India Women vs Sri Lanka Women Live Rating, 1st ODI (India Women’s National Cricket Team vs Sri Lanka Women’s National Cricket Team): India captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and elected to bowl first against Sri Lanka within the rain-delayed women’s Tri-series opener in Colombo this afternoon.
Sneh Rana and debutant Shree Charani shared five wickets between them as a disciplined Indian bowling unit bundled out Sri Lanka for 147.
Off-spinner Rana and left-arm spinner Charani returned impressive figures of three/31 and a pair of/26 respectively, after bowling their full quota of eight overs each.
Senior off-spinner Deepti Sharma too chipped in with two wickets for 22 runs in 5.1 overs.
Not one of the Sri Lankan batters could get an enormous knock as Hasini Perera made 30 in 46 balls and Kavisha Dilhari contributed a 26-ball 25. Skipper Chamari Athapaththu (7), opening the batting alongside Hasini, failed to fireplace initially of the innings.
The sport has been reduced to 39 overs per team after thundershowers led to a delay of three hours.
Teams:
Sri Lanka Women: Chamari Athapaththu (c), Hasini Perera, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshi de Silva, Anushka Sanjeewani (w), Hansima Karunaratne, Piyumi Wathsala, Achini Kulasuriya, Inoka Ranaweera, Malki Madara
India Women: Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (w), Deepti Sharma, Kashvee Gautam, Arundhati Reddy, Sneh Rana, Nallapureddy Charani.
