- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR5.3 Renuka has her revenge! Perera has taken her for runs, but she has the last laugh. Full and swinging away across Perera, who looks to drive away from her body. This time the outside edge carries to Deepti at short third. Change of ends does the trick for Renuka as Sri Lanka lose both openers in the last two overs of a powerplay that was otherwise looking good for them 31/24.3 Deepti Sharma is inevitable, eh?! Athapaththu was labouring along, not even able to rotate strike, so the pressure was building. So she finally looks to switch gears and take on the bowling, charging down to Deepti, who tosses it up wide. Athapaththu swishes across the line and gets a top edge and it spoons up for a simple chance at mid-on, where Athapaththu's opposite number does the needful 25/15.6 Chipped back to the bowler and Renuka has delivered two wickets in the powerplay! This is full and swinging across, and Samarawickrama was early into the shot, pushing in front of her body. The ball comes off the inside half of the bat and goes to Renuka at a perfect height for her to pouch it on her follow through. In the space of 10 balls, it has gone from being Sri Lanka's powerplay to being India's! 32/315.2 And Renuka has a fourth! Goes full and wide to Imesha, who comes down the track and looks to go inside out to this back-of-the-hand slower ball, only to slice it behind point and Jemimah Rodrigues is a gun fielder who quickly moves to her left to get under that 90/69.3 Big appeal, turned down immediately. Full ball nips in and stays low to rap Nilakshika on the pads who misses her flick. India review. The Indian players sound very confident. That inswinger stayed deceptively low, and Nilakshika was caught on the crease. And that's hit her in front of off and the ball is projected to be crashing into the middle of middle stump! What an inspired change, bringing Renuka into the XI today! 45/413.5 Just as Sri Lanka are finding their way back in this game, Deepti gets a breakthrough! Dilhari looks to come down the track again and Deepti goes fuller this time, not letting the batter get under the ball. She looks to clear the midwicket boundary, but can only pick out Amanjot Kaur stationed at the ropes there. And that's Deepti's 150th T20I wicket 85/517.4 Knocks her over next ball! Dropped on a length on middle and off at 68kph, and Shehani was too early into her shot. Ends up just getting a nibble onto the stumps and Deepti now has her third 98/7Extras6 (b 1, lb 2, w 3)TOTAL112/7 (20 Overs, RR: 5.6)Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Chamari Athapaththu, 4.3 ov), 2-31 (Hasini Perera, 5.3 ov), 3-32 (Harshitha Samarawickrama, 5.6 ov), 4-45 (Nilakshika Silva, 9.3 ov), 5-85 (Kavisha Dilhari, 13.5 ov), 6-90 (Imesha Dulani, 15.2 ov), 7-98 (Malsha Shehani, 17.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Renuka Singh 4 1 21 4 5.25 16 4 0 0 0 K Gaud 4 0 22 0 5.5 15 2 1 2 0 DB Sharma 4 0 18 3 4.5 14 2 0 0 0 Vaishnavi Sharma 3 0 14 0 4.66 8 1 0 0 0 AB Kaur 4 0 23 0 5.75 11 2 0 1 0 N Shree Charani 1 0 11 0 11 1 2 0 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR3.2 Loud appeal as Mandhana misses her sweep, and wait it's been given out! And Mandhana reviews it immediately. Tossed up around middle and leg, spins away slightly and stays under the bat to hit the front foot as Mandhana gets low for the sweep. There's no bat or glove there. And ball-tracking has that crashing into leg stump and Kavisha Dilhari has a big wicket early on! Mandhana once again can't get a big score here in this series 27/17.6 Kavisha gets her wicket anyway! Tossed up full outside off and Rodrigues looks to sweep, only to get an underedge onto the stumps! Just like when there was a dropped catch off Deepti Sharma's bowling in the first innings, Kavisha Dilhari gets the batter out the very next ball by bowling her 67/2Extras5 (lb 1, nb 1, w 3)TOTAL115/2 (13.2 Overs, RR: 8.62)Fall of wickets: 1-27 (Smriti Mandhana, 3.2 ov), 2-67 (Jemimah Rodrigues, 7.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB M Shehani 2.2 0 28 0 12 3 4 1 0 0 M Madara 2 0 11 0 5.5 6 1 0 1 1 NM Meepage 2 0 29 0 14.5 4 5 1 0 0 WK Dilhari 3 0 18 2 6 11 1 1 2 0 I Ranaweera 4 0 28 0 7 6 3 0 0 0
Match Details
Toss
India Women , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Series result
India Women led the 5-match series 3-0
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
19.00 start, First Session 19.00-20.30, Interval 20.30-20.50, Second Session 20.50-22.20
Match days
26 December 2025 - night match (20-over match)
Women T20 debut
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Match Notes
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 32 runs, 3 wickets)
- Over 9.3: Review by India Women (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - N Janani, Batter - NND Silva (Upheld)
- Drinks: Sri Lanka Women - 45/4 in 9.4 overs (I Dulani 8, WK Dilhari 0)
- Sri Lanka Women: 50 runs in 10.4 overs (64 balls), Extras 3
- Sri Lanka Women: 100 runs in 18.4 overs (112 balls), Extras 6
- Innings Break: Sri Lanka Women - 112/7 in 20.0 overs (Kaushini Nuthyangana 19, M Madara 1)
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 55 runs, 1 wicket)
- Over 3.2: Review by India Women (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - Gayathri V, Batter - S Mandhana (Struck down)
- Over 3.4: Review by Sri Lanka Women (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - Gayathri V, Batter - JI Rodrigues (Struck down)
- India Women: 50 runs in 5.3 overs (34 balls), Extras 3
- Shafali Verma: 50 off 24 balls (8 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Drinks: India Women - 85/2 in 10.0 overs (Shafali Verma 63, H Kaur 7)
- India Women: 100 runs in 11.5 overs (72 balls), Extras 5
Match Coverage
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