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New Delhi, 09 October (Hindustan Reporter). In the Women's T20 World Cup 2024, the Indian team has won over Sri Lanka in its third match. With this big win of 82 runs in this Group A match, the Indian team has kept its hopes of the semi-finals alive. Due to today's strong performance, the net run rate of the team has also improved a lot. Batting first, India had scored 172 runs, in response to which Sri Lanka could score only 90 runs.
Batting first, India scored 172 runs thanks to half-centuries from Smriti Mandhana and captain Harmanpreet Kaur. Mandhana played an inning of 50 runs in 38 balls with the help of 4 fours and 1 six. Harmanpreet scored 52 runs in 27 balls with the help of 1 six and 8 fours. Whereas Shefali Verma scored 43, Jemimah Rodrigues scored 16 and Richa Ghosh scored 6 runs. For Sri Lanka, only Chamali Atapattu and Ama Kanchana could take one wicket each.
The Sri Lankan women's team, which came to chase the target of 173 runs, did not have a good start and Vishmi Gunaratne returned to the pavilion without opening the account in the first over itself. After this, captain Chamari Atapattu (one run) and Harshita Samarawickrama (3 runs) were also out soon. After losing three wickets for 6 runs, Kavisha Dilhari (21 runs) and Anushka Sanjeevani (20 runs) tried to give support to the team and made a partnership of 37 runs for the fourth wicket. After this only Ama Kanchana could score 19 runs. No other batsman could touch double figures.
For India, Arundhati Reddy and Asha Shobhana took 3 wickets each, while Renuka Singh took 2 wickets and Shreyanka Patil and Deepti Sharma took 1 wicket each.
The Indian team will play its last match of the group stage against Australia. To reach the semi-finals, the Indian team will have to win at any cost.