Pakistan Women beat Netherlands Women by 37 runs in Match 26 of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, and the finish came with Fatima Sana turning the closing overs into a rout. At Bristol County Ground in Bristol, she took Babette de Leede at 17.2 overs and Silver Siegers one ball later, ending the match with Netherlands still on 89 for 9 after 18.0 overs.
The result was the kind that comes from pressure building one wicket at a time. Ayesha Zafar had already run out Iris Zwilling at 16.6 overs, and the final burst left Netherlands needing far more than their lower order could find. Fatima, Pakistan Women’s captain, was in the middle of it all as the chase away from a close contest became a 37-run margin.
That margin is the clearest sign of how the game shifted late. The scorecard did not lay out the full innings totals in the live update, but the arithmetic of a 37-run win and a Netherlands reply that reached only 89 for 9 by the 18th over shows Pakistan had already put enough runs on the board to force the pressure back immediately. In a T20 match, that is often where the difference is made: not in a single spell, but in the refusal to let the last overs settle.
There was still a small oddity in the live update. Netherlands were shown as 89 after 18.0 overs even though Pakistan had already been reported as the winner by 37 runs. That points to a scorecard updating while the innings details were still being logged, not to any doubt over the result itself. What is clear is that the late wickets mattered, with de Leede, the Netherlands captain and wicketkeeper, and Silver both falling to Fatima as the game tightened at the end.
For Pakistan, the result hands them a clean World Cup win and leaves the focus on how they finished rather than how they started. For Netherlands, the closing overs were the story they could not escape, and the scoreboard now tells a simple one: Pakistan Women held their nerve, and Fatima made sure the last phase belonged to them.
