The highest totals for IND-W in the Women’s T20 World Cup, IND-W, with their blistering batting ability, have posted the highest totals for the team in the prestigious tournament of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. The highest total was against the New Zealand Women’s Cricket Team at Providence in the Women’s T20 World Cup 2018, where Harmanpreet Kaur’s ton played the key role in posting that many runs on the board.
The record was once again revised as, in the IND W vs PAK W match, Smriti Mandhana, with her 68-run knock, took India to a total of 170, and this was the third-highest total ever made by IND-W in the Women’s T20 World Cup.
The Highest Total For IND-W in Women’s T20 WC, IND W vs NZ W 2018
The highest total for IND-W in a Women’s T20 World Cup was posted in the opening match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, held at Providence. On 9th November 2018, in the IND W vs NZ W match, IND-W, batting first, posted the historic total of 194 runs in 20 overs, with just 5 wickets lost.
In that match, both the openers, Taniya Bhatia and Smriti Mandhana, got out early, and the run-scoring responsibility fell on the shoulders of Jemimah Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur. Another record that was made in that match was one of the highest partnerships ever made in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.
Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues scored a 134(76)-run partnership where Harmanpreet Kaur scored a valuable 85(45), and Jemimah contributed 48(31). Harmanpreet Kaur scored a blistering ton in that match, scoring 103 runs in 51 balls with a strike rate of 201.96, including 8 sixes and 7 fours in the innings, and for this fantastic century, she was also awarded the Player of the Match.
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Later in the second innings, except for Suzie Bates’ 67(50) and Katey Martin’s 39 runs in 25 balls, none of the batters gave any valuable contribution or displayed a fightback. Poonam Yadav, with her 3-wicket haul, and Dayalan Hemalatha’s 3-wicket spell in 4 overs, also gave a crucial contribution and restricted NZ-W to just 160/9, and IND-W won the match by 34 runs.
The Third-Highest Total For IND-W in the Women’s T20 World Cup, IND W vs PAK W
IND W vs PAK W, the 6th match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026, witnessed history as India posted their highest total ever in Women’s T20 World Cup history. The historic match was played at Edgbaston, Birmingham. The toss was won by Harmanpreet Kaur. The pitch at Edgbaston was batting-friendly.
The innings began with the first over of Sadia Iqbal and both the Indian openers, Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana. Shafali Verma got out in the very first over of Sadia Iqbal and couldn’t score many runs, as she got out on 6(5).
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After losing the important wicket of Shafali Verma, the responsibility of scoring runs and running the scoreboard was on Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues, who came in at No. 3, but Jemimah’s wicket fell early, and she scored 1(7). Indian-W captain Harmanpreet Kaur came to the crease at No. 4.
At 7.5 overs, Smriti Mandhana lofted the ball, and it went up in the sky. The catch seemed easy at mid-off, but Aliya Raza dropped the most important catch of the innings, as Smriti Mandhana was on just 27 runs, and everybody was predicting whether it could be the catch of the match or not.
Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana, the captain and vice-captain, now had to build a partnership to take the match further, and they both were successful in making a partnership. Harmanpreet Kaur contributed 31(28) and Smriti Mandhana 58(36), with a 91-run partnership in 64 balls, and took the match to a respectable stage where the middle order and lower order could score runs and post a big total.
Smriti Mandhana, after scoring a valuable 68 runs in 44 balls with a strike rate of 154.54, made a very crucial contribution, and India was successful in posting 170 runs in 20 overs with the loss of 6 wickets, one of the highest totals for IND-W in T20 World Cups.
Top Five Highest totals for IND-W in T20 WCs
- 194/5 vs NZ-W, at Providence, in 2018
- 172/3 vs SL-W, at Dubai, in 2024
- 170/6 vs PAK-W, at Birmingham, in 2026*
- 167/8 vs AUS-W, at Providence, in 2018
- 167/8 vs AUS-W, at Cape Town, in 2023
