India Women vs Sri Lanka Women, Highlights, ICC Women's T20 World Cup: Shafali, Radha power India to a seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka

That’s it! India beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets. Easy win for Harmanpreet Kaur-led side in Melbourne as they make it four wins out of four matches to top Group A.

India will enter the semi-finals as the only team that is yet to experience a defeat.

India 116/3 in 14.4 overs, ( Jemimah Rodrigues 15 , Deepti Sharma 15)

Deepti Sharma with the winning runs as she bends and deploys a sweep towards backward square leg fence.

After 14 overs,India Women 109/3 ( Jemimah Rodrigues 13 , Deepti Sharma 10)

Jemimah must thank her stars to still be out there in the middle after the Sri Lankan captain put down an absolute sitter after she chipped it mid wicket. Formalities remaining, just four more runs needed.

After 13 overs,India Women 104/3 ( Jemimah Rodrigues 10 , Deepti Sharma 8)

Rodrigues collects her first boundary of the innings as India procure nine risk-free runs to trickle down the required number of runs in single digits. They just need nine more to maintain their 100 % win record in group stages.

After 12 overs,India Women 95/3 ( Jemimah Rodrigues 3 , Deepti Sharma 6)

Dilhari is back into the attack. She does get the ball to turn and bounce a touch to create doubts in the mind of the batswomen. Deepti earns a boundary as India close in on 100-run mark.

Need 18 to win.

After 11 overs,India Women 89/3 ( Jemimah Rodrigues 2 , Deepti Sharma 1)

Some relief for Sri Lanka, even though it has come belatedly for them as they finally see the back of Shafali Verma. Deepti Sharma is the new player to come out to bat. Rodrigues is also new to the crease but the task ahead of them is barely challenging. 

India require 24 runs off 54 balls.

OUT! Shafali Verma falls agonisingly short of a well-deserved half-century and what will hurt her is the mode of her dismissal. Jemimah bunts towards mid-on and sets off for a run. Shafali was ambling across the pitch however, both Rodrigues and Verma were about to collide mid pitch, which led to further issues and didn’t have enough time to recover, change her path and slide her bat into the crease. Top knock, tame finish.

Shafali Verma run out (Madavi/Anushka Sanjeewani) 47(34)

After 10 overs,India Women 86/2 ( Shafali Verma 46 , Jemimah Rodrigues 1)

A boundary to start the over, followed by couple of wides and then finally Sri Lanka taste some success as they snuff out Harmanpreet Kaur’s wicket. Jemimah Rodrigues comes out to bat and is off the mark with a single, Verma is across her stumps again to pull the ball towards long leg, but fails to connect but the keeper was ducking and taken her eyes off the ball to stop it from running away for four byes.

India need 27 more runs to win

OUT! Harmanpreet Kaur perishes, searching for a big one down the ground, the Indian captain swipes but was never quite close to the pitch of the ball to play the shot and hence she gets the height but not the distance. Caught at long on. 

Kaur c Hansima Karunaratne b Siriwardene 15(14)

After 9 overs,India Women 74/1 ( Shafali Verma 41 , Harmanpreet Kaur (C) 15)

Kavisha Dilhari is introduced into the attack and Verma thrashes her first delivery to cover fence. A good comeback after the initial boundary, giving away just three runs off the next four balls.

After 8 overs,India Women 67/1 ( Shafali Verma 34 , Harmanpreet Kaur (C) 15)

Harmanpreet Kaur now gets a chance to free her arms and unleash some of her shots. Athapaththu taken to the cleaners from her opposite number, the over costs 15 runs.

After 7 overs,India Women 52/1 ( Shafali Verma 33 , Harmanpreet Kaur (C) 1)

Prabodhani lines up a tidy over as Kaur looks to get her eye in. Only three singles came from the over as India cross the 50-run mark.

After 6 overs,India Women 49/1 ( Shafali Verma 31 , Harmanpreet Kaur (C) 0)

Verma takes full advantage of the last over of the fielding restrictions, smacking a couple of boundaries along with a maximum. India on the cusp of fifty and are fast running away with the game. Siriwardene’s first over is carted for 15 runs.

After 5 overs,India Women 34/1 ( Shafali Verma 16 , Harmanpreet Kaur (C) 0)

Prabodhani is back into the attack and she claims the first wicket for the Lankans. Mandhana’s poor tournament continues. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur has promoted herself to come out and bat at number three.

OUT! Prabodhani provides the first breakthrough for Sri Lanka! Kavisha Dilhari ensures she holds on to the catch this time around and Mandhana has to make the walk back to the pavilion. The ball was pitched up and Mandhana this time preferring to go over mid on, doesn’t get the timing or the elevation right, ends up skewing a catch to the mid on fielder.

Mandhana c Kavisha Dilhari b Prabodhani 17(12)

After 4 overs,India Women 33/0 ( Shafali Verma 15 , Smriti Mandhana 17)

Chamari Athapaththu brings herself into the attack. In what was shaping out to be a good quiet over is ruined with a boundary off the final ball of the over to spoil it for Sri Lanka.

After 3 overs,India Women 27/0 ( Shafali Verma 14 , Smriti Mandhana 12)

After Verma, Mandhana, joins the fun, lifting couple of boundaries to the long off region. Earlier in the over, Verma was again dropped by Sandeepani off her own bowling. Her first over costs 11 runs. India are off to a flier!

After 2 overs,India Women 16/0 ( Shafali Verma 13 , Smriti Mandhana 2)

Shashikala Siriwardene to share the new ball. Mandhana skews one off the outside edge that fortunately for her bounces a couple of times before the short third man fielder, giving her time to change ends. However, Sri Lanka have a massive moment early in the match with the opportunity of sending Verma back in the pavilion but the extra cover fielder puts down a rather simple chance, she might have been distracted with the fielder from cover-point crossing her eyeline but it should have been still taken. Verma was never going to look back as she pummels couple of boundaries in the over.

After 1 overs,India Women 6/0 ( Shafali Verma 5 , Smriti Mandhana 1)

Quality shot first up from Verma to get herself and India underway, caressing a drive through covers. She turns the strike over with a single off the fourth ball. Mandhana, too, is off the mark with a nice looking drive through covers, but with protection available in the deep, it is kept down to a single.