India vs Sri Lanka Womens 5th T20I: The last match of the 5-match T20 series between the women's teams of India and Sri Lanka was played at the Greenfield Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram. In this match, an amazing competition was seen between the two teams. The beginning of the match was nothing special for the Indian team, then Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur made a comeback for the team by playing an amazing innings. Then during the run chase, amazing batting was also seen from Sri Lanka, but the bowlers of Team India showed strong performance under pressure and won the series 5-0.
In this match, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bowl first and Team India lost its first 3 wickets for just 41 runs. Then after reaching 77 runs, half the team returned to the pavilion. After this, a brilliant inning was seen from the bat of Harmanpreet Kaur. Harmanpreet Kaur scored 68 runs in 43 balls, which included 9 fours and 1 six. He scored these runs at a strike rate of 158.13. During this, Arundhati Reddy scored 27 runs on 11 balls and Amanjot Kaur contributed 21 runs. Due to which the Indian team managed to score 175 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs.
Kavisha Dilhari bowled brilliantly for Sri Lanka and took 2 wickets after spending 11 runs in 4 overs. Rashmika Sevwandi and Chamri Atapattu also managed to take 2 wickets each. Nimasha Meepage also got 1 success in her name.
While chasing 176 runs, Sri Lanka's start was also not special and captain Chamri Atapattu was out after scoring 2 runs. But its Hasini Perera and Imesha Dulani batted brilliantly. Imisha Dulani played a quick inning of 50 runs in 39 balls, which included 8 fours. Whereas, Hasini Perera scored 65 runs in 42 balls. During this he hit 8 fours and 1 six. Which raised hopes of Sri Lanka's victory. But the Indian bowlers made a strong comeback and restricted Sri Lanka to 160 runs at the loss of 7 wickets after 20 overs. Due to which the Indian team won the match by 15 runs and also won the series 5-0.
The special thing was that Harmanpreet Kaur used 6 bowlers during this period and all of them took 1 wicket each. In which the special wicket of Deepti Sharma was also included. This was Deepti Sharma's 152nd wicket in T20 International, with this she also became the bowler taking the highest wicket in Women's T20 International.
