Dubai. Without any changes, India won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the crucial Group A match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 at the Dubai International Stadium on Wednesday. The last time these two teams faced each other, Sri Lanka defeated India to win their first Women’s Asia Cup title in Dambulla in July.
India need a huge win against Sri Lanka, who are yet to win their two T20 World Cup matches, to improve their net run rate of -1.217 and boost their chances of entering the semi-finals. Can be kept. Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur said that till now we have not batted first, so thought we will bat and put a good score on the board. Feeling better (about the neck injury), if we play better cricket then maybe I will feel better.
We played good cricket in the Asia Cup, one day (if we talk about the final, India lost to Sri Lanka) they played good cricket. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has included Ama Kanchana in the playing eleven in place of Hasini Perera. Captain Chamri Athapaththu has called on his team to play fearless cricket in their first match of the tournament in Dubai. He said that we are sticking to our plans and hope to play our best cricket today. We have to play fearless cricket and it is very important to make smart choices. The powerplay is really important and after that we have to rotate the strike.
Playing XI:
India: Shefali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Deepti Sharma, Sajeevan Sajna, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Asha Shobhana and Renuka Singh Thakur.
Sri Lanka: Vishmi Gunaratne, Chamri Athapaththu (captain), Harshitha Samarawickrama, Kavisha Dilhari, Neelakshi de Silva, Anushka Sanjeevani (wk), Ama Kanchan A, Sugandhika Kumari, Inoshi Priyadarshini, Udeshika Prabodhini and Inoka Ranaweera.