Deepti Sharma, along with Shree Charani and Sneh Rana, went on to rip up Sri Lanka’s batting lineup to secure a fine victory for India Women in the opener match of the Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025.
The Women in Blues went on to secure 59 59-run victory to give a jump start for the side.
Batting first, India made a slow start, scoring only 43 runs in 10 overs for a wicket. Smriti Mandhana lost her wicket to Udeshika for 8 runs. However, Harleen Deol and Pratika Rawal went on to forge a decent partnership.
After the end of 10 overs, rain stopped the game and and was reduced to a 48-over game.
With Pratika Rawal lost her wicket to Inoka for 37 runs, Harleen Deol and Harmanpreet Kaur joined hand aiming to stabilise the innings.
However, the disaster came in the 26th over where Harleen lost her wicket to Inoka in the first ball.
Inoka Ranaweera did not stop as she picked the wicket of Jemimah Rodrigues in the very next ball for a golden duck. On the verge of hattrick, she went on to bowl her third delivery of the over.
However, she went after Kaur in the fifth delivery dismissing for 21 runs and completed her over with three wickets leaving India with last five wickets for 121 runs.
With the dismissal of Richa Ghosh for 2 runs, Deepti Sharma and Amanjot Kaur went on to forge a 103-run partnership reviving the side from the mini collapse.
Amanjot Kaur who is playing her first World Cup game went on to score 57 runs anchoring the innings.
Deepti Sharma also went on to smash her fifty before being dismissed by Achini Kulasuriya for 53 runs.
Sneh Rana who joined Deepti went on berserk mode hitting 28* runs off 15 deliveries which included 2 fours and 2 sixes. India went on to score 269 runs and Sri Lanka has bee give a target of 271 as per DLS.
Inoka Ranaweera went on to pick four wickets, while Udeshika bagged two wickets. Chamari Athapaththu and Achini Kulasuriya went on to pick one wickets each.
In the pursuit of chasing 271 target (DLS Method), Hasini Perera and Chamari Athapaththu opened the innings while Kranti Goud opened the bowling attack.
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗽 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝘄𝗶𝗻! 👏🏏
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮: 𝟮𝟲𝟵/𝟴 (𝟰𝟳.𝟬)
Amanjot Kaur – 57 (56)
Deepti Sharma – 53 (53)
Inoka Ranaweera – 4/46 (9)𝗦𝗿𝗶 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗮: 𝟮𝟭𝟭/𝟭𝟬 (𝟰𝟱.𝟰)
Chamari Athapaththu – 43 (47)… pic.twitter.com/FKhB9fFsBp— Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) September 30, 2025
Kranti Goud got the first break through bagging the wicket of Perera for 14 runs. With Chamari Athapaththu amd Harshitha Samarawickrama at crease, Sri Lanka went on to score 45 runs in the powerplay.
After Chamari’s dismissal for 43 runs by Deepti, Charani picked the wicket of Harshita for 29 runs.
With Harshita’s dismissal, Sri Lanka suffered batting collapse, as they lost wickets at regular interval.
Amanjot Kaur sent out Vishmi for 11 runs while Kavisha went bag to dug out for 15 runs. This was Deepti Sharma’s second wicket and went on for her third dismissal bagging the wicket of Anusha Sanjeewani for 6 runs.
Meanwhile Nilakshi went on to score 35 runs, while Sugandika Kumari scored 10 runs and Achini Kalasuriya went on to add 17 runs to the game.
With Udeshika Prabodhani and Inoka Ranaweera went at crease, Sri Lanka crossed the 200 run mark.
With Pratika Rawal picking the wicket of Inoka Ranaweera, Sri Lanka got bowled out for 211 runs and lost the game by 59 runs.
Deepti Sharma was named the Player of the Match. Speaking at the post match conference, “It was a turning point, we had lost back to back wickets, we spoke about taking the game deep till the 46-47th over.”
“There was no pressure, I am used to such situations and playing such knocks. The partnership was important with Amanjot. I enjoy my batting.”
“When the wicket is like this then I focus on my stock ball and try to hit the stumps. First match sets the tone and we have a lot of positives. We want to play like and keep winning,” concluded Deepti Sharma.
India Women will play their next game against Pakistan on October 05 at R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.
