India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, Women’s T20 World Cup 2024: IND 30/0 (5); Shafali, Smriti begin innings vs SL

Inoshi for her second. Begins the over with three dot balls. Shafali isn’t able to find the gap. So now she lofts! Her go-to shot - over mid-off for four! Sweeps again, slight midfield at midwicket gets her a double. Another six-run over. 

Kavisha Dilhari now. Slower through the air, difficult to time the ball. FOUR! Full ball and Shafali comes down the track and picks the ball towards square leg. Takes a single off the next ball. Six runs off that over. 

Udeshika Prabodhani into the attack. Shafali takes a double off the first ball towards deep midwicket. FOUR! First boundary for India as Shafali lofts the ball over mid off. Good shot that. Eight runs came in that over. 

Sugandika Kumari from the other end. Plenty of singles. Five runs came in that over, all singles. No boundary yet by India. 

Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana come out to open the innings. Inoshi Fernando with the new ball. Shafali cuts the ball towards deep extra cover for a single off the first ball. Smriti gives the strike back off the next ball, a quick single. Smriti charges and hits the ball towards deep midwicket and gets a single. 

Teams are getting ready for the national anthems. First up, Sri Lanka followed by India. 

It has gotten a bit cooler. The surface has been drier generally, but during the evening the ball skids on a bit better, reckon Ian Bishop and WV Raman. 

India: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Sajeevan Sajana, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Asha Sobhana, Renuka Thakur Singh

Sri Lanka: Vishmi Gunaratne, Chamari Athapaththu(c), Harshitha Samarawickrama, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshi de Silva, Anushka Sanjeewani(w), Ama Kanchana, Sugandika Kumari, Inoshi Priyadharshani, Udeshika Prabodhani, Inoka Ranaweera

India has won the toss and opts to bat. Same team. 

Harmanpreet Kaur: We are going to bat first. So far we haven’t batted first so thought we will have a bat and put a decent total on the board.

There’s something quite humbling about leaders baring themselves to their loyalists. Ahead of a key Group A encounter between India and Sri Lanka on Wednesday, vice-captain Smriti Mandhana and captain Chamari Athapaththu did just that. 

“I would love to ask them (Sri Lanka supporters) to come and watch, I don’t think I can say that they are happy. They had a lot of expectations from the team and me. They probably thought we’d play the semifinals this year. I don’t think we have time to do that, we have two matches,” Athapaththu said here on Tuesday.

Sri Lanka has two losses in two games and finds itself at the bottom of the pile with an abysmal net run rate of -1.667.

“This will be a valuable match for me. I have to challenge myself to handle the pressure. I take on the challenge. Let’s see what my team and I can do,” she added.

Read the preview here: 

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South Africa has defeated Scotland by 80 runs in the Group B encounter and has kept its semifinals hope alive. 

Matches played: 25

India won: 19

Sri Lanka won: 5

No Result: 1

India defeated Pakistan to open its account in the tournament. 

Here’s the match report to help you recap the Sunday game: 

Women’s T20 World Cup 2024: India stutters to nervy win against Pakistan, Net Run Rate still not out of the woods

India huffed and puffed to a six-wicket win with seven balls to spare against a spirited Pakistan side to steady its campaign in the 100th T20 international hosted by this venue.

India is currently fourth in the Group A while Sri Lanka is bottom-placed at fifth spot. 

Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 points table: Australia, England on top

Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 points table: Here’s how Group A and Group B have shape up after nine matches.

The LIVE stream of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 match between India and Sri Lanka will be available on the Disney+ Hotstar platform. 

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