India women's cricket team, led by Harmanpreet Kaur and supported by deputy Smriti Mandhana, will play two warm-up matches before launching their tournament campaign.

The Indian women's team will look to end the hoodoo of not winning a senior World Cup when Harmanpreet Kaur and Co. will step onto the cricketing field in UAE. The World Cup starts on October 3 with India set to take on New Zealand in their first match on October 4.

This is the first time India will take the field in the UAE before Women's T20 World Cup 2024 starts. Follow the live cricket scores and updates from the IND-W vs WI-W match

The Women in Blue came agonisingly close to tasting silverware for the first time during the 2020 edition of the tournament but fell short in the final. India finished as the runner-up, which remains as its best-ever finish at the T20 World Cup.

Batting first, India women set a target of 142 runs, finishing at 141/8 in 20 overs. In reply, the West Indies women managed to score only 121/8 in their innings

The Indian team started off their warm-up fixtures with an emphatic 20-run win over West Indies in Dubai. Jemimah Rodrigues scored 52 and Pooja Vastrakar took 3 wickets to help India win.

India beat West Indies by 20 runs in their first warm-up clash of the Women's T20 World Cup 2024. Jemimah Rodrigues scored a half-century. Pooja Vastrakar was the pick of the bowlers

Rodrigues anchored India's innings with a steady 40-ball 52, while Vastrakar's three-wicket haul were the standout performances for India's warm-up game against West Indies in Dubai.