Published: Feb 26, 2016, 10:06 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 30, 2016, 07:52 PM (IST)
Hello and Welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of third Twenty20 International (T20I) between India and Sri Lanka women at Ranchi. We will bring you all the live updates relating to this match on regular basis. It is a three-match T20I series and the Indians have already sealed it by winning the first two matches. Both the previous matches were played at the same venue. Both, India and Sri Lanka will be led by their regular skippers, Mithali Raj and Shashikala Siriwardene respectively. It was Mithali who led her side to a victory in the second match to ensure India have the series to their name. She was unbeaten on 51 from 52 balls and her innings was inclusive of six boundaries. Live Cricket Scorecard, India Women vs Sri Lanka Women, 2015-16, 3rd T20I match at Ranchi
Live Cricket Score: India Women 91/1 in overs 13.5, Veda Krishnamurthy 13(16), Smriti Mandhana 43(43): And that is it! India Women have won the final match! The target was low and Indian batsmen looked confident from the very first ball. Vanitha departed making necessary contributions while Smriti Mandhana progressed things further towards the victory along with Veda Krishnamurthy. The both went on and India reached the target with 5.1 overs still remaining. The only successful bowler for Sri Lanka has been Chamari Athapaththu who removed Vanitha. Here is what happened: India Women thrash Sri Lanka Women in 3rd T20I at Ranchi, seal series 3-0
Live Cricket Score: India Women 76/1 in overs 11, Veda Krishnamurthy 6(9), Smriti Mandhana 35(33): And finally a success for the Sri Lanka bowlers. Chamara Athapaththu has bagged Vanitha’s wicket as Hansima Karunarathne took a clean catch. But one wicket at this point will not do the tricks for the tourists here as they have already scored the major portion of the target.
OUT! Vellaswamy Vanitha c Hansima Karunarathne b Chamari Athapaththu 34(25)
Live Cricket Score: India Women 49/0 in overs 6, Vellaswamy Vanitha 29(18), Smriti Mandhana 20(18): India have started off powerfully as both the openers have started hitting hard. Sri Lanka bowlers have failed to take a single wicket and India Women are cruising towards their target.
*India Women’s innings start*
Live Cricket Score: Sri Lanka Women 89/9 in overs 20, Batting: Eshani Lokusuriyage 25(22), Sugandika Kumari 4(3): And Sri Lanka Women’s innings comes to an end. The visitors’ batting failed miserably as they have been bundled out within 100 and the score is easily chasable. More pressure on the bowlers now as they will have to defend a very low total. The India Women have a strong and elongated batting line-up which has the potential to chase down the total quite easily. Here’s what happened in the first innings: India Women restrict Sri Lanka Women at 89-9 in 3rd T20I at Ranchi
Live Cricket Score: Sri Lanka Women 59/7 in overs 17, Batting: Eshani Lokusuriyage 12(15), Ama Kanchana 4(5): India Women are on a roll here as they have bagged more wickets. Sri Lanka Women haven’t yet reached their team score of 100 and that looks quite tough as well. Athapaththu is the only player to score some mentionable runs but she has also been dismissed. Ekta Bisht has scalped 3 wickets so far.
OUT! Nilakshi de Silva c Mithali Raj b Ekta Bisht 1(6)
OUT! Prasadani Weerakkodi c Smriti Mandhana b Rajeshwari Gayakwad 3(9)
OUT! Hansima Karunaratne stumped Sushma Verma b Ekta Bisht 1(6)
OUT! Chamari Athapaththu c Smriti Mandhana b Deepti Sharma 21(33)
Live Cricket Score: Sri Lanka Women 39/3 in overs 10, Batting: Chamari Athapaththu 21(29), Prasadani Weerakkody 2(3): Sri Lanka Women go on losing wickets and call for more trouble. Hansika, who was trying to build up a partnership with Athapaththu but is stumped by Verma now.
OUT! Nipuni Hansika stumped Sushma Verma b Ekta Bishta 13(24)
Live Cricket Score: Sri Lanka Women 11/2 in overs 5, Batting: Chamari Athapaththu 3(13), Nipuni Hansika 7(13): And what a start there by the Indian ladies. Anuja Patil has done what was expected of her, sending opener Ranasinghe for a 2-ball duck. Another big blow for Sri Lanka as skipper Siriwardene followed her with a duck. Sri Lanka women are in deep trouble now losing two of their important wickets. The batsmen at the crease now need to take the things further building up a good partnership.
OUT! Shashikala Siriwardene run out Deepti Sharma 0(2)
OUT! Oshadi Ranasinghe lbw Anuja Patil 0(2)
TOSS UPDATE: Sri Lanka women won the toss, elected to bat first.
The first match saw the visitors show a great bowling effort when they restricted team India to 130. However, the likes of Anuja Patil Ekta Bist, Poonam Yadav and Deepti Sharma helped the hosts to bowl the Lankans for just 96 runs.
Squads:
Sri Lanka Women: Shashikala Siriwardene, Nilakshi de Silva, Udeshika Prabodhani, Dilani Manodara, Yasoda Mendis, Chamari Atapattu(c), Chandima Gunaratne, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Prasadani Weerakkody(w), Sugandika Kumari, Hansima Karunaratne, Ama Kanchana, Eshani Lokusuriyage, Nipuni Hansika, Nishika de Silva, Inoka Ranaweera
India Women: Veda Krishnamurthy, Smriti Mandhana, Mithali Raj(c), Jhulan Goswami, Thirush Kamini, Nagarajan Niranjana, Poonam Yadav, Sushma Verma(w), Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Harmanpreet Kaur, Shikha Pandey, Vellaswamy Vanitha, Sneh Rana, Anuja Patil, Deepti Sharma, Ekta Bisht
