Thanks to opener G Trisha's 49-run innings and excellent bowling performance by the fast bowlers, India defeated Sri Lanka by 60 runs to top Group A of the ICC Under-19 T-20 Women's World Cup here on Thursday.
Trisha's innings of 44 balls (5×4, 1×6) on an aggressive pitch helped India reach 118 for nine. After this, fast bowlers VJ Joshitha and Shabnam destroyed Sri Lanka's top order and reduced the team's score to 9 runs for four wickets in 3.2 overs and after one over, captain Manudi Nanayakkara was run out and the team score was reduced to 12 runs for five wickets. Gave.
Sri Lankan team could ultimately score only 58 runs for nine wickets in 20 overs and India won all the group matches. After the arrival of the spinners, there was not much life left in Sri Lanka's innings and India's left-arm orthodox spinners performed well. Rashmika Sewandi (15, 12b, 2×4) looked to be in good form as long as she played, but the rising rate forced her to take risks against Parunika Sisodia and was caught in the deep. This was also the only double-digit score of the Sri Lankan innings.
Sisodia (2/7) was the best of the spinners as she and her teammates Ayushi Shukla and Vaishnavi Sharma, who had taken impressive figures of 5/5 against Malaysia in the last match, dismantled the lower order without much trouble. . Earlier, India's batting was also stormy, but player of the match Trisha kept the defending champions together with great maturity. The right-handed batsman placed her shots smartly and in a rare display of aggression hit Shashani Gimhani for a six over long-off. She fell victim to Nanayakkara's part-time medium pace bowling, but innings from Joshitha (14 runs off 9 balls) and Mithila Vinod (16 runs off 10 balls) helped India add some crucial runs towards the end of the innings.
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