{"id":87568,"date":"2025-10-05T11:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=87568"},"modified":"2025-10-05T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:14:16","slug":"icc-womens-world-cup-2025-pakistan-india-to-lock-horns-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/icc-womens-world-cup-2025-pakistan-india-to-lock-horns-today\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Women\u2019s World Cup 2025: Pakistan &#038; India to lock horns today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"344\" data-end=\"546\">COLOMBO: The cricket rivalry between Pakistan and India will take centre stage today as the two teams go head-to-head in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/interim-icc-womens-cricket-world-cup-2025-schedule-unveiled\/\">ICC Women\u2019s World Cup 2025<\/a> at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>However, the high-stakes contest faces an added challenge \u2013 persistent rain that could affect the game. According to the weather forecast, there is a possibility of rain before the match, with intermittent showers expected to continue throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan women\u2019s team had planned a training session on Saturday to improve their preparations for the crucial match, but the session had to be cancelled due to heavy rain in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>To prepare for the match, the squad conducted an indoor practice session, where the players focused on batting and bowling drills in the nets. The players also completed a physical fitness routine indoors under the supervision of head coach Mohammad Wasim and his coaching team.<\/p>\n<h2 data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">India Maintains Dominant Lead in ODI<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1349\" data-end=\"1548\">If history is any indicator, India hold a dominant record over Pakistan in women\u2019s one-day internationals. The two teams have met 11 times in ODIs, with India winning all 11 encounters.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1550\" data-end=\"1702\">The most recent face-off took place on March 6, 2022, in New Zealand during the last Women\u2019s World Cup, where India triumphed by 107 runs.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"1709\" data-end=\"1760\">Mixed starts for both teams<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1762\" data-end=\"1999\">In their opening matches of the ICC Women\u2019s World Cup 2025, the two sides experienced contrasting fortunes. Pakistan suffered defeat against Bangladesh, while India began their campaign with a convincing win over Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2001\" data-end=\"2194\">This adds extra pressure on Pakistan to bounce back and keep their semifinal hopes alive, while India will aim to maintain momentum and extend their unbeaten streak against their arch-rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: The cricket rivalry between Pakistan and India will take centre stage today as the two teams go head-to-head in the ICC Women\u2019s World Cup 2025 at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. However, the high-stakes contest faces an added challenge \u2013 persistent rain that could affect the game. According to the weather forecast, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31513,139,138],"class_list":["post-87568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-icc-womens-world-cup-2025","tag-india","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87569,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87568\/revisions\/87569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}