Record Breaking India Women hand Butter Fingered Sri Lanka Women a 10 wicket Hiding, Lead the 03 match series 2 – 0
India Women Tour of Sri Lanka 2022 – ICC Women’s Championship – 02nd One Day International – Pallekele, Kandy, Central Province
Sri Lanka Women put into bat, 173 all out – ( 50 Overs ) Ama Kanchana 47no – career best – Nilakshi De Silva 32, Skipper Chamari Athapaththu 27, Anushka Sanjeewani 25, Oshadi Ranasinghe 10, Extras 18 – 02 batters were run out, 03 others were dismissed without scoring – Chamari / Anushka put on 31 runs for the 04th wicket, Anushka / Nilakshi added 28 runs for the 05th wicket, Nilakshi / Ama involved in a 42 run partnership for the 07th wicket – lost the first 06 wickets for the addition of 81 runs, the last 04 wickets fell for the addition of 50 runs – first 10 overs : 26 / 3, 25 overs : 82 / 6, last 10 overs : 37 / 3 – Renuka Thakur 4 / 28 – career best – Deepti Sharma 3 / 30, Meghna Singh 2 / 43, Yastika Bhatia 01 victim & 02 run out assists.
India Women in reply, 174 for no loss – ( 25.4 Overs ) Smriti Mandhana 94no, Shafali Verma 71no – career best – the pair were associated in their maiden century opening stand, it was also the highest ever opening partnership for India Women on Sri Lankan soil whilst being the best ever partnership for them for any wicket against their opponents. On top of it all, this was the highest target successfully chased by a team without losing a wicket in Women’s One Day Internationals – first 10 overs : 55 / 0, 20 overs : 113 / 0, last 5.2 overs : 61 / 0. Poor fielding assisted both players.
Player of the Match : Renuka Singh Thakur – India Women
Picture Credit – SLC