Dambulla, June 22: –
Indian women’s cricket team will be eyeing a fresh start under new all-format skipper Harmanpreet Kaur against Sri Lanka in the first T20 International of the three-match series, starting the two team here on Thursday on June 23 will be start the match will be played of women team.
This will be the first international assignment for the Indian women since the disappointment at the 2022 Women’s World Cup
The well-balanced team with young talent and the expertise of players like Harman preet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana is all set to lock horns with the Lankans in 3 ODIs and 3 T20Is to be played at all the matches that they Pallekele and Dambulla respectively.
On the personal front, skipper Harmanpreet will be eyeing a milestone. The 33-year-old batter, who has amassed 2319 runs from 121 matches, needs the another 46 runs to eclipse Mithali in the shortest format played on the team india .
The spotlight will also be on vice-captain Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet and coach Ramesh Powar, who recorded a seven-match winning streak that aap will be very hardwork in the last T20 World Cup that are participate all the team before India were knocked out in the semifinals by South Africa that after she gone to a final.
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Hosts Sri Lanka, on the other hand, will start the series on the back foot as they were recently all the team player will be played by good but the indian women cricket team will played a very well all the situation whitewashed 0-3 by Pakistan in a T20 series.
However, the Indians will have to remain vigilant against the likes of Sri Lankan veterans Oshadi Ranasinghe and Chamari Athapaththu and all the indian batsman will be better strike rate to the all formats.
The Indians last played a one-off game against New Zealand in the shortest format in February this year, which they lost by 18 runs in this match .
Going into the series, the likes of Mandhana, Shefali Verma, Deepti Sharma and pacer Pooja Vastrakar will inject enough confidence owing to their current form she played very well all situations she is very cool mind played in aal situation.
Going by current form and world rankings, India will definitely start as favourites against the Island nation and the hosts will need to raise their game by leaps and bounds to upset the Indians batsman will give his hundred percent in all the formats The three-game T20 series will be followed by as many ODIs, scheduled to be played at Pallekele on July 1, 4 and 7.
Here is the full schedule, IST timing, live streaming and live telecast of the series .
Squads :-
India:–
Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Simran Bahadur, Yastika Bhatia, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Richa Ghosh (WK), Sabbhineni Meghana, Meghna Singh, Poonam Yadav, Renuka Singh, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav the all player will be team india give his best.
Sri Lanka:-
Chamari Athapaththu (C), Nilakshi de Silva, Kavisha Dilhari, Vishmi Gunaratne, Ama Kanchana, Hansima Karunaratne, Achini Kulasuriya, Sugandika Kumari, Harshitha Madavi, Hasini Perera, Udeshika Prabodhani, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Inoka Ranaweera, Sathya Sandeepani, Anushka Sanjeewani, Malsha Shehani, Tharika Sewwandi the Sri Lankan bowler will be best bowling performance in this series.
Harmanpreet Kaur would be ushering in a new era as India’s ODI captain after the retirement of Mithali Raj as the Women in Blue look to have a successful captain of indian women team that outing in a limited-overs series starting June 23. Sri Lanka on the other hand, will have their task to all format cut out against India after they lost a previous series to Pakistan.
