser.

Share 19m ago 14.18 BST Australia’s Nicola Carey: “Everyone’s contributed. Huge game against India. The crowd gets right behind them. No doubt about an India heavy crowd.” Share 22m ago 14.15 BST An early confession. I did a lie to you earlier. I said a narrow defeat for India can still they them go through. Categorically false. India are on six points. South Africa are on eight. So a defeat for India obviously still leaves them on fewer points than the Proteas. Not my finest mathematical moment. Share 25m ago 14.12 BST Australia XI Australia: Beth Mooney (+), Georgia Voll, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Ash Gardner, Georgia Wareham, Annabel Sutherland, Nicola Carey, Sophie Molineux (c), Kim Garth, Lucy Hamilton Share 28m ago 14.09 BST India XI India: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Richa Ghosh (+), Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Shree Charani, Kranti Gaud, Renuka Singh Share 31m ago 14.06 BST Changes for both sides. Just the one for India as Kranti Gaud come back for Nandani Sharma. And a big change for Australia, as Alana King misses out and is replaced by Phoebe Litchfield. Share 32m ago 14.04 BST India win the toss and bat Harmanpreet Kaur calls correctly and chooses to have a bat.

“Today’s the game just to enjoy ourselves,” is the message from the Indian skipper. Sophie Molineux says if she’d won the toss Australia would have had a bowl anyway. So everyone’s happy. Share 36m ago 14.01 BST Slightly delayed toss here at Lord’s after the South Africa and Bangladesh game went down to the wire. Will have news with you as soon as we get it. Sun’s out. I’d have a bat. Share 44m ago 13.53 BST Attention switches to the main event now. Australia are four from four and been dominant throughout. Their margins of victory have been 65 runs, nine wickets, 98 runs and 113 runs so far this comp. So they’ve gone alright… India have had three comfortable victories, but lost in a thriller to South Africa. South Africa’s net-run-rate is 0.633. India’s is 2.268. So there’s even a world where a narrow defeat for India today will still be enough to go through. I’ll the need the assistance of some scientists to understand what that means in runs and wickets though. Share Updated at 13.55 BST 53m ago 13.43 BST South Africa win by four wickets! Turns out it was as simple as that. Two balls were all that were required for South Africa to get the five runs needed.