🏏Indian Women's tour of SriLanka 2022 - 1st ODI - Pallekele🏏 - Page 10

IND: 152/6 after 35 overs.

Need 20 runs in 90balls at 1.3 RPO

IND:156/6 after 36 overs.

Need 16 runs in 84 balls.

IND: 161/1 after 37 overs.

Deepti Sharma: 21(39b)

Pooja Vastrakar: 8(14b)

India need 11 runs in 78 balls.

SIX By Pooja 🥳🥳

India needs 3 runs from truck load of balls

India 169/6 after 37.3 overs.

Need 3runs in 75 balls.

What a winning shot👏

SIX by Pooja🥳

India WON by 4wickets.

Congratulations to team India for the win.🥳

They won it in style. Pooja hit the winning runs.

Cheers..

Congratulations to Team India🥳

That was an exciting win.

A fairly competent batting performance from India then, as they chased down 172 on a tricky pitch. Smriti Mandhana and Yastika Bhatia fell early, but Shafali Verma kept things ticking over alongside Harmanpreet Kaur. The Indian captain and Harleen Deol put on a crucial 62-run partnership after the fall of the Shafali, racking up the runs at a fast clip.

Inoka Ranaweera claimed Kaur for a well-paced 44, and picked off Deol soon after for 34, thus causing consternation in what had seemed a fairly comfortable chase until that point. The Lankan spinner grabbed her fourth with Richa Ghosh's wicket with just 34 to get and four wickets left.

However, Deepti Sharma and Pooja Vastrakar held their nerve to see the innings through and giving India the victory with 12 overs to spare.