India Women’s National Cricket Team Vs West Indies Women Match Scorecard: India Win a T20 World Cup Warm-up by 26 Runs

Deandra Dottin and Shemaine Campbelle put on 63 for West Indies Women’s first wicket. For a few overs, chasing 180 looked entirely plausible.

Then India’s spinners took over. Three wickets fell for just 18 runs, and the chase never recovered even though a late flurry from the tail made the final margin look tighter than the match actually was.

This India Women’s National Cricket Team vs West Indies Women match scorecard covers the 5th Match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Warm-up Matches 2026 at Cardiff. It was only a warm-up game, but it gave both sides a genuinely useful preview of what they’ll need to fix or repeat once the tournament begins.

Match in 30 Seconds

Detail	Match information
Match	5th Match, ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Warm-up Matches 2026
Venue	Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Date	8 June 2026
Toss	West Indies Women won the toss and elected to field first
India Women score	179/8 in 20 overs
West Indies Women score	153/8 in 20 overs
Result	India Women won by 26 runs
Standout performers	Bharti Fulmali — 56* (40) for India; Shreyanka Patil — 4/36

The one-line story: Bharti Fulmali’s unbeaten 56 pushed India to a genuinely strong 179/8, and although Dottin and Campbelle gave West Indies a promising start in the chase, India’s spin pairing of Shreyanka Patil and Radha Yadav closed the door with seven combined wickets.

What people think is that a 26-run margin in a 20-over match suggests a comfortable, one-sided contest throughout.

The reality is more layered: West Indies were 63/0 and genuinely in the contest before India’s spinners took control the final margin reflects the second half of the chase, not the whole story.

India Women’s National Cricket Team vs West Indies Women Match Scorecard

India Women’s innings: 179/8 in 20 overs

Batter	Runs	Balls	Notable detail
Smriti Mandhana	39	23	Set the tone at the top of the order
Bharti Fulmali*	56	40	Unbeaten, anchored the innings through the middle overs
Total	179/8	20 overs

West Indies bowling

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets	Economy
Afy Fletcher	4	23	4	5.75
Aaliyah Alleyne	2	17	1	8.50

West Indies Women’s innings: 153/8 in 20 overs

Batter	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	Dismissal
Deandra Dottin	49	44	—	—	lbw
Shemaine Campbelle	25	22	—	—	retired out
Q Joseph	5	4	—	—	bowled
J Claxton	6	4	—	—	caught
A Alleyne	13	7	—	—	caught
C Henry	1	2	—	—	caught
J Glasgow	19	18	—	—	caught
Zaida James	1	2	—	—	bowled
Shawnisha Hector	19	11	—	—	not out
Afy Fletcher	7	6	—	—	not out
Extras	8	—	—	—	1 b, 7 w
Total	153/8	20 overs

Fall of wickets: 63/1 (Dottin’s stand ends, following Campbelle’s retirement), 75/2 (Q Joseph), 81/3 (J Claxton), 97/4 (A Alleyne), 102/5 (C Henry), 103/6 (J Glasgow), 113/7 (Zaida James), 144/8 (S Hector).

India bowling figures

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets	Economy
Shafali Verma	2	9	0	4.50
Renuka Singh	4	30	0	7.50
K Gaud	4	43	0	10.75
Shree Charani	2	9	0	4.50
Radha Yadav	4	25	3	6.25
Shreyanka Patil	4	36	4	9.00

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Highlights and Key Moments

1. Mandhana’s brisk start and Fulmali’s finishing innings

Smriti Mandhana’s 39 off 23 balls gave India exactly the platform they wanted, before Bharti Fulmali took over and anchored the innings through to 179/8 with an unbeaten 56 off 40 balls.

What most people miss: Mandhana and Fulmali played genuinely different roles rather than simply “both batting well.” Mandhana’s job was tempo-setting in the powerplay; Fulmali’s was converting that platform into a defendable total through the middle overs, when Afy Fletcher’s 4/23 threatened to slow India down significantly.

2. Dottin and Campbelle’s promising 63-run opening stand

West Indies began their chase strongly, with Deandra Dottin and Shemaine Campbelle putting on 63 for the first wicket. Campbelle was retired out during this stand, a tactical decision that briefly disrupted the momentum before India’s bowlers capitalised fully.

Counterintuitive point: a promising opening stand followed by a voluntary retirement is an unusual passage of play. Whatever the tactical reasoning, the disruption to West Indies’ rhythm at exactly this point coincided with India’s spinners beginning to assert control timing that mattered more than the retirement decision itself.

3. The three-wickets-for-18-runs window that ended the chase

After the promising start, West Indies lost three wickets for just 18 runs, sliding from 63/1 to 81/3. Shreyanka Patil and Radha Yadav were central to this collapse, combining for wickets that turned a competitive chase into a genuine uphill battle.

This is where things go wrong for a chasing side that started well: a strong opening stand creates false security if the middle order isn’t prepared for a sudden shift in bowling pressure. West Indies’ batters who followed Dottin and Campbelle were not able to immediately adjust to the turn and control India’s spinners were offering.

