IND-W vs SL-W Today's Match Expert Fantasy Tips & Player Stats, Asian Games Womens T20I

Final • Pingfeng Campus Cricket Field • Hangzhou

India Women

116/7 (20)

Sri Lanka Women

97/8 (20)

IND-W won by 19 runs

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India Women

116/7 (20)

Batters

Smriti Mandhana

102.22

c Prabodhani b Ranaweera

Shafali Verma

60.00

st Sanjeewani b Kumari

Jemimah Rodrigues

105.00

c Gunaratne b Prabodhani

Richa Ghosh

150.00

c Sanjeewani b Ranaweera

Harmanpreet Kaur

40.00

c Sanjeewani b Prabodhani

Pooja Vastrakar

50.00

c Gunaratne b Kumari

Deepti Sharma

33.33

Not out

Amanjot Kaur

50.00

runout (Sanjeewani)

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 1, NB: 0, W: 3)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 5.8)

116/7

Did not Bat

Devika Vaidya, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Titas Sadhu

Bowlers

EXT

Oshadi Ranasinghe

5.50

Udeshika Prabodhani

5.33

Inoshi Fernando

3.67

Sugandika Kumari

7.50

Chamari Atapattu

2.5

6.71

Kavisha Dilhari

1.1

6.00

Inoka Ranaweera

5.25

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Shafali Verma

st Sanjeewani b Kumari

1-16

3.4

Smriti Mandhana

c Prabodhani b Ranaweera

2-89

14.5

Richa Ghosh

c Sanjeewani b Ranaweera

3-102

16.3

Harmanpreet Kaur

c Sanjeewani b Prabodhani

4-105

17.5

Pooja Vastrakar

c Gunaratne b Kumari

5-108

18.4

Jemimah Rodrigues

c Gunaratne b Prabodhani

6-114

19.2

Amanjot Kaur

runout (Sanjeewani)

7-116

19.6

Sri Lanka Women

97/8 (20)

Batters

Chamari Atapattu

100.00

c Sharma b Sadhu

Anushka Sanjeewani

20.00

c Kaur b Sadhu

Vishmi Rajapaksha Gunaratne

0.00

b Sadhu

Hasini Perera

113.64

c Vastrakar b Gayakwad

Nilakshi de Silva

67.65

b Vastrakar

Oshadi Ranasinghe

73.08

c Sadhu b Sharma

Kavisha Dilhari

62.50

c Ghosh b Vaidya

Sugandika Kumari

62.50

st Ghosh b Gayakwad

Inoshi Fernando

100.00

Not out

Udeshika Prabodhani

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 2, LB: 3, NB: 0, W: 0)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 4.85)

97/8

Did not Bat

Inoka Ranaweera

Bowlers

EXT

Deepti Sharma

6.25

Pooja Vastrakar

5.00

Titas Sadhu

1.50

Rajeshwari Gayakwad

6.67

Amanjot Kaur

6.00

Devika Vaidya

3.75

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Anushka Sanjeewani

c Kaur b Sadhu

1-13

2.1

Vishmi Rajapaksha Gunaratne

b Sadhu

2-13

2.4

Chamari Atapattu

c Sharma b Sadhu

3-14

4.2

Hasini Perera

c Vastrakar b Gayakwad

4-50

9.5

Nilakshi de Silva

b Vastrakar

5-78

16.1

Oshadi Ranasinghe

c Sadhu b Sharma

6-86

17.4

Kavisha Dilhari

c Ghosh b Vaidya

7-92

18.6

Sugandika Kumari

st Ghosh b Gayakwad

8-96

19.5

Match Info

Date & Time

25 Sep, 11:30 AM IST

Venue

Pingfeng Campus Cricket Field, Hangzhou

Match

Final,

Asian Games Womens T20I

Points Table

Schedule

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Umpires

Mahmood Kharoti (Afghanistan), Masudur Rahman (Bangladesh), Asif Yaqoob (Pakistan, TV)

Referee

Graeme Labrooy (Sri Lanka)

Toss

India Women elected to bat

W 1 4 0 1 0

Over 17

Runs: 6

1b 0 1 W 0 1b

Over 18

Runs: 3

1 2 0 1 1 W

Over 19

Runs: 5

1 1 0 1 W 1

Over 20

Runs: 4

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Commentary

That's it from this historic game, folks! Hope you enjoyed our coverage as much as we did. Keep following Sportskeeda; don't shy away from telling us how we can improve. Have a good rest of your day. It's a goodbye for now from Rudransh and Soorya!

India have proved, once again, they are the best team in Asia. They were always expected to win here but the way they have done it would boost their confidence to another level. Playing spin with aplomb, managing pressure, managing expectations. This team keeps taking big strides. Hopefully, this is just a start of something even more special. For now, even if there's one kid out there anywhere in the continent who watched that medal ceremony and said, "I also want to be there, take a bite at that gold", they have done their job.

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have moved out for their individual photos. Indian players are still standing on the podium and have called members of the support staff to stand with them and give them their flowers (literally) too. A wholesome moment, capping off a tournament that would have given them a thousand memories. Now the Indian flag is up and photos for tomorrow's newspapers and today's articles on Sportskeeda are being clicked.

The cricketers would have loved it. They are at the centre of the achievement, getting individual prizes, no sponsored presentations, no press conferences; just them and their much deserved prize.

The tricolor will fly high as the Indian national anthem is now being played out.

