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India finish the inning at 255/9 as Sri Lankan bowlers snatch the limelight

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SL-W vs IND-W : Follow score updates, commentary, and news from the third ODI between Sri Lanka and India in Pallekale on Monday.

255/9 on the cease of the innings for india.  The women in blue seemed like a mirror image of their sri lankan counterparts from the previous fits, depending heavily on their top order. Shefali verma, yatika bhatia, Harmanpreet kaur and pooja vastrakar had been liable for supporting their team get to the end of the innings when their chances appeared bleak.

Alternatively, the sri lankan bowling attack looked invincible placing at regular durations and ensuring that at no factor does the indian team get back into the sport. The whole sri lankan bowling assault picked up wickets in convincing fashion making short paintings of the seemingly threatening indian facet.

The wicket at pallekele has been a good one to bowl on today, because the batting aspect turned into visible struggling. It stays to be visible if the problem lies with the indian batting or will their bowlers be capable of capitalise at the slow conditions.

Younger indian opener shafali verma, who’s acknowledged for her big-hitting prowess, says she is making a conscious effort to improve her strike rotation to become a better cricketer. The 18-yr-old slammed a run-a-ball 71 now not out, her profession-exceptional score in odis, in an unbroken 174-run partnership with smriti mandhana (ninety four now not out) as india decimated the hosts through 10 wickets here on monday to take a unassailable 2-0 lead in the 3 fit collection.

The 18-12 months-vintage has not been capable of hold consistency in her performances, specifically in the 50-over format.

“having seen my beyond suits, i idea i lacked in taking singles, so i’ve worked on it. I’m looking to be higher as i feel taking singles could be very crucial to build your innings in odis,” shafali stated on the eve of the 1/3 and final odi of the series.

“if it is a good ball, it’s about taking singles and rotating the strike. In case you maintain rotating strike, scoring obstacles become smooth. I am additionally working lots on my health.” inside the preceding t20 collection, shafali failed to convert her starts offevolved and were given out for 31, 17 and five inside the three fits.

However in the odis, she scored her first 1/2-century within the layout in view that the one in opposition to south africa within the global cup in march.

With a modest goal in sight, the duo centered on taking singles and twos as they saved piling misery at the lankan assault.

Forty nine of her 71 runs came in singles and twos as she along with her senior teammate slowly built the partnership before chasing it down in 25.4 overs.

“she’s (smriti) supporting me properly on and rancid the field, telling me my errors and wherein i will improve. We revel in speakme to each different, we are hoping to maintain it going, and form greater such partnerships.” india now have harmanpreet kaur main the aspect in all codecs after the mithali raj’s retirement.

Shafali stated the new skipper constantly backs kids. “harry di (harmanpreet) supports children lots. We’ve got plenty of children inside the crew. She has developed a culture in which we maintain our communications going, hold speakme to each different. Sure, there’s a very good crew culture now.” shafali turned into also seen bowling gradual off-breaks within the series and stated it became her skipper’s idea.

“i usually bowled within the nets and recently got a risk to bowl in home cricket and were given self assurance from there. Harry di also supported me, it turned into her idea and he or she instructed me to maintain working towards at the nets. I’m seeking to work greater on it,” she signed off.

Going into this third odi the indian crew may be driving on a high having clinched the series 2-0 in the ultimate match.

The women in blue dominated from the begin with each bat and ball, beating the hosts via 10 wickets.

Captain harmanpreet kaur and deputy smriti mandhana leading from the the front have registered stellar performances in the ultimate in shape, whilst shefali verma and renuka singh proved to be vital cogs within the wheel.

On the other hand, the hosts have struggled to create any momentum and just like the t20 series have relied heavily on captain chamari athapaththu to hold the crew ahead nearly each time.

Will the hosts save you a clean sweep for the indians this in shape , or will the women in blue carry the trophy with a 3-zero victory? Observe for all of the stay updates. Read More News…

Squads

India: Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia (wk), S Meghana, Deepti Sharma, Poonam Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Simran Bahadur, Richa Ghosh (wk), Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Harleen Deol.

Sri Lanka: Chamari Athapaththu (c), Nilakshi de Silva, Kavisha Dilhari, Vishmi Gunaratne, Ama Kanchana, Hansima Karunaratne, Achini Kulasuriya, Sugandika Kumari, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Hasini Perera, Udeshika Prabodhani, Oshadi Ranasinghe Inoka Ranaweera, Sathya Sandeepani, Anushka Sanjeewani, Malsha Shehani,Tharika Sewwandi.

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