Sri Lanka Women 96/7 in 20 overs, Live Cricket Score, India Women vs Sri Lanka Women 2016, 1st T20I at Ranchi, India Women win by 35 runs!
Sri Lanka Women 96/7 in 20 overs, Live Cricket Score, India Women vs Sri Lanka Women 2016, 1st T20I at Ranchi, India Women win by 35 runs!
Good Morning! Hello and Welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of India Women vs Sri Lanka Women first Twenty20 International (T20I) match at Ranchi. Both teams will battle it out hard in the first match to gain the psychological advantage for the remaining two games of the three-match series. India are high on confidence after their clean sweep of the recently concluded three-match one day international (ODI) series. They would be itching to whitewash the T20I series as well. Sri Lanka looked down and out in the ODIs particularly with the bat but will be hoping to make dramatic comeback in the shortest version of the game. LIVE CRICKET SCORECARD: India Women vs Sri Lanka Women, 1st T20I at Ranchi
Live Cricket Score, Sri Lanka Women 96/7 in 20 overs | TARGET 131 | BATTING: Dilani Manodara 41 (44), Udeshika Prabodhani 0 (0): Last over to go and India are awaiting their 1st T20I win. Deepti Sharma is bowling the last over and Sri Lanka have no hopes of winning the match. India Women have once again proven their spark with Anuja Patil standing out with 3 for 14. From batting perspective, India Women Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur scored 35 and 36 runs respectively. Deepti Sharma bags two wickets of Hansima Karunarathane and Nilakshi d Silva. Udeshika Prabodhani has come to face the last ball of Deepti and Sri Lanka end their innings by 96 runs. Dilani Manodara was the highest scorer with 41 runs not out. OUT! Hansima Krunarathane b Deepti Sharma 14 (14), OUT! Nilakshi de Silva 5 (7)
Live Cricket Score, Sri Lanka Women 80/5 in 17 overs | TARGET 131 | BATTING: Dilani Manodara 31 (36), Hansima Karunarathane 13 (11): And there goes the 5th wicket down. This could be the moment for India with 5 wickets down Ekta Bisht gets her first in this innings. Hansima Krunarathane comes to bat and Poonam Yadav is bowling her last over. She has not received any wicket yet and it will be added advantage if she gets one. Sri Lanka require 53 runs to win from three overs. OUT! Eshani Lokusuriyage ct Mithali b Ekta Bisht 5 (6)
Live Cricket Score, Sri Lanka Women 62/4 in 14 overs | TARGET 131 | BATTING: Dilani Manodara 26 (30), Eshani Lokusuriyage 5 (5): And yet another breakthrough for India with fourth wicket down of Shashikala Siriwardene and Poonam Yadav gets her wicket. Sri Lanka are moving at very slow pace and have just put up 50 runs yet on board. They require 74 runs to win. Eshani Lokusuriyage comes to bat for Sri Lanka. Shikha Pandey is bowling her third over. Just one run given away yet and one more to add to that over. Dilani is playing on 26, Sri Lanka looks dependent on her to give the perfect end to this innings. OUT! Shashikala Siriwardene ct Veda Krishnamurthy b Poonam Yadav 18 (29)
Live Cricket Score, Sri Lanka Women 41/3 in 10 overs | TARGET 131 | BATTING: Dilani Manodara 21 (23), Shashikala Siriwardene 7 (17): Dilani Manodara is playing so very good innings and she is 20 runs up already with three boundaries in the innings. Shashikala Siriwardene is just building her pace after three wickets down. Sri Lanka are not 50 runs up yet and are half way through the innings. India need to get more wickets to win the match and Sri Lanka need a good partnership.