4. A late flurry that made the margin look closer than it was

Shawnisha Hector’s unbeaten 19 off 11 and a small partnership with the lower order pushed West Indies from a heavier-looking defeat to a final score of 153/8 a 26-run margin that undersells how comfortably India controlled the middle overs of the chase.

Bold opinion: final margins in T20 cricket can be genuinely misleading when a chasing side’s tail hits out after the game is already decided. Readers judging this result purely by “26 runs” without looking at the phase-by-phase breakdown would significantly underestimate how in-control India actually were for most of the second innings.

Player Performance Breakdown

Bharti Fulmali: the innings that built a defendable total

Fulmali’s unbeaten 56 off 40 balls was the difference between a good total and a genuinely defendable one. She batted through the innings’ most difficult phase, when Afy Fletcher’s disciplined bowling had slowed India’s scoring rate.

Original observation: Fulmali’s role in this innings is a useful reminder that “finishing” in T20 cricket doesn’t always mean explosive late hitting. Her value came from simply staying at the crease and rotating strike while wickets fell around her the least glamorous, most necessary job in a batting innings under pressure.

Smriti Mandhana: setting the tone at the top

Mandhana’s 39 off 23 balls gave India’s innings early tempo. As India’s vice-captain, she has spoken publicly about the responsibility she and Shafali Verma carry at the top of the order heading into the World Cup, and this innings reflected exactly that kind of front-foot intent.

Practical lesson for opening batters: a 23-ball 39 doesn’t need to be a match-defining score to be valuable its real function was removing pressure from the middle order before Fulmali had to play her anchoring role.

Shreyanka Patil and Radha Yadav: India’s spin partnership

Patil’s 4/36 and Yadav’s 3/25 combined for seven of West Indies’ eight wickets. Their partnership worked because they offered genuinely different challenges Yadav’s left-arm angle and Patil’s off-spin variations gave batters no consistent read against India’s middle-overs attack.

Common mistake in analysis: judging Patil’s figures purely by her economy of 9.00, which looks expensive in isolation. Her four wickets, arriving at exactly the moments West Indies needed stability, were far more valuable than a cheap, wicketless spell would have been.

Deandra Dottin: West Indies’ best individual effort

Dottin’s 49 off 44 balls was West Indies’ most substantial individual contribution, anchoring the early stages of the chase before India’s spinners took control in the middle overs.

What people think vs reality: a near-fifty from your most experienced batter often gets read as a sign the team performed well collectively. Here, Dottin’s innings mainly reflected the strength of the platform she and Campbelle built together once she was dismissed, West Indies’ remaining batters could not sustain anything close to the same tempo.

Analysis: Why West Indies Fell Short

A good start that lacked a second act

What people think: a 63-run opening stand while chasing 180 signals a team well-placed to complete the chase.

Reality: West Indies needed either that partnership to continue much longer, or an immediate second partnership of similar scale, to keep pace with the required rate. Instead, the very next phase of the innings produced three wickets for 18 runs the exact opposite of what a strong start should lead to.

India’s middle-overs spin plan

Patil and Yadav’s combined figures reflect a deliberate India tactic: use the middle overs, when West Indies’ batters would otherwise be looking to accelerate, to apply consistent spin pressure from both ends. This match plan directly created the collapse that decided the result.

Bold opinion: India’s bowling attack in this match relied more on collective plan execution than any single standout spell. Four wickets for Patil at an economy above 9 might not look elite on paper, but combined with Yadav’s tighter figures, the pair created a squeeze that no individual bowling card fully captures.

What this warm-up match means for the World Cup proper

Both sides used this fixture explicitly as preparation, with India’s think tank getting a genuine look at how their spin options perform under chase pressure, and West Indies gaining useful data on their middle-order response to turn.

Practical lesson for reading warm-up results: a 26-run margin in a preparation match should be read as evidence of specific tactical patterns India’s spin plan, West Indies’ middle-order vulnerability against turn rather than as a definitive form guide for how either team will perform once the tournament begins.

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Format Guardrail, Records and Tournament Context

Understanding the different India-West Indies Women fixtures

Fixture	Format / competition	Correct use
India Women vs West Indies Women, T20 World Cup Warm-up (this article)	T20I warm-up match, Cardiff, June 2026	This article’s core scorecard
West Indies Women in India, 2024-25	Bilateral T20I series	Separate historical/format-specific article only
India Women vs West Indies Women, T20 World Cup Warm-up 2024	An earlier World Cup cycle’s warm-up fixture	A completely different year and tournament cycle
India Women vs West Indies Women, ICC Women’s T20 World Cup (Cape Town)	2023 T20 World Cup group-stage match	A different tournament, year, and format context entirely

For example, in the 2023 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup group match at Cape Town, India Women beat West Indies Women by 6 wickets, chasing 118 with 119/4, built on Deepti Sharma’s 3/15 and Stafanie Taylor’s 42 for West Indies. These figures belong to an entirely different tournament and year, and must never be presented as part of this 2026 warm-up scorecard.

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