ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025: Deepti Sharma and Amanjot Kaur impress as India beat Sri Lanka in opener
India organized a bright return after a moderate collapse to defeat Sri Lanka in the opening match of the Women’s World Cup in Guwahati, which was affected by the rain.
The landlords lost four small doors for four running of 11 balls, and shifted to 124-6 for Spinner Inoka Ranaweera, including all three in 26.
However, Amanjot Kaur and Deepti Sharma produced a partnership that won 103 matches for the seventh small door because Sri Lanka could not protect the first disciplines in the field, and the first fell to 57.
Sneh Rana added a late acceleration with 15 wholesale 28 and Sharma fell to 53 from Inning’s last ball, and India recovered to release a competitive 269-8 from 47 seas and three of them were lost from rain delay.
This saw that Sri Lanka’s target revised from the same amount of sea to 271 and reached 82-1 and made a promising start, but at the end of the 15 captain Chamari Athapaththu stopped the progress of 43 at the end of 15.
With Harshitha Samarawickrama, 52 Second Small Gate Stand with Harshitha Samarawickrama held visitors in the game, but lacked India’s depth of strokes and could not fall to 140-6 and finally twisted to 211.
Sharma has created a lively crowd of 22,843, which is a record for the World Cup Group of India, while adding 3-54 figures to the half-century, while other spinnings Sneh Rana and Shree Charani took 2-32 and 2-37 respectively.
While the tournament continued with Australia’s defense champions on Wednesday in Indore, New Zealand, England begins its campaigns against South Africa on Friday.
