The women’s cricket team will take the field against Sri Lanka on Saturday in Asia Cup. The Indian women’s team has not been able to find much success in the T20 format. But in the Asia Cup, the Indian team is considered a strong contender for victory. The Indian women’s team, led by Harmanpreet Kaur, will take the field with the intention of winning.
After a clean sweep in the ODI series against England, the Indian team will enter the field with high spirits in the Women’s Asia Cup T20 tournament, the Indian team will face Sri Lanka today.
The Indian team was one step behind the gold medal in the Commonwealth games. The Indian team had to be satisfied with the silver medal. After that, the Indian women’s team had to face a 1-2 defeat against England in the T20 format. However, the Indian team made a spectacular comeback, cleaning England 3-0 in ODIs. With this spectacular victory, the Indian team also bid farewell to fast bowler Jhulan Goswami. This series was in the news for being run out at the non-strike end in end.
Indian all-rounder Deepti Sharma ran out England batsman Charlie Dean for leaving the crease before bowling the ball. For which a lot of criticism had to be faced. According to the rules, it is considered valid to run out in this way. The Indian team will try to leave this incident behind and move forward with positive aspects.
Richa Ghosh, who was out of the team in the Commonwealth Games, has been included in the team. If we talk about the overall performance of the players. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur is in excellent form. Smriti Mandhana’s batting has been good, but Shefali Verma, Sabineni Meghna, and Dayalan Hemlata need some improvement in their performance. Jemima Rodrigues Was ruled out of the series against England due to a hand injury and returns to the team.
The responsibility of Indian fast bowling will be on the shoulders of Renuka Singh. While the spin department will be handled by Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gaikwad, and Deepti.
The captaincy of the Sri Lankan team will be in the hands of Chamari Atapattu. Chamari’s responsibility increased after young Vishmi Gunaratne was ruled out due to injury. The responsibility of Sri Lanka’s middle order will be on Hasini Perera and Harshita Samarawickrama, while the responsibility of the bowling attack will be largely on spinners Inoka Ranvira and Oshadi Ranasinghe.
A total of seven teams are participating in the tournament namely India, Pakistan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, and host Bangladesh. Each team will play the other in a round-robin format and thus play six matches. The top four teams in the league stage will advance to the semi-finals.
Teams: India: Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Shefali Verma, Jemima Rodrigues, Sabineni Meghna, Richa Ghosh (WK), Sneh Rana, Dayalan Hemlata, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Pooja Vastrakar, Rajeshwari Gaikwad, Radha Yadav, KP Navgire.
Sri Lanka: Chamari Atapattu (captain), Nilakshi de Silva, Kavisha Dilhari, Achini Kulsuriya, Sugandhika Kumari, Harshita Madhavi, Madushika Methtananda, Hasini Perera, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Inoka Ranvira, Anoushka Sanjeevani (wk), Kaushani Nuthyangana, Rashmi Silva, Rashmi Sevendi.
