India vs Sri Lanka, Women’s Asia Cup 2022 Final Live Scorecard: India beat Sri Lanka by 8 wickets

India-W vs Sri Lanka-W (IND-W vs SL-W) Final T20 Asia Cup 2022: India defeated Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the final of the Women’s Asia Cup. Team India has become the champion for the seventh time in a row. Both the teams have met in the final of Asia Cup five times and each time India has defeated Sri Lanka. India has won this tournament the most seven times, while Sri Lanka’s team has lost in the final for the fifth time. Batting first, Sri Lanka won the toss and set a target of 66 runs in front of India and Team India achieved it by losing two wickets.

India won the match by eight wickets
India defeated Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the final of the Women’s Asia Cup. Batting first, Sri Lanka scored 65 runs for the loss of nine wickets. In reply, India scored 71 runs in 8.3 overs for the loss of two wickets and won the match by eight wickets. Smriti Mandhana ends the match with a six. He played an unbeaten innings of 51 runs in 25 balls. During this, his bat hit six fours and three sixes. Captain Harmanpreet remained unbeaten on 11 off 14 balls. Kavisha Dilhari and Ranveera took a wicket each for Sri Lanka.

Renuka Singh took three wickets for India in the bowling, while Rajeshwari Gaikwad and Sneh Rana got two wickets each. At the same time, Ranvira scored the highest 18 runs for Sri Lanka. Apart from him, only Ranasinghe could touch the double figure, who scored 13 runs.

So far, the Women’s Asia Cup has been organized eight times and the Indian team has reached the final every time. It has won seven times, while Bangladesh won the tournament in 2018 by defeating India in the final.

Sri Lankan batting flop
Batting first, Sri Lanka’s team performed very poorly. The opening pair of captain Chamari Attapattu and wicketkeeper Anushka Sanjeevani got off to a slow start. The Sri Lankan team got the first blow on the score of eight runs in the third over. Captain Chamari Atapattu was run out after scoring six runs in 12 balls. This is where the fall of Sri Lanka started. The team’s second wicket fell on the score of nine runs. Renuka Singh got Madhavi caught by wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh. He scored one run in five balls. Sri Lanka’s third wicket fell on this score. Opener Sanjeevani was run out after scoring four runs in two balls. On the very next ball, Renuka got Hasini Perera caught by Smriti Mandhana and Sri Lanka lost four wickets. Half of the Sri Lankan team had returned to the pavilion inside the powerplay. Renuka clean bowled Kavisha Dilhari and gave Sri Lanka the fifth blow.

Rajeshwari Gaikwad gave India the sixth breakthrough by bowling Nilakshi de Silva. Nilakshi scored six runs in eight balls. Sri Lanka’s score at this time was 18 runs. Sneh Rana caught the catch of Shehani on his own ball and gave the seventh blow to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s score at this time was 25 runs. In the end the tail batsmen did better. Ranasinghe became the victim of Rajeshwari Gaikwad after scoring 13 runs in 20 balls. Sneh Rana gave the ninth blow to Sri Lanka by bowling Sugandhika Kumari. Sugandhika scored six runs in 24 balls. However, for the last wicket, Kulsuriya and Ranveer shared 22 runs to take their team’s score to 66 runs.