India Women beat New Zealand Women by 3 runs in Melbourne and registered their third consecutive win in this Women's T20 World Cup and also booked their semifinal ticket. 

Earlier New Zealand Women won the toss and asked India Women to bat first. Shafali Verma continued her good run and her 46 runs knock helped India Women to post a decent total of 133/8 on the board. In reply, New Zealand top order players struggled and put their team on backfoot. Amelia Kerr and Katey Martin brought New Zealand back into the game but in the end, their efforts weren't enough and they fell short of the target by 3 runs. 

All the major stats and facts from the match between India Women and New Zealand Women in Melbourne 

1 - This was India Women's first win over New Zealand Women in T20I cricket since December 2018. They had lost three matches in a row before this match and their last two wins against New Zealand Women came in T20 World Cups. 

3 - Runs win is the joint smallest win for India Women in T20I cricket in terms of runs.

Smallest wins for India Women in T20Is (By runs) -

3 vs West Indies Women at North Sound, 2012

3 vs New Zealand Women at Melbourne, 2020

5 vs West Indies Women at Providence, 2019

6 vs PAK Women at Sylhet, 2014

7 - India Women have won 7 of their last 8 matches in T20 World Cups and the only loss came against England Women in the semifinal of T20 World Cup 2018. 

50 - Deepti Sharma became the fourth Indian player to take 50 or more wickets in Women's T20I cricket.

Most T20I wickets for India Women -

93 - Poonam Yadav

56 - Jhulan Goswami

53 - Ekta Bisht

50 - Deepti Sharma

48 - Anuja Patil