Sri Lanka Women vs India Women, 3rd T20I: Match Preview, Head to Head, Playing XI and Broadcast Details

The Indian team clinched the three-match T20I series after a comprehensive victory in the second T20I at Dambulla. The Sri Lankan team once again faltered with the bat as they put a modest total of 125 runs on the board after winning the toss and electing to bat first. India chased the total down with five wickets in hand.

India on the back of Smriti Mandhana’s 39 and skipper Harmanpreet Kaur’s unbeaten 31, eased past the target with five wickets and five deliveries to spare. The visitors made a great start to the chase thanks to blistering cameos from Shefali Verma (17 off 10) and Sabbhineni Meghana (17 off 10), in the powerplay. The Indian innings wobbled after the departure of Mandhana, but Harmanpreet made sure she stayed at the crease to avert any mishaps and saw her side through to the finish line.

Sri Lanka, on the other hand, will be disappointed with their batting performance as they were provided a solid platform by the opening pair of Vishmi Gunaratne and Chamari Athapaththu, but the islanders failed to capitalize on the 87-run opening stand and succumbed to an underwhelming score of 125. The batting collapse saw them lose seven wickets for just 33 runs. Both teams will look to finish the series on a winning note as they must have their eyes set on the three-match ODI series beginning from July 1.

Pitch and conditions

The surface at the Rangiri Dambulla was expected to assist the spinners, and it did that. However, the pitch wasn’t that tough to bat on, as some of the players from the Indian camp showed. It will be the third consecutive match to be played here, and there won’t be much change in the surface. Teams will look to bat first and put a decent total on the board for the opposition to chase.

Playing Combinations for SL vs IND

Sri Lanka

The morale in the Sri Lankan dressing room will be quite low after a damaging series loss against India. They have got the batters to blame as they failed to put the opposition under pressure for a sustained period. The bowlers did put a spirited fight but it wasn’t enough in the end. The management won’t be making any changes as they would like to give the players one more go before the ODI series.

Predicted XI: Chamari Athapaththu (c), Vishmi Gunaratne, Harshitha Madavi, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshi de Silva, Anushka Sanjeewani (wk), Inoka Ranaweera, Ama Kanchana, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Sugandika Kumari, Udeshika Prabodhani

India

Unlike Sri Lanka, India will be under no pressure for the third and final game and might look to give chances to some of their players on the bench. The 21-year-old talented wicketkeeper-batter Yatsika Bhatia might get to play in the match.

Predicted Playing XI: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Sabbhineni Meghana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Yatsika Bhatia (wk), Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Renuka Singh, Radha Yadav, Simran Bahadur

SL vs IND Head to Head

Played – 20 | Sri Lanka – 3 | India – 16 | No Result – 1

SL vs IND Broadcast Details

Match Timings- 2:00 PM IST

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