Shafali Verma played match winning innings, India defeated Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in the third T20 match.

IND W vs SA W: Indian women’s cricket team has defeated Sri Lanka by one wicket in the third T20 match. With this, Team India has achieved an unassailable 3-0 lead in the 5 T20 match series. Sri Lanka had given India a target of 113 runs to win, which Team India easily achieved by losing 2 wickets with 40 balls remaining. Shafali Verma played an unbeaten inning of 79 runs for India.

Smriti Mandhana and jemima Rodrigues was out early

While chasing the target of 113 runs given by Sri Lanka, the team lost the first wicket in the form of Smriti Mandhana. Mandhana was out after scoring only 1 run. after this jemima Rodrigues also returned to the pavilion after scoring only 9 runs in 15 balls, but opener Shafali Verma remained at the other end and played the match-winning innings.

Shafali Verma scored a brilliant half century

Shafali Verma played a brilliant inning of 79 not out off 42 balls. During this, he hit 11 fours and 3 sixes. While captain Harmanpreet Kaur contributed 21 unbeaten runs on 18 balls. In this way Team India achieved the target by losing only 2 wickets.

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Sri Lanka’s batting was like this

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Renuka Singh Thakur was on fire tonight 🔥

She finished with brilliant figures of 4⃣/2⃣1⃣ 👏

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