Women's T20 World Cup: Virat Kohli the inspiration behind India's win vs Pakistan

beating arch-rivals Pakistan by 7 wickets in Cape Town. The win was India's 11th in 14 T20 meetings with their regional rivals. India batter Jemimah Rodrigues revealed that India's victory was inspired by "extraordinary" superstar Virat Kohli.Rodrigues, who hit an unbeaten 53 off 38 deliveries to steer her side to a win, admitted that memories of Kohli's blistering 82 not out off 53 balls in India's four-wicket victory against Pakistan in the Men's T20 World Cup last year had been inspirational."India v Pakistan matches are always a little bit more special -- we spoke about it in the team meeting," said the 22-year-old."Growing up we always watched these matches. I remember watching the match at the MCG where Virat Kohli played such an extraordinary knock.

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Jemimah Rodrigues and Richa Ghosh's incredible 58-run partnership for the fourth wicket coupled with sloppy fielding from the Pakistani women helped India cruise to a seven-wicket win over the arch-rivals in their Group B campaign opener of the Women's T20 World Cup in Cape Town on Sunday.

"We did speak about it but we also just wanted to go out there and put our first win on the board. We just wanted to go out, play the same cricket and with the same intensity as usual."Rodrigues came into the World Cup on the back of a worrying run of form which had seen her hit just one score over 30 in her last 10 T20 international innings. But on Sunday she was the star of the show, ably supported by 19-year-old wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh who made 31 not out."This innings means a lot to me -- I hadn't been getting scores for a long time," Rodrigues