India women's cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2018–19

The India women's cricket team played the Sri Lanka women's cricket team in September 2018.[1][2][3] The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), which formed part of the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship,[4] and five Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches.[5] The matches were played in Galle, Katunayake and Colombo.[6][7] India Women won the WODI series 2–1,[8] and the WT20I series 4–0, after the second match finished in a no result.[9]

India women's cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2018–19
	Sri Lanka women	India women
Dates	11 – 25 September 2018
Captains	Chamari Atapattu	Mithali Raj (WODIs) Harmanpreet Kaur (WT20Is)
One Day International series
Results	India women won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Chamari Atapattu (205)	Mithali Raj (177)
Most wickets	Chamari Atapattu (4)	Mansi Joshi (7)
Twenty20 International series
Results	India women won the 5-match series 4–0
Most runs	Chamari Athapaththu (107)	Jemimah Rodrigues (191)
Most wickets	Shashikala Siriwardene (5) Chamari Athapaththu (5)	Poonam Yadav (8)

Squads

WODIs		WT20Is
Sri Lanka[10]	India[11]	Sri Lanka[12]	India[13]
Chamari Atapattu (c) Kavisha Dilhari Nipuni Hansika Ama Kanchana Sugandika Kumari Dilani Manodara Imalka Mendis Hasini Perera Udeshika Prabodhani Inoka Ranaweera Anushka Sanjeewani Nilakshi de Silva Shashikala Siriwardene Prasadani Weerakkody Sripali Weerakkody	Mithali Raj (c) Harmanpreet Kaur (vc) Taniya Bhatia (wk) Ekta Bisht Rajeshwari Gayakwad Jhulan Goswami Dayalan Hemalatha Mansi Joshi Veda Krishnamurthy Smriti Mandhana Shikha Pandey Punam Raut Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Poonam Yadav	Chamari Athapaththu (c) Kavisha Dilhari Ama Kanchana Eshani Kaushalya Sugandika Kumari Dilani Manodara Imalka Mendis Yashoda Mendis Hasini Perera Udeshika Prabodhani Inoshi Priyadharshani Oshadi Ranasinghe Sharina Ravikumar Anushka Sanjeewani Nilakshi de Silva Shashikala Siriwardene Rebeca Vandort Sripali Weerakkody	Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Smriti Mandhana (vc) Taniya Bhatia (wk) Ekta Bisht Dayalan Hemalatha Mansi Joshi Veda Krishnamurthy Shikha Pandey Anuja Patil Mithali Raj Arundhati Reddy Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Poonam Yadav Radha Yadav

WODI series

1st WODI

ICC Women's Championship 11 September 2018 10:00 Scorecard

Sri Lanka  98 (35.1 overs)	v	India 100/1 (19.5 overs)
Chamari Atapattu 33 (93) Mansi Joshi 3/16 (6.1 overs)		Smriti Mandhana 73* (76) Inoka Ranaweera 1/5 (2 overs)

India Women won by 9 wickets Galle International Stadium, Galle Umpires: Deepal Gunawardene (SL) and Ranmore Martinesz (SL)

• Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Dayalan Hemalatha and Taniya Bhatia (Ind) both made their WODI debuts.
• Mithali Raj (Ind) made the most appearances as a captain in WODIs (118 matches).[14]
• Jhulan Goswami (Ind) took her 300th wicket in international cricket.[15]
• Poonam Yadav became the second-fastest bowler for India to take 50 wickets in WODIs.[14]
• Points: India Women 2, Sri Lanka Women 0.

2nd WODI

ICC Women's Championship 13 September 2018 10:00 Scorecard

India  219 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 212 (48.1 overs)
Taniya Bhatia 68 (66) Chamari Atapattu 3/42 (8 overs)		Chamari Atapattu 57 (95) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/37 (9 overs)

India Women won by 7 runs Galle International Stadium, Galle Umpires: Prageeth Rambukwella (SL) and Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL)

• India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India Women 2, Sri Lanka Women 0.

3rd WODI

ICC Women's Championship 16 September 2018 10:00 Scorecard

India  253/5 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 257/7 (49.5 overs)
Mithali Raj 125* (143) Udeshika Prabodhani 1/20 (4 overs)		Chamari Atapattu 115 (133) Jhulan Goswami 2/39 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka Women won by 3 wickets FTZ Sports Complex, Katunayake Umpires: Hemantha Boteju (SL) and Lyndon Hannibal (SL)

• Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to field.
• This was Sri Lanka Women's highest successful run chase in WODIs.[8]
• Points: Sri Lanka Women 2, India Women 0.

WT20I series

1st WT20I

19 September 2018 10.00 Scorecard

India  168/8 (20 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 155 (19.3 overs)
Taniya Bhatia 46 (35) Udeshika Prabodhani 2/18 (4 overs)		Eshani Kaushalya 45 (31) Poonam Yadav 4/26 (4 overs)

India Women won by 13 runs FTZ Sports Complex, Katunayake Umpires: Ranmore Martinesz (SL) and Pradeep Udawatta (SL)

• Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Kavisha Dilhari (SL) and Arundhati Reddy (Ind) both made their WT20I debuts.

2nd WT20I

21 September 2018 10.00 Scorecard

Sri Lanka  49/3 (7.5 overs)	v	India
Chamari Athapaththu 21 (16) Poonam Yadav 1/2 (1 over)

No result Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Pradeep Udawatta (SL) and Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL)

• India Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain during Sri Lanka Women's innings prevented any further play.

3rd WT20I

22 September 2018 10.00 Scorecard

Sri Lanka  131/8 (20 overs)	v	India 132/5 (18.2 overs)
Shashikala Siriwardene 35 (32) Harmanpreet Kaur 2/3 (1 over)		Jemimah Rodrigues 57 (40) Chamari Athapaththu 2/29 (4 overs)

India Women won by 5 wickets Colombo Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Lyndon Hannibal (SL) and Prageeth Rambukwella (SL)

• India Women won the toss and elected to field.

4th WT20I

24 September 2018 10.00 Scorecard

Sri Lanka  134/5 (17 overs)	v	India 137/3 (15.4 overs)
Shashikala Siriwardene 40 (32) Anuja Patil 3/36 (4 overs)		Anuja Patil 54* (42) Oshadi Ranasinghe 3/33 (3.4 overs)

India Women won by 7 wickets Colombo Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Hemantha Boteju (SL) and Ranmore Martinesz (SL)

• India Women won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced to 17 overs per side due to rain.

5th WT20I

25 September 2018 10.00 Scorecard

India  156 (18.3 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 105 (17.4 overs)
Harmanpreet Kaur 63 (38) Shashikala Siriwardene 3/19 (3.3 overs)		Anushka Sanjeewani 29 (37) Poonam Yadav 3/18 (4 overs)

India Women won by 51 runs FTZ Sports Complex, Katunayake Umpires: Prageeth Rambukwella (SL) and Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL)

• Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to field.

References

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External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo