IND-W vs ZIMW 1st ODI 2026: Result & Scores

Updated 24 Oct 2026

DateFriday, 23 October 2026

Start (IST)2:00 PM

VenueBCA Stadium, Kotambi, Vadodara

SeriesINDW v ZIMW tour

Result

IND-W 200/1 (27.1 ov) · ZIMW 197 (49.5 ov)

India Women won by 9 wickets

Scorecard

Zimbabwe Women won the toss and chose to bat.

Zimbabwe Women Inning 1

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
Modester Mupachikwa	c Kranti Gaud b Shree Charani	25	44	4	0	56.8
Loryn Phiri	c and b Kranti Gaud	1	9	0	0	11.1
Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano	lbw b Shree Charani	21	27	3	0	77.8
Beloved Biza	c Smriti Mandhana b Kranti Gaud	62	92	5	0	67.4
Sharne Mayers	c Sayali Satghare b Deepti Sharma	8	12	0	0	66.7
Nyasha Gwanzura	c and b Shree Charani	13	28	2	0	46.4
Chiedza Dhururu	b Kranti Gaud	10	23	1	0	43.5
Michelle Mavunga	c Jintimani Kalita b Shree Charani	29	23	3	1	126.1
Nomvelo Sibanda	lbw b Shafali Verma	2	7	0	0	28.6
Tendai Makusha	b Deepti Sharma	10	15	2	0	66.7
Olinder Chare	not out	4	19	0	0	21.1

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Kranti Gaud	10	1	42	3	4.2
Sayali Satghare	7	0	33	0	4.71
Jintimani Kalita	5	0	23	0	4.6
Shree Charani	10	3	23	4	2.3
Deepti Sharma	9.5	1	44	2	4.47
Shafali Verma	8	0	28	1	3.5

Zimbabwe Women Inning 1

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
Pratika Rawal	not out	100	96	15	0	104.2
Smriti Mandhana	c Beloved Biza b Olinder Chare	32	34	4	0	94.1
Shafali Verma	not out	64	33	5	4	193.9

Bowler	O	R	W	Econ
Nomvelo Sibanda	2	20	0	10
Nyasha Gwanzura	2.1	22	0	10.15
Michelle Mavunga	2	19	0	9.5
Tendai Makusha	5	25	0	5
Loryn Phiri	5	28	0	5.6
Olinder Chare	7	58	1	8.29
Beloved Biza	4	28	0	7

Pre-match preview · Our pre-match pick: India Women — correct.

IND-W vs ZIMW 1st ODI: pre-match preview

India Women face Zimbabwe Women in a T20I at BCA Stadium, Kotambi, Vadodara on Friday, 23 October 2026. The first ball is scheduled for 2:00 PM IST.

The match is part of the Zimbabwe Women tour of India, 2026, a six-match series running from 16 October to 28 October. India Women have won all three T20Is played in the series so far, on 16, 18 and 20 October.

Series context

ICC describes the tour as a six-match white-ball tour of India, with Zimbabwe’s 15-player squad led by Josephine Nkomo. According to ICC, the ODIs on this tour will count towards the ICC Women’s Championship, giving Zimbabwe a chance to add points to their campaign.

That squad is the one that won Zimbabwe’s first-ever ICC Women’s Championship match, a four-wicket win over West Indies at Harare Sports Club on 27 September, according to ICC.

Form guide

India Women have won all five of their most recent completed matches recorded on MaidanBeat. Three of those came in this series. The other two were in the Women’s Asia Cup 2026: a 40-run win against Bangladesh Women on 10 September and a 72-run win against Sri Lanka Women on 13 September.

A Business Standard headline refers to India’s ODI World Cup triumph and says that is not enough, with Smriti Mandhana saying India need to work hard in T20Is.

Zimbabwe Women have lost all three T20Is on this tour. Their best recent result came before it: ANI reports that Nyasha Gwanzura took career-best figures of 4/33 in the four-wicket ICC Women’s Championship win over West Indies on 27 September, an ODI according to other sources.

Head-to-head

Wisden states that the two sides were meeting in T20Is for the first time when this series began. ICC reports that the tour is the first-ever bilateral international meeting between India and Zimbabwe women. All three meetings so far have gone India Women’s way.

On 16 October, India Women won by 4 wickets, finishing on 116/6 in 15.4 overs against Zimbabwe Women’s 114/5 in 20 overs.

On 18 October, India Women won by 9 wickets, reaching 104/1 in 8.5 overs against Zimbabwe Women’s 102/8 in 20 overs. On 20 October, they won by 92 runs.

Squads and team news

The BCCI Women’s Selection Committee named Smriti Mandhana as captain and Shafali Verma as vice-captain for the T20I and ODI series. Wisden says this is Mandhana’s first assignment as full-time captain in any format, and that Harmanpreet Kaur is part of the T20I squad.

Wisden also reports that Jemimah Rodrigues is recovering from a hamstring injury and is missing the series. It adds that Shreyanka Patil, Renuka Singh Thakur, Radha Yadav and Bharti Fulmali, all part of the Asian Games squad, were left out of the T20I squad.

For Zimbabwe Women, ANI reports that the 15-member squad is unchanged and led by Josephine Nkomo. Gwanzura retains her place alongside Michelle Mavunga and Francisca Chipare.

Our prediction

We lean towards India Women. They have taken the first three T20Is of this series, and the form guide shows five straight wins. Zimbabwe Women will need a clear improvement on their showings so far to change the pattern.