Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Australia eyes fourth consecutive title, while India eyes creating history

Only one week is left for the start of the ICC T20 Women's World Cup 2024 to be played in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from October 3. All the 10 teams participating in the tournament are busy finalizing their preparations. Defending champions Australia are eyeing to defend the title and become champions for the fourth time in a row. At the same time, all eyes are also on the 2020 runner-up Indian team. Under the leadership of captain Harmanpreet Kaur, the Indian team will try to create history and become champions for the first time. Let's take a look at the captains of the main teams participating in this tournament...

Among them, Captain Harmanpreet Kaur is considered one of the experienced players in T20 and captains around the world. This will be her fourth captaincy in this tournament consecutively. Thus, the Indian cricket team reached the final for the only time in 2020 but lost it to Australia. So, it is a huge responsibility for Captain Harmanpreet to get the title for the team.

Wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy will play the seventh consecutive T20 World Cup and has been a part of Australia's last three title victories. She is also leading for the first time in this World Cup, so that way also there will be pressure on her to make the team champion.

The squad will be led for the fourth successive time in a World Cup by Heather Knight, who has the uphill job of making her team champion after 2009. Besides leading, she will have to shine as a batsman too.

World's most explosive batsman in this format, Matthews will captain the team for the second time in the World Cup. Windies won the title for the only time in 2016. Under the captaincy of Mathews, the team can do this again.

The New Zealand team has been very unlucky, and despite reaching the finals twice-cumulative times in the years 2009 and 2010 consecutively, it could not win the title. In such a scenario, Sofia, who is to captain the tournament for the third time, will have a lot of pressure on her to make the team champion.

Fatima has got the captaincy of the Pakistan team for the first time. The overall record of Pakistan in T20 World Cup has not been good, and it has never reached the semi-finals too. Therefore, there will be lots of pressure on them in this mega tournament.