T20 World Cup: The excitement on the field of ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 has reached its peak. The defending champion New Zealand women’s cricket team, which came to defend the title, has finally tasted its victory in the points table of the tournament. The start of the Kiwi team, which suffered crushing defeats in the first two matches against West Indies and Sri Lanka, was very disappointing. Even in its third match played against Ireland, New Zealand had to fight hard to win. In this breath-taking, very close match, the Kiwi team saved its honor by defeating Ireland by just 4 runs. However, despite this only win, the path to the semi-finals is still full of thorns for the New Zealand team and their path ahead looks very difficult.
Group B adventure
Even after defeating Ireland, the New Zealand team has not been able to rise above the fourth position in Group B of the points table. Scotland, West Indies and England remain above them in this group. The Scotland team has so far played two matches in this Mahakumbh, in one of which they got a spectacular victory, while they had to face defeat in a close match against the West Indies. Scotland remains at third position due to better net run rate. At the same time, the strong England team is ruling at the first position and the West Indies team is ruling at the second position. According to the rules, only the top two teams of this group will qualify for the semi-finals. New Zealand’s next two matches will be against big teams like Scotland and England, where even a small mistake will take them out of the tournament.
Latest Group B stats: Who stands where?
The England team has played 2 matches, won both and has 4 points with a net run rate of 2.763.
West Indies team has also played 2 matches and won both and scored 4 points with a net run rate of +0.233.
Scotland team is in third place with 2 points at a run rate of +0.825 with 1 win and 1 loss in 2 matches.
The New Zealand team has played 3 matches, out of which it has won 1 and lost 2, and its run rate is -0.063 with which it has 2 points.
Sri Lankan team is at fifth position with 2 points in 2 matches with 1 win and 1 loss at a run rate of -2.040.
The Irish team is at the bottom sixth position without any points after losing all its three matches.
Team India’s glory in Group-A
On the other hand, if we talk about Group-A, then there is complete dominance of the Indian women’s cricket team and the Australian team. Till now no one has been able to defeat both the legendary teams in this tournament. The Indian team had defeated arch-rival Pakistan in its very first match, after which in the second match they defeated the Netherlands. At the same time, the Australian team has demonstrated its strength by defeating South Africa and Bangladesh. However, due to the excellent net run rate, our team India is at the top position in the points table, while Australia is at the second position.
Big match with South Africa today
The next big match of the Indian team is to be against South Africa on 21st June. If Harmanpreet Kaur’s army completes its hat-trick of victories by winning this match, then their place in the semi-finals will be almost confirmed. After this, India has to play two more matches against Bangladesh and Australia in the league stage.
In this group, India is on top with 4 points with 2 wins in 2 matches and an excellent run rate of 3.975. Australia also has 4 points with 2 wins in 2 matches, but its run rate is 3.875. The teams of South Africa and Bangladesh remain at third and fourth position respectively with 2-2 points, while the teams of Pakistan and Netherlands are still waiting for their first points.