And last but not the least, the gold medalists - India. The sight of Harmanpreet Kaur in tears on the back of a heartbreaking defeat to Australia in the final of the Commonwealth Games last year remains a painful one for Indian cricket fans till date. It's all smiles today though and this achievement is bound to ease those ghosts to a decent extent. A professional display with the ball throughout the tournament with a largely good performance with the bat too in difficult conditions. The experienced lot continues to shine while young blood continues to makes its way up the ranks (read Titas Sadhu). Things are looking bright and how for the Women in Blue!

Next up are the silver medalists - Sri Lanka. So close, yet so far for Chamari Athapaththu's team. But didn't they put up a fight or what! Having defeated England in their own backyard last month, they've continued to take rapid strides in their development and by no means should this achievement today not be looked at as another feather in their cap. A team that certainly has plenty of talent and panache brimming within their ranks and one which will have the attention of the cricketing world on them for a long, long time.

First up, the bronze medalists - Bangladesh. Nigar Sultana and Co. have taken giant strides in the sport in recent times having debuted at the ODI World Cup last year before holding India to a 1-1 series draw at home a couple of months ago. They've been runners-up in the last two editions of the Asian Games cricket event in 2010 and 2014 and while they couldn't make it to the summit clash this time around, they turned in a superb show today to defeat Pakistan in the bronze medal clash. A team that is certainly on the rise alright!

Time for the medals ceremony! The Indian, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi players stride out and take their positions by the massive podium.

THAT'S IT! INDIA WIN THE GOLD! The girls have done India proud. This is a young team, not to forget and each member has stood out at different moments in this tournament and especially in this final for a fantastic achievement! There are no big celebrations. Just the customary handshakes and a few fist pumps. That's how clinical they were even in the moments of extreme pressure. History in style, on 25/09/2023.

End of the match! India win by 19 runs!

Smriti Mandhana 46 (45) | Titas Sadhu (3/6)
Hasini Perera 25 (22) | Udeshika Prabodhani (2/16)

A brilliant, brilliant display from Harmpreet Kaur's team. They have put up a performance that they can be proud of for a long, long time. Cricket has shone in the Asian Games and they have inspired more girls back home to take up the sport and do what Mandhana and Titas did today.

Chasing an under-par score (even in hindsight) Sri Lankan captain Athapaththu threated to take the game away from the very first over by scoring 12 against Deepti Sharma. Unlike Sri Lanka though, India trusted their pacers to do the job on this turning track. Vastrakar shook things up in the over by getting the ball to nip around and bounce a bit awkwardly.

The batters were pushed behind and, doubtful, didn't move their feet much against Titas. The young pacer bolwed fuller and moved the ball both ways to run havoc. Two wickets in her first over put Athapaththu on the backfoot and she mis-timed one in Titas' second too.

Sri Lanka didn't go down without a fight though. Perera and de Silva hit a few boundaries agains the turn of India's spinners. The ball was gripping but they used their feet and sweeps exceptionally well in their 36-run stand. However, Gayakwad was unfazed by the big hits and got the former out.

Ranasinghe tried to offer support to de Silva but as the ball got old, the big shots got more and more difficult to come by. Vastrakar returned to bowl at the death and got de Silva out with a peach of a yorker. Sri Lanka's lower order hung around as the run-rate climbed but didn't have enough in their bats to make India break a sweat.

This is India's second gold for India in this Asian Games and the first-ever in cricket. Onto Ruturaj Gaikwad's team now!

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97 /8 score

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Udeshika Prabodhani *

1 (1)

Inoshi Fernando

1 (1)

Rajeshwari Gayakwad

2 /20

19.6 Rajeshwari Gayakwad to Udeshika Prabodhani, just a single but it doesn't matter - it's a first ever gold in Asian Games cricket for India! The Women in Blue etch themselves into history and the reactions tells you just how easy it has been for them in this defense. They came in as the favorites and they've managed to live up to that billing. It was a back of a length delivery close to the off stump and Prabodhani backs away to punch it to mid-off. A single is completed for what it's worth but it's the Indian tricolor that will fly high. India beat Sri Lanka by 19 runs and bag the gold medal at the Asian Games 2022!

Udeshika Prabodhani, RHB, comes to the crease

A bit of anti-climactic for India! They would have loved to go through these two balls quickly.

19.5 Rajeshwari Gayakwad to Inoshi Priyadharshani, STUMPED! Tossed up full outside the off stump as Priyadharshani steps out looking to go downtown. She's beaten in the flight as Ghosh snaffles the ball quickly and whips out the bails even faster. It's coming to a sorry end for Sri Lanka!

Sugandika Kumari st Richa Ghosh b Rajeshwari Gayakwad 5 (8b, 0x4, 0x6)

Only 2 balls to go...

19.4 Rajeshwari Gayakwad to Sugandika Kumari, fuller outside the off stump. Kumari squeezes it towards cover and picks up a single

19.3 Rajeshwari Gayakwad to Sugandika Kumari, length delivery well outside the off stump. Kumari attempts to sweep it in front of square but cannot connect

19.2 Rajeshwari Gayakwad to Inoshi Priyadharshani, back of a length delivery on off stump. Priyadharshani makes room and steers it out to cover for one

19.1 Rajeshwari Gayakwad to Sugandika Kumari, length delivery outside the off stump. Kumari drags it across the line for a single in front of square and into the deep

Excellent captaincy from Harmanpreet too. Now, Rajeshwari Gayakwad [2-0-15-1] comes back into the attack to finish things off

What a catch from Richa! She has grabbed the gold for India with it. Only a matter of a few deliveries!! A big, big moment coming up.

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