New Delhi: Deepti Sharma said she felt no pressure despite being left with work to do at the crease as she guided India to victory over Sri Lanka in the opening match of the 2025 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup. Sharma smashed an impressive 53 as India secured convincing 59-runs victory (DLS method) after beginning her partnership with Amanjot Kaur with the team at 124 for six. Kaur contributed 57 runs and together the pair added a century partnership before the seventh wicket fell putting India on course for victory. Deepti revealed she felt no pressure [Our partnership] was a turning point said Deepti Sharma. Back-to-back wickets were falling so we wanted to have a long partnership. The things that we had planned we executed it. There was no pressure at all because I am used to these types of innings and situations. I have played it in the past and that partnership with Amanjot was important. I do not feel pressure I enjoy my batting. Deepti added Deepti also made an impact with the ball The 28-year-old all-rounder also made an impact with the ball as she picked three wickets conceding 54 runs including crucial wickets of Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu just before she reached her fifty On this type of pitch I believe in my stock balls and try to bowl stump to stump while backing my strengths. The first match always sets the tone and there are a lot of positives from the match and hopefully in the rest of the tournament we can keep performing this way and keep winning this way. Sharma added. Her captain Harmanpreet Kaur echoed this sentiment and praised Sharmas crucial role in securing such an important opening match victory. It was not an easy game. We know in ICC tournaments every game is important and is going to be high-pressure she said. The way (Amanjot Kaur and Deepti) handled the situation it was outstanding to watch. Im really happy all the girls came together to try to win this game for the country. Having (strong) batting until number seven is the biggest strength for us. Amanjot is someone who can contribute with both bat and ball for us and Deepti has been doing it for some time. Athapaththu was disappointed as her team dropped three catches Athapaththu was disappointed as her team dropped three catches of debutant Amonjot Kaur with Sri Lanka fielding a young side themselves. The 35-year-old stayed confident in her teams abilities even though they fell short of chasing Indias total of 269. We executed our plans but we dropped a couple of catches especially [Amanjot] Kaurs catch. We made three mistakes and it cost us assessed Athapaththu. As a batting unit we lost a couple of wickets early and in the middle overs and that is where we lost this game. After losing my wicket our batters struggled a little bit. Chasing is not easy but we need to execute our right plans at the right time. If we keep losing wickets it is not easy to chase. Inoka [Ranaweera] bowled really well and Udeshika [Prabodhani] because they have experience. The rest struggled a little bit. They have to think about it a little bit we have to talk [with the coaches] and maybe reset our plans. We are calm I still have faith in my youngsters because they have won more games for us. I know the mistakes if we can reset these plans I know we can bounce back. Athapaththu concluded