New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- Top-order stability will be one of the areas to address when India women take on Zimbabwe in the second of the three T20Is on Sunday at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Raipur. A win in the second game will help Smriti Mandhana win his first series as a full-time Indian skipper. Mandhana took over Harmanpreet Kaur earlier this month.

The Women in Blue survived a major scare in the series opener, with four wickets down with just 19 runs on the board. However, it was a match-winning 82-run partnership between debutant Niki Prasad and seasoned all-rounder Deepti Sharma that led India to a four-wicket victory.

The Indian batters were guilty of throwing their wickets away, with off-spinner Nyasha ...