India Women vs Sri Lanka Women, 3rd ODI: India Eye Sri Lankan Whitewash In Pallekele

06.07.2022 - 12:45 sports.ndtv.com

A confident India will look to complete the formalities and assert their supremacy by completing a whitewash of Sri Lanka in the third and final women's ODI on Thursday in Pallekele.

Playing ODI cricket for the first time since the talismanic Mithali Raj retired from the game, the Indian team won the opening two games in contrasting fashion to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

The visitors had bagged the preceding T20I series 2-1. Chasing similar targets, India looked much more confident in the second ODI as they galloped to 10-wicket win on Monday.

India controlled all aspects of the game. It was the kind of dominant display expected out of Harmanpreet Kaur and her troops through out the tour of the island nation.

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One of the finest players to ever play in women's cricket and former India captain Mithali Raj remembered the fifth anniversary of the historic 2017 Women's World Cup final on Saturday. Mithali, who led India to the iconic final against England at the 'Mecca of Cricket' Lord's Cricket Ground, said that they may not have won the ICC World Cup in 2017 but the event changed the landscape of women's cricket.

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Having taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series, the Indian women's team will now look to pull off a clean sweep when they take on Sri Lanka in the third ODI at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on Thursday. In the second ODI, Smriti Mandhana (94 not out) and Shafali Verma (71 not out) stitched an unbeaten partnership of 174 as India chased down the total without any hiccups. Sri Lanka, on the other hand, will look to get a consolation win, having already lost the T20I series too.

India vs Sri Lanka, 3rd ODI: India eye Sri Lankan whitewash

ODI here on Thursday. Playing ODI cricket for the first time since the talismanic Mithali Raj retired from the game, the Indian team won the opening two games in contrasting fashion to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. The visitors had bagged the preceding T20I series 2-1.

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Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana starred for the Indian women's team as they dominated from start to finish to hammer Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in the second ODI and take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series in Pallekele on Monday. It is worth mentioning that the Indian team openers Smriti and Shafali fired for the first time on the tour, sharing a partnership of 174 runs to see the visitors home in just 25.4 overs. It is the highest target successfully chased without losing a wicket in women's ODIs.