Published: Jul 05, 2017, 02:00 PM (IST)
Edited: Jul 05, 2017, 10:29 PM (IST)
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live updates of match No. 14 of ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 between India and Sri Lanka. We will provide live scorecard, match updates and intriguing posts from the social media space in this live blog. The tournament has so far been good for India, who are sitting atop the table with three wins from as many games. Their opponents Sri Lanka, on the other hand, are at the other end of the spectrum, having lost all three of their games. This contest, thus, is a matter of survival for them, while a win for India will take them closer to the semis.
Getting past India will not be an easy task for Sri Lanka, who have looked an ordinary side so far. Skipper Inoka Ranaweera, however, expressed confidence on her side ending on a high as their chances to enter the knockouts are bleak. “At the moment India is doing really well so we’ll definitely have to play very good cricket against them to win. As a team though we’re in good condition, we are batting really well compared to the last few years. We’ll be trying to do our best as a team against India,” she said on the eve of the match.
Her Indian counterpart Mithali Raj, on the other hand, talked about the areas her team needs to improve on despite their superlative show so far. “We definitely will look into the fact that we don’t lose wickets back-to-back because that puts a lot of pressure on the incoming batters as well as the team. We need to work on our partnerships as batters. In terms of bowling, the spinners have been doing well, (against Pakistan) the pacers looked better than the last two games so it depends which wicket we play on against Sri Lanka. If it’s a fresh wicket, then we have different plans for it,” Mithali said on the eve of the clash against Sri Lanka.
Squads:
India: Mithali Raj (c), Ekta Bisht, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Jhulan Goswami, Mansi Joshi, Harmanpreet Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy, Smriti Mandhana, Mona Meshram, Shikha Pandey, Poonam Yadav, Nuzhat Parween (wk), Punam Raut, Deepti Sharma, Sushma Verma (wk)
Sri Lanka: Inoka Ranaweera (c), Prasadani Weerakkody (wk), Nipuni Hansika, Chamari Polgampola, Chamari Atapattu, Dilani Manodara, Shashikala Siriwardene, Hasini Perera, Eshani Lokusuriyage, Sripali Weerakkody, Udeshika Prabodhani, Chandima Gunaratne, Ama Kanchana, Harshitha Madavi, Oshadi Ranasinghe
