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Harmanpreet Kaur, Arundhati Reddy's heroics guide India to clean sweep Sri Lanka 5-0

Aakash Saini

Harmanpreet Kaur celebrating her fifty [Source: @BCCIWomen/x]Harmanpreet Kaur celebrating her fifty [Source: @BCCIWomen/x]

Team India Women completed a 5-0 demolition of Sri Lanka by comprehensively winning the fifth T20I of their five-match series. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur demonstrated her batting excellence before bowlers collectively doused Sri Lanka’s rampaging effort.

Here, we take a look at the entire highlights from the fifth T20I of the five-match series between India Women and Sri Lanka Women, as it panned out at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday, December 30.

Harmanpreet Kaur combats Dilhari, Athapaththu to bolt India to 175

India Women batted first and lost five of their top six batters around the halfway stage of the innings at 77, with in-form opener Shafali Verma making just five and teenage debutant Gunalan Kamalini getting trapped in front for a run-a-ball 12.

Captain Harmanpreet Kaur led her side from the front, smearing 68 from 43 balls with nine fours and a six and forging a counterattacking partnership with Amanjot Kaur (21 off 18). Arundhati Reddy blasted 27* off just 11 balls with four fours and a six to add finishing touches to the innings as India Women mounted 175-7 in 20 overs.

For Sri Lanka, ace spinner Kavisha Dilhari picked up a couple of important wickets at an expense of just 11 runs in her two-over spell. Rashmika Sewwandi (2-42) and captain Chamari Athapaththu (2-21) also chipped in with two scalps each in their combined seven overs.

Bowlers unite to stop Perera rampage as India sweep 5-0

Sri Lanka opener Hasini Perera got her team off to a flier with a calculated 42-ball 65, despite losing senior partner and captain Chamari Athapaththu for just two in the second over of the run-chase to Arundhati Reddy (1-16). Imesha Dulani at number three also clattered 50 runs off 39 balls to lead Sri Lankan command early in the innings.

However, following her dismissal to Amanjot Kaur (1-17), the entire Sri Lankan line-up crumbled and managed to reach just 160-7 in 20 overs, thus falling 15 runs short to hand India Women a comprehensive 5-0 series sweep. Each of the six Indian bowlers employed by captain Harmanpreet Kaur ended up taking a wicket each to demonstrate a complete team effort.