IND-W vs TL-W

9:42 PM local time, 11:12 PM IST: So India begin their Asia Cup campaign with a win, and quite a convincing one that too, if you look at the margin. But, the batting does leave a lot to be desired, especially in the middle-order. They take on Hong Kong, China, next, on 2 September. We will be back with you for that match, starting 6:30 PM local time (8:00 PM IST). Let's see, how India perform in that game, overall. This is Sourabh and Bidipto taking your leave. Keep following Sportskeeda! 

Harmanpreet Kaur (India captain): "It was a good start with the bat, but when the ball was holding, we played a few shots too many. But overall, we played better cricket. When the ball held in the pitch, we didn't play good shots, but credit to Thailand for bowling so well! Every team is improving, Thailand have shown massive improvement, in this Asia Cup you cannot take any team lightly. Shafali (Verma) is scoring those crucial runs for us up front, and Deepti (Sharma) as always, is coming up with some important runs and taking key wickets." 

Shafali Verma (Player of the Match, 64 runs off only 36 balls): "At the beginning, I was looking to play the ball in the gaps. Then, as the ball went softer, I tried to play more aerially. The ball did come on nicely early, but there was a bit of hold later on. We are happy as a team, we did well." 

Thipatcha Putthawong (Thailand Women captain): Quite proud of the performance overall. It was a good opportunity for Thailand to play against a team like India. We do not get many opportunitites like this. We will bounce back stronger. The second half was done well, we restricted them to a total that was much less that what it looked after the first half of the innings and the plan was to chase it down

9:25 PM local time, 10:55 PM IST: India win by 94 runs with 23 balls to spare! 

Shafali Verma 64 (36) | Deepti Sharma - 3/0 (1.1)
Nannapat Koncharoenkai 41 (48) | Suleeporn Laomi - 3/26 (4)

The bowling effort was spirited. But the batting, far from it. Thailand were helped by some lapses in the field by India, but even then, they could not get even close to the Indian 1st innings total. 

India, after an iffy batting performance, were just too good in terms of experience and quality in the 2nd innings, to kick off their Asia Cup campaign with a big win. 

India misfielded, India dropped catches, but, India did well on other occasions in the field, to complete a fine performance overall. And the highlight, was Deepti Sharma, becoming the leading wicket-taker in T20Is in her 150th game. She now has 171 wickets to her name. 

Deepti bowled 7 deliveries, took 3 wickets, but didn't concede a run! That's how good she was! Nandani Sharma too picked up 3 wickets, bowling her full quota of 4 overs, giving away only 18 runs. Shree Charani picked up a couple of wickets too. 

For Thailand, Nannapat Koncharoenkai was the only batter to register a double-digit score. That tells you a story! Every other batter, came, spent a bit of time out in the middle, and went. The fight required, was missing, big time. 

The pitch was good to bat on, but as we thought initially, got better to bowl on, with the ball gripping the surface and offering the spinners turn. There was some swing on offer for the pacers as well. 

16.1 Deepti Sharma to Nannapat Koncharoenkai, OUT! That is that. India win by a massive 94-run margin and begin their campaign getting two points to their name by bundling Thailand out for a paltry 65. An excellent catch from Richa Ghosh to get the final wicket and guess what? Deepti Sharma takes 3 wickets without conceding a single run in her 150th T20I and not only that she is now the leading T20I wicket taker, how fitting is that. That ball spun back in from a length outside off, Koncharoenkai got cramped up looking to punch it away off the backfoot, the ball lobbed up off the top edge and Richa ran forward to her right before diving forward as the ball nestled into her gloves nicely.

Deepti Sharma [2.0-1-0-2] comes back into the attack.

Right, so can Nannapat get to a half-century? Thailand should set their sights set on that now. It's more realistic. 

15.6 Kranti Gaud to Thipatcha Putthawong, good length, angling away from off, Putthawong looks to defend from the crease but gets beaten by a long way in the end

15.5 Kranti Gaud to Thipatcha Putthawong, AHA! The number 11 tried to run that down to third man there, it was slow and angling across on a length, she hung back but was beaten outside off

15.4 Kranti Gaud to Nannapat Koncharoenkai, gets a short and wide one, takes a step closer to the ball and cuts it away to deep cover for one. 

15.3 Kranti Gaud to Nannapat Koncharoenkai, clears mid-on this time! A boundary after almost half a T20 innings. This was slightly more fuller, around off, she cleared her front leg and lofted that over Smriti at mid-on in the ring. It skipped away to the fence

So now let's see, who is run out! Because both were as if shaking hands in the middle of the pitch. And it's Onnicha who has to go, run out without facing a ball!