India vs Pakistan women’s head-to-head record, and what it says about Saturday in Dubai
India have won 26 of the 29 women’s internationals between the two. Pakistan’s three wins came by a combined 16 runs, and that is the more useful number before Saturday’s Women’s Asia Cup meeting.
Sep 3, 2026
India and Pakistan meet at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Saturday 5 September, 8pm IST, in the Group A match that decides who tops the group at the Women’s Asia Cup. The head-to-head going in is lopsided: India have won 14 of the 17 T20 internationals between the two, and all 12 of the one-day internationals. What that record hides is how close Pakistan have come on the rare occasions they have won.
India vs Pakistan women’s head-to-head record
| Format | Played | India won | Pakistan won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women’s T20 internationals | 17 | 14 | 3 |
| Women’s one-day internationals | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| Total | 29 | 26 | 3 |
The two have never played a women’s Test. Pakistan have not beaten India in a 50-over match in any of the twelve they have played, going back to 2005, and their three T20 wins are the whole of their record in this fixture.
Pakistan’s three wins add up to 16 runs
This is the number that reframes the head-to-head. Pakistan have beaten India three times in seventeen T20 internationals, and the combined margin of those three wins is sixteen runs.
| Date | Venue | Margin |
|---|---|---|
| 1 October 2012 | Galle | 1 run |
| 19 March 2016 | Delhi | 2 runs (D/L) |
| 7 October 2022 | Sylhet | 13 runs |
Two of the three were as tight as the margins suggest. At Galle in 2012 Pakistan made 98 for 9 and India finished on 97 for 8. In Delhi in 2016 rain cut the chase short and Pakistan came out two runs ahead on Duckworth-Lewis. Only Sylhet was won at any distance.
India’s fourteen wins do not look like that at all. Seven of them came by seven wickets or more, and the most recent was by 64 runs. So the fixture has produced two distinct kinds of match: the ones India win at a canter, and the ones Pakistan win on the last ball. There is almost no middle.
The Sylhet result in 2022 is the outlier, and it remains Pakistan’s only Asia Cup win over India. It is also their most recent win of any kind in this fixture. India have won the four meetings since.
Every T20I meeting, result by result
| Date | Venue | Winner | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Jun 2026 | Birmingham | India | 64 runs |
| 6 Oct 2024 | Dubai | India | 6 wickets |
| 19 Jul 2024 | Dambulla | India | 7 wickets |
| 12 Feb 2023 | Cape Town | India | 7 wickets |
| 7 Oct 2022 | Sylhet | Pakistan | 13 runs |
| 31 Jul 2022 | Birmingham | India | 8 wickets |
| 11 Nov 2018 | Providence | India | 7 wickets |
| 9 Jun 2018 | Kuala Lumpur | India | 7 wickets |
| 4 Dec 2016 | Bangkok | India | 17 runs |
| 29 Nov 2016 | Bangkok | India | 5 wickets |
| 19 Mar 2016 | Delhi | Pakistan | 2 runs |
| 2 Apr 2014 | Sylhet | India | 6 runs |
| 31 Oct 2012 | Guangzhou | India | 18 runs |
| 28 Oct 2012 | Guangzhou | India | 8 wickets |
| 1 Oct 2012 | Galle | Pakistan | 1 run |
| 8 May 2010 | Basseterre | India | 9 wickets |
| 13 Jun 2009 | Taunton | India | 5 wickets |
The one to look at hardest is 6 October 2024, because it was played at this ground. India chased in Dubai and won by six wickets.
The last meeting was three months ago
India and Pakistan opened their ICC Women’s T20 World Cup campaigns against each other at Edgbaston on 14 June. India made 170 for 6, Smriti Mandhana top-scoring with 68 and Richa Ghosh hitting 34 from 17 balls at the death. Pakistan were bowled out for 106 in 17 overs. Deepti Sharma took 5 for 10.
Muneeba Ali made 41 of those 106, which is the pattern of this fixture from Pakistan’s side: one batter holds an end and the innings falls over around her.
What both sides have done in this tournament
India have played twice and won twice, and the second was emphatic. They beat Thailand by 94 runs on 30 August, though the batting wobbled from 91 for 2 to 159 for 9 before the bowlers made it moot. On Thursday they made 193 for 5 against Hong Kong and won by 137, with Mandhana scoring 124 from 64 balls with 14 fours and seven sixes, and Deepti taking 3 for 9. India were the first side to qualify for the semi-finals.
Pakistan have played once. They beat Thailand by 35 runs on 1 September, having been held to 119 for 9 themselves. Muneeba Ali made 54 from 52 and Sadia Iqbal’s 4-1-11-3 took the game away in the second over of the chase. Fatima Sana’s side won without ever looking comfortable with the bat.
That is the gap in a sentence. India have posted 159 and 193. Pakistan have posted 119.
What Dubai has been doing this week
Group A has produced eight completed innings, and only one of them has passed 160: India’s 193 on Thursday. The other seven are 159, 120, 119, 114, 84, 65 and 56. Whatever India did to Hong Kong, this has otherwise been a surface where 120 is a working total and spin has held the middle overs.
That matters for Saturday more than the head-to-head does. Pakistan’s route to an upset in this fixture has always been a low-scoring game they can squeeze, and Dubai in early September is the sort of ground that could give them one. Sadia Iqbal and Nashra Sandhu bowling to a target of 130 is a different proposition from Sadia Iqbal bowling to a target of 190.
What could decide it
India are without Jemimah Rodrigues, who tore a hamstring before the tournament, and the middle order has not had to do much yet. Against Thailand it collapsed; against Hong Kong it was never needed, because Mandhana made the game safe on her own. Pakistan will be the first side in this tournament capable of removing Mandhana and Shafali Verma early, and India’s answer to that question is still unwritten.
Deepti Sharma is the other thing. She took 5 for 10 against Pakistan at Edgbaston in June, 3 for 0 against Thailand in her 150th T20I, and 3 for 9 on Thursday. The Thailand match made her the leading wicket-taker in the history of women’s T20 internationals. If the pitch does what it has done all week, she likely bowls in the middle overs with the game in the balance, which is where Pakistan have historically lost this fixture.
On form and on record, India should win. The honest caveat is that the three times Pakistan have won, nobody saw it coming either, and each of those was decided by a margin small enough that a single over changed it. A low-scoring Dubai night is exactly the shape of game that has produced Pakistan’s three wins. It would not be a surprise if this one were closer than the 137-run margin from Thursday suggests.
Quick answers
What is the India vs Pakistan women’s head-to-head record? India lead 14-3 in T20 internationals and 12-0 in one-day internationals, which is 26-3 across the 29 matches the two have played.
Has Pakistan Women ever beaten India Women? Three times, all in T20 internationals: by one run at Galle in 2012, by two runs in Delhi in 2016 and by 13 runs at Sylhet in 2022. They have never won a one-day international against India.
When do India and Pakistan play in the Women’s Asia Cup 2026? Saturday 5 September at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, 8pm IST.
Who won the last India vs Pakistan women’s match? India, by 64 runs at Birmingham on 14 June 2026 in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.
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