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India Women vs Sri Lanka Women, 3rd T20I

India Women won by 8 wkts
SLW
112/7(20)
INDW
115/2(13.2)
PLAYER OF THE MATCH
Harmanpreet Kaur | India captain: It was a great series for all of us. That's what we discussed when we get-together after the World Cup, we have to raise our standard. Be a little more aggressive in T20, we all know the T20 World Cup is coming up, this is the right time to push ourselves, so really happy with the overall performance. (highlight of the series) Contribution from our bowling because T20 bowling is very important. If you keep ticking all the boxes in the bowling department, you have more chances to win the game.
Chamari Athapaththu | Sri Lanka captain: I feel we are not playing our best cricket throughout the tournament. So as a batting unit we struggle a lot. We need to improve those areas. We are playing our best batting lineup, till last 6 months we are using those players as a batting unit. We try a few things in bowling unit, but we always trust our youngsters and top-order, still we are not finding the good way in this format. We give opportunity to Imesha Dulani today, she batted really good in the middle-order. Kavisha batted really good. These are the positives in today game. Still we try to find a few players before the World Cup, because we rest 5-6 players in our team. We need to improve those areas before next World Cup. We have two bilateral series coming up, so I hope we can perform in both bilateral series.
Highest scores for IND-W vs SL-W in T20Is
79* - Shafali Verma, Thiruvananthapuram, 2025 (3rd T20I)*
76 - Jemimah Rodrigues, Sylhet, 2022 AC
69* - Jemimah Rodrigues, Visakhapatnam, 2025 (1st T20I)
69* - Shafali Verma, Visakhapatnam, 2025 (2nd T20I)

Shafali Verma today
vs pace: 7 off 6, one four, SR: 116.7
vs spin: 72 off 36, 10 fours, 3 sixes, SR: 200.0

Shafali Verma’s innings (by footwork)
Back foot: 17(10), 3 fours, SR: 170.0
Front foot: 30(22), 4 fours, 1 six SR: 136.4
Down the track: 32(10), 4 fours, 2 sixes, SR: 320.0

Shafali Verma scored 68.69 percent of India's runs today, which is the highest percentage of runs scored by a single Woman batter in a completed innings for India in WT20Is, bettering Harmanpreet Kaur’s 66.12% runs she scored against Australia at Billericay in 2011.
Most wins as a captain in Women's T20Is
77 - Harmanpreet Kaur (130 mats)*
76 - Meg Lanning (100 mats)
72 - Heather Knight (96 mats)
68 - Charlotte Edwards (93 mats)
*including super wins

Most wins as a captain against a team in WT20Is
16 - Harmanpreet Kaur vs SL-W (20 mats)*
14 - Charlotte Edwards vs AUS-W (24 mats)
14 - Harmanpreet Kaur vs BAN-W (17 mats)
14 - Heather Knight vs NZ-W (15 mats)

Fourth consecutive series victory for India Women against Sri Lanka in T20Is. Only time a lost a series against them was when both played first series in 2014 in India.
21:36 Local Time, 16:06 GMT, 21:36 IST: Such a convincing win again for India. All three games have been one-sided. Shafali Verma started off with three dots in the opening over but then came the big shots. Smriti fell early and Jemimah struggled but there was no stopping Shafali. She crunched boundaries and sixes to put the Sri Lankans under tremendous pressure. The visitors gave chances to the youngsters who had no answers to Shafali's onslaught. Harmanpreet Kaur did her bit with a neat knock but it was Shafali all the way. A chase of 113 was finished with 6.4 overs to spare. Stay tuned for the post-match stuff...
13.2
4
Shehani to Shafali Verma, FOUR, fittingly Shafali Verma wins it. She gives the charge and pummels the loft, wide of long-on and it's a crushing win for India as they wrap up the series 3-0
13.1
Shehani to Harmanpreet Kaur, 1 run, tossed up and Harmanpreet Kaur comes down the track to flick to deep mid-wicket
13
4 1 1 1 1 1 (9 runs)
INDW 110-2
Harmanpreet Kaur
20(17)
Shafali Verma
75(41)
Inoka Ranaweera
4-0-28-0
12.6
Inoka Ranaweera to Harmanpreet Kaur, 1 run, full on the stumps, Harmanpreet Kaur gets forward to drive to long-on
12.5
Inoka Ranaweera to Shafali Verma, 1 run, tossed up full outside off, Shafali Verma comes down the track to drive to deep extra-cover, straight to the fielder
12.4
Inoka Ranaweera to Harmanpreet Kaur, 1 run, full on middle, Harmanpreet Kaur gets forward to flick to deep mid-wicket
12.3
Inoka Ranaweera to Shafali Verma, 1 run, full on middle, Shafali Verma gets forward to drive to long-off
12.2
Inoka Ranaweera to Harmanpreet Kaur, 1 run, tossed up and Harmanpreet Kaur comes down the track to loft, off the thick inside half and wide of mid-on
12.1
4
Inoka Ranaweera to Harmanpreet Kaur, FOUR, tossed up full outside off, Harmanpreet Kaur sinks on her back knee and swipes it straight down the ground for four
12
1 1 1 4 1 1 (9 runs)
INDW 101-2
Harmanpreet Kaur
13(13)
Shafali Verma
73(39)
Malsha Shehani
2-0-23-0
11.6
Shehani to Harmanpreet Kaur, 1 run, a juicy low full-toss outside off, Harmanpreet Kaur gets forward and pats to long-on for one
11.5
Shehani to Shafali Verma, 1 run, Shafali Verma comes down the track and takes it on the full, drives to long-on
11.4
4
Shehani to Shafali Verma, FOUR, there comes the slogsweep and it's four between deep mid-wicket and long-on. Tossed up full on middle, Shafali Verma muscles it again
11.3
Shehani to Harmanpreet Kaur, 1 run, tossed up full outside off, Harmanpreet Kaur comes down the track to drive to long-off
11.2
Shehani to Shafali Verma, 1 run, tossed up and Shafali Verma comes down the track to loft, gets a loft of height and it falls in between long-off and long-on, just one
11.1
Shehani to Harmanpreet Kaur, 1 run, tossed up full on middle, Harmanpreet Kaur gets forward to drive to long-on
Malsha Shehani [1.0-0-14-0] is back into the attack