Women's T20 World Cup 2026: Harmanpreet Kaur wins toss, elects to bat first against South Africa

In the Womens T20 World Cup 2026 match against South Africa Team Indias skipper Harmanpreet Kaur has won the toss and elected to bat first at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Greater ManchesterThe Women in Blue will enter the clash with two changes where Prema Rawat will make her debut by replacing Shreyanka Patil and Arundhati Reddy will come in place of Kranti GaudAfter winning the toss Team Indias skipper Harmanpreet said We want to bat I think itrsquos a good pitch and if we bat first we could get a result that will help us to win the game On the pitch at Old Trafford I think itrsquos a very good pitch The only thing is we have to give some time in the middle and then we can take the game ahead On becoming the first player to play 200 T20 Internationals 200 games I think honestly itrsquos been an amazing journey I never thought Irsquoll come that far but I think God has been kind and Irsquom really thankful to him and to my family friends BCCI all my teammates Theyrsquove been really supportive On playing in front of a sellout crowd I think theyrsquove been our biggest support Hopefully wersquoll entertain them On team changes Shreyanka is missing because of her injury In place of her Prema is going to make her debut And we have one more change Kranti is resting today Arundhati is playing On her message to debutant Prema Just to enjoy I think Irsquom more nervous playing 200th game and she is someone who looks very calm and hopefully shersquoll enjoy the gameOn the other hand South Africa has also made two changes Tazmin Brits will replace Sune Luus whereas Dane Van Niekerk will come in place of Kayla ReynekeSouth Africas captain Laura Wolvaardt said We probably would have batted as well Yeah pretty big game for us We would have liked to put some runs on the board but hopefully we can restrict them On the importance of the match and the teamrsquos mindset Yeah try not to think about the outcome too much I think we all know sort of whatrsquos at stake today So just try and take one ball at a time stay really present And I feel like if we play our best cricket wersquoll come out on top today On confidence from recent results against India Yeah definitely I think itrsquos nice to have won against them pretty recently but they probably have gotten the better of us at World Cups recently So yeah hopefully we can get them back today On team changes Wersquove got two changes Dan van Niekerk and Taz Britt are back in and Sune Luus and Kayla Reyneke are missing out today On the reason for the changes Yeah we just thought it was the best combination to go with today Obviously usually a bit slower here so we thought wersquod bring in some batters who are really good against the spin So hopefully that works todayWomens T20 World Cup 2026 India vs South Africa Confirmed Playing XIsIndia Smriti Mandhana Shafali Verma Yastika Bhatia Jemimah Rodrigues Harmanpreet Kaur C Richa Ghosh WK Deepti Sharma Prema Rawat Arundhati Reddy Sree Charani Nandni SharmaSouth Africa Laura Wolvaardt C Tazmin Brits Annerie Dercksen Dane Van Niekerk Marizanne Kapp Nadine De Klerk Chloe Tryon Sinalo Jafta WK Shabnim Ismail Ayabonga Khaka Nonkululeko Mlaba