In the first T20 match played between India and Sri Lanka women’s cricket team, India defeated Sri Lanka by eight wickets. In this match played in Visakhapatnam, the Indian cricket team won the toss and decided to bowl first. The Indian cricket team allowed the Sri Lankan team to score only 121 runs in 20 overs and made the target very easy. The Indian team achieved the target of 122 runs in just 14.4 overs.
Two young players made their debut in this match. Both are players from Madhya Pradesh. Doctor A. S. In this match played at Rajasekhara Reddy Stadium, Vaishnavi Sharma and Sricharani got a place in the playing 11. Both the players played their first match. Although Vaishnavi Sharma could not take a single wicket in the match, but Sricharani achieved a spectacular success.
Madhya Pradesh’s Vaishnavi Sharma bowled four overs in the match and gave only 16 runs, although she did not get any wicket. Whereas Sricharani achieved a success by giving 30 runs in four overs. Both the players performed well. Kranti Gaur also achieved a success from India’s side. Actually, three Sri Lankan players were run out, due to which the team could not progress towards a big score. For the team, Vishmi Gunaratne played an inning of 39 runs, while Chamari Athapaththu scored only 15 runs. Whereas Hasni Perera played an inning of 20 runs and Harshita Samarawickrama played an inning of 21 runs. No batsman of the team could score a half-century.
The Indian cricket team, which set out to chase the target of 122 runs, did not have a very good start. The Indian team lost its first wicket on the score of just 13 runs. Shafali Verma became the victim of Kavya Kavindi after scoring only nine runs. Smriti Mandhana kept the team under control from one end. Smriti Mandhana played an inning of 25 runs in 25 balls. Mandhana hit four fours in her innings. Although the team’s second wicket fell at 67 runs, but after this Jemimah Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur led the team to victory. Jemimah Rodrigues played an unbeaten inning of 69 runs in 44 balls. Rodrigues hit 10 fours, while Harmanpreet Kaur played an inning of 15 runs in 16 balls and led the team to victory.
During this time, Smriti Mandhana also registered a big record in her name. Smriti Mandhana has become the first Indian and second batsman in the world to complete 4000 runs in international women’s T20 cricket. Smriti Mandhana has achieved this feat in 154 matches of her T20 career. Before her, this feat was achieved only by Suzie Bates, who has 4716 runs in her name.
