Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur played half-century innings for the Indian team.
ICC Womens T20 World Cup, 2024: In the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, the 12th match of the tournament was played between the women’s teams of India and Sri Lanka in Group A. Let us tell you that in this match played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, India has defeated Sri Lanka by 82 runs.
Batting first, Team India set a strong target of 173 runs for Sri Lanka to win on the basis of brilliant half-centuries by Smriti Mandhana (50 runs, 38 balls) and Harmanpreet Kaur (51* runs, 27 balls). But when Sri Lanka set out to chase this target, it was reduced to 90 runs in 19.5 overs.
Status of India vs Sri Lanka Women’s T20 World Cup match
If we tell you in detail about the match, the Indian team won the toss and decided to bat. Batting first, India scored 172 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in the allotted 20 overs on the basis of half-centuries from Smriti Mandhana (50) and Harmanpreet Kaur (52*).
Earlier, India’s opener Shefali Verma (43) and Smriti gave a strong start to the team by making a partnership of 98 runs for the first wicket. Apart from this, Jemimah Rodrigues scored 16 runs, while Richa Ghosh remained unbeaten after scoring 6* runs. So if we talk about Sri Lanka’s bowling, Chamari Atapattu and Ama Kanchana got 1 success each.
After this, when Sri Lanka came to chase the strong target of 173 runs given by India, it was all out for just 90 runs in 19.5 overs. For Sri Lanka, only Kavisha Dilhari could play the best innings of 21 runs. Apart from this, no other player could score more runs.
So there was excellent bowling from India’s side. Asha Sobhana and Arudhanti Reddy got 3 wickets each for India. Apart from this, Renuka Thakur got 2 wickets and Shreyanka Patil and Deepti Sharma got 1 wicket each.
đź”™ to đź”™ victories for the #WomeninBlue
A marvelous 82-run win against Sri Lanka – #TeamIndia‘s largest win in the #T20WorldCup
📸: ICC
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