5 reasons why India failed to win the Women’s T20 World Cup 2020

No half-centuries in the entire tournament

It was only Shafali Verma who was smacking it all around the park among the Indian batters. Deepti Sharma too played a couple of useful innings when India were in trouble in the middle but apart from them, none of the other batters stood out. No India batter got a single half-century throughout this tournament.

Verma was the only batter who looked comfortable and showed consistency. She had a strike-rate of 158.25 and scored 163 runs which is the most by an Indian player in this edition of the T20 World Cup. Deepti Sharma was the only other batter to get more than 100 runs.

There was a template to every game. The 16-year-old opener gave the team a flying start but couldn’t convert it into big knocks. None of the others got going at any point during the tournament. In fact, India’s scores in this tournament were 132/4, 142/6, 133/8, 116/3 and 99 all out, the last two of which came while chasing.

Hence, it was the failure of the batting line-up and the absence of big scores that hurt India.