# Women\'s Asia Cup 2026 Tracker\: India Start Big\, Sri Lanka Start Fast

> Women\'s Asia Cup 2026 results and fixtures through 30 August\, with analysis of India\'s opening win\, Sri Lanka\'s fast start and the road to India v Pakistan\.

> **Update boundary:** 31 August 2026, 06:30 IST. This tracker includes completed matches through 30 August. Bangladesh–Indonesia, scheduled for 20:00 IST on 31 August, had not begun.

Three matches into the Women's Asia Cup, the margins tell only part of the story.

India opened with a 94-run victory, but Thailand took nine wickets and exposed a middle-order wobble. Defending champions Sri Lanka required fewer than eight overs to complete their first chase. Thailand already have a win and a loss—and their six-run victory over Hong Kong, China means Pakistan cannot treat the 1 September meeting as preparation for India.

This is the tenth edition of the Women's Asia Cup. All 15 matches are T20Is at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Eight teams are split into two groups, with the top two in each reaching the semi-finals. Sri Lanka defend the title they won in 2024; India arrive as seven-time champions.

- **Group A:** India, Pakistan, Thailand, Hong Kong, China
- **Group B:** Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia
- **Semi-finals:** 10 and 11 September
- **Final:** 13 September
- **Scheduled start:** 20:00 IST

## Results so far

| Date | Match | Result | The signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug | Thailand v Hong Kong, China | Thailand 120/9 beat Hong Kong, China 114/7 by 6 runs | Naruemol Chaiwai made 43; Onnicha Kamchomphu took 3/27. |
| 29 Aug | Sri Lanka v UAE | UAE 79; Sri Lanka 80/1 in 7.5 overs | Chamari Athapaththu finished 48 not out from 25 balls. |
| 30 Aug | India v Thailand | India 159/9 beat Thailand 65 by 94 runs | Shafali Verma made 64 from 36; Deepti Sharma took 3/0. |

This is a record snapshot, not a substitute for the official net-run-rate table. India are 1–0 and Thailand 1–1 in Group A; Sri Lanka are 1–0 in Group B. Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia had not yet played at the cutoff.

## India won comfortably. Their batting did not

A 94-run margin makes India's opener look routine. The innings itself was less settled. Shafali drove the start with 64 from 36 balls, but India slipped from 108 for two to 137 for nine. Thailand's Suleeporn Laomi took three for 26 before India's last pair added 22 to reach 159.

The bowlers erased the concern from the result. Thailand were dismissed for 65, with Deepti collecting three wickets without conceding a run in 1.1 overs. Nandni Sharma also took three and Sree Charani two. Two readings can therefore be true: India's attack was far too deep for Thailand, while the batting order supplied something Pakistan will want to test.

Jemimah Rodrigues suffered a high-grade right-hamstring tear while playing in The Hundred on 3 August. The BCCI ruled her out of the Asia Cup and Asian Games and named Pratika Rawal as her replacement. Against Thailand, India's first structural answer was Rawal at No. 3. On T20I debut, she made 22 from 18. That is a beginning, not a verdict. India still have to establish who controls the middle overs when the fast start ends.

## What comes next

**Bangladesh v Indonesia, 31 August:** Indonesia make their senior Asia Cup debut against an experienced Bangladesh side.

**Pakistan v Thailand, 1 September:** Thailand have already defended 120 and taken nine India wickets. Their batting was overwhelmed by India, but their spin attack makes this a live group match.

**India v Hong Kong, China, 3 September:** India will be expected to win. The useful question is whether their middle order can turn a strong platform into a complete 20-over innings.

**India v Pakistan, 5 September:** Watch India's No. 3, Pakistan's response to Deepti, and how both sides handle the middle overs. The fixture may shape first place in Group A, but that cannot be assumed before the preceding matches.

**Sri Lanka v Bangladesh, 6 September:** Bangladesh are the first established Full Member in Sri Lanka's group capable of showing whether the 73-ball demolition of UAE was dominance or simply mismatch.

This page will change as the tournament does. Every update should state its final completed match; partial scores should never be turned into results or qualification claims.

## Editorial disclosure

**By CricTalk desk.** AI assisted the research synthesis and first draft. CricTalk checked tournament structure against official ICC and Emirates Cricket records and match figures against the linked scorecards. Updated through 30 August 2026; Bangladesh v Indonesia had not begun at the cutoff.