Shafali Verma’s fifty, Jemimah Rodriguez’s blast, India defeated Sri Lanka by 7 wickets in the second T20.

By Samira Vishwas On Dec 24, 2025

IND W vs SL W: Indian women’s cricket team has defeated Sri Lanka women’s team by 7 wickets in the second T20 match. Team India achieved the target of 129 runs given by Sri Lanka by losing 3 wickets with 49 balls remaining. Shafali Verma scored a brilliant half-century for India. There itself jemima Rodriguez also played stormy innings. Now Team India has taken a 2-0 lead in the 5 T20 match series.

Smriti Mandhana was out early

Team India, chasing the target of 129 runs given by Sri Lanka, lost the first wicket in the form of Smriti Mandhana at the score of 29 runs. Mandhana was out after scoring 14 runs on 11 balls. After this, there was a partnership of 58 runs for the second wicket between opener Shafali Verma and Jemimah Rodriguez, who came to bat at number-3. Both the players batted brilliantly, but then Jemimah Rodriguez was out after playing a quick innings.

Good partnership between Shafali Verma and Jemima

Jemimah Rodriguez returned to the pavilion after playing an innings of 26 runs in 15 balls. During this, he hit 4 fours and one six. After this, Shafali Verma and captain Haranpreet Kaur led India to victory. However, Harmanpreet Kaur was out when India needed one run to win. He scored 10 runs on 12 balls.

Shafali Verma played a stormy inning of unbeaten 69 runs.

Whereas Shafali Verma returned unbeaten after leading the Indian team to victory. She played an unbeaten inning of 69 runs on 34 balls. During this, he hit 11 fours and one six. Whereas Richa Ghosh scored the winning run.

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Sri Lanka’s batting was like this

After losing the toss and batting first, Sri Lankan team could score only 128 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. to sri lanka Harshita Samarawickrama played an inning of 33 runs in 32 balls. While captain Chamari Athapaththu scored 31 runs on 24 balls. Hasini Perera contributed 22 runs on 28 balls. Whereas for India, Vaishnavi Sharma and Shri Charani took 2-2 wickets. Whereas Kranti Gaur and Sneh Rana got 1 success each.

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