Live Cricket Score, Sri Lanka Women 25/3 in 6 overs | TARGET 131 | BATTING: Dilani Manodara 11 (11), Shashikala Siriwardene 1 (5): Anuja Patil is on a roll with three wickets in her kitty. Nipuni Hansika goes off the crease and Shashikala Siriwardene comes to bat. Ekta Bish is bowling her first over for India. Sri Lanka still require 107 runs to win and are moving at 4 runs per over. Just two runs from it and good over by Ekta Bisht. OUT! Nipuni Hansika lbw b Anuja Patil 3 (7)
Live Cricket Score, Sri Lanka Women 18/2 in 4 overs | TARGET 131 | BATTING: Dilani Manodara 5 (5), Nipuni Hansika 3 (6): Sri Lanka Women begin their innings and look pretty similar to what India Women faced had faced in the initial overs. Sri Lanka are two down already and Anuja Patil from India comes into attack. Yasoda Mendis and Chamari Athapaththu are OUT! Dilani Manodara and Nipuni Hansika are on crease for Sri Lanka at the moment and India also looking confident to get Sri Lanka down. OUT! Yasoda Mendis st S B Verma b Anuja Patil 8 (6), OUT! Chamari Athapaththu b Anuja Patil 0 (7)
Live Cricket Score, India Women 130/6 in 20 overs | BATTING: Anuja Patil 22 (17), Shikha Pandey 4 (5): Yet another wicket down for India and they end the innings at 130 for 6. Ekta Bisht goes for three and Shikha Pandey came for just to give morale support to A A Patil. Sri Lanka looked confident throughout the innings restricting India well within 150 runs and yet India managed to get 130 runs on board. Eshani Lokusuriyage got her second wicket of the innings while Sugandika Kumari picked three wickets. Sri Lanka have played well and will now have to achieve 131 in2 0 overs. OUT! Ekta Bisht b Eshani Lokusuriyage 3 (4)
Live Cricket Score, India Women 123/5 in 18.2 overs | BATTING: Anuja Patil 21 (13), Ekta Bisht 3 (3): Harmanpreet Kaur is 30 runs up and is playing well. Veda is just picking the pace of India playing at the moment. And just at that moment India lose two more wickets and this is not looking good for India. Just three overs remaining for India to score a competitive total. Veda and Harmanpreet also go out and now playing are A Patil and Ekta Bisht. Sri Lanka will be very happy with their innings with wickets crumbling at regular intervals. OUT! Harmanpreet Kaur ct Hansima Karunarathne b Inoka Ranaweera 36 (41), OUT! Veda Krishnamurthy ct Yasoda Mendis b Eshani Lokusuriyage 9 (9)
Live Cricket Score, India Women 81/3 in 13 overs | BATTING: Harmanpreet Kaur 28 (31), Veda Krishnamurthy 3 (3): Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana were playing until Sugandika Kumari strikes again with third wicket down of Smriti Mandhana who was almost nearing her half-century. Now enters Veda Krishnamurthy for India. India are not even 100-plus at the moment and low scoring totals can be scary since Sri Lanka look confident with their attack and pace. OUT! Smriti Mandhana ct Eshani Lokusuriyage b Sugandika Kumari 35 (27)
Live Cricket Score, India Women 32/2 in 5 overs | BATTING: Smriti Mandhana 9 (6), Harmanpreet Kaur 8 (7): Just when India were crusing in the innings, Sri Lanka grab the opportunity and pick wicket of Vanitha after a boundary from her side. Sugandika Kumari gets her first wicket. Smriti Mandhana comes to bat for India. Sri Lanka need more of these to get hold of this game or India would need gain a partnership to pose a high total. This is not looking good for India. Another wicket down of the captain and once again Sugandika Kumari strikes. Harmanpreet Kaur comes to bat. OUT! Vanitha V R ct Chamari Athapaththu b Sugandika Kumari 12 (9), OUT! Mithali Raj ct Eshani Lokusuriyage b Sugandika Kumari 3 (8)
Live Cricket Score, India Women 9/0 in 1 overs | BATTING: Mithali Raj 1 (2), Vanitha V R 8 (5): India are already off to a wonderful start to the innings. Mithali Raj has come to begin the innings for India alongside Vanitha. Udeshika Prabodhani started the the attack for Sri Lanka. Vanitha has scored two boundaries in the first over and turns to be expensive over for Sri Lanka.
India Women won the toss and elect to bat first.
Sri Lanka’s batting is giving them goosebumps. In all the three games, they could not touch the 200-run mark; their highest was 178 in the second match. It is imperative that they leave the past behind and enter the T20I series afresh. A win here will certainly heal the wounds they suffered in 50-over cricket and what would be more dazzling then starting the T20I series with a win in the first match. India, on the other hand would want to keep the winning momentum going and come out hard at the Lankans. India have some very big names in their ranks and it will be quite difficult for Sri Lanka to stand up to their might. Things get even more precarious as India have home advantage. The visitors can certainly make a comeback if they come with a good strategy and execute it to perfection. Adding on to their strengths and exploiting the opposition’s weakness will be the key for them.
Squads:
India Women: Mithali Raj (c), Sushma Verma (wk), Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Jhulan Goswami, Thirush Kamini, Harmanpreet Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy, Smriti Mandhana, Niranjana Niranjana, Shikha Pandey, Anuja Patil, Poonam Yadav, Sneh Rana, Vellaswamy Vanitha
Sri Lanka Women: Shashikala Siriwardene (c), Prasadani Weerakkody (wk), Nishika de Silva, Nipuni Hansika, Chamari Jayangani Atapattu, Ama Kanchana, Hansima Karunaratne, Eshani Lokursiyage Kaushalya, Sugandika Kumari, Yasoda Mendis, Udeshika Prabodhani, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Inoka Ranaweera, Dilani Mandora Surangika