Sri Lanka won the Women’s T20 Asia Cup for the first time
Womens Asia Cup T20 Final Match Report: Sri Lanka’s women’s team, under the captaincy of Chamari Atapattu, won the final match of the Women’s T20 Asia Cup 2024 against India by a one-sided 8 wickets. In this match, the Indian team decided to bat first after winning the toss, after which, on the basis of Smriti Mandhana’s innings of 60 runs, Team India scored 165 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. In response, a brilliant batting performance was seen from the Sri Lankan women’s team and Chamari Atapattu and Harshita Samarawickrama played an important role in helping their team win by 8 wickets by scoring half-centuries. The Sri Lankan team has won the Asia Cup trophy for the first time.
The partnership of Chamari Atapattu and Harshita played an important role in Sri Lanka’s victory
Sri Lanka’s team got a target of 166 runs in this match, after which their start was not good and they lost their first wicket in the form of Vishmi Gunaratne at a score of 7. From here, Sri Lankan team captain Chamari Atapattu, along with Harshita Samarawickrama, handled the innings and did not let the team suffer any further setback in the first 6 overs and took the score to 44 runs. In this match, the Sri Lankan team suffered the second setback at a score of 94 in the form of captain Atapattu, who was bowled by Deepti Sharma after scoring 61 runs in 43 balls with the help of 9 fours and 2 sixes.
From here, Harshitha Samarawickrama took the responsibility of making the team win and played an important role in achieving the target in 18.4 overs along with Kashvi Dilhari. While Harshitha played an unbeaten innings of 69 runs in 51 balls, Kashvi scored an unbeaten 30 runs in 16 balls. Sri Lanka’s team has been successful in winning the trophy in the Women’s Asia Cup for the first time.
Smriti Mandhana played a half-century innings for India
If we talk about the innings of the Indian team in the final match, only Smriti Mandhana was able to play a big innings. Mandhana scored 60 runs in 47 balls in this match in which she hit 10 fours. Apart from her, Richa Ghosh scored 30 and Jemima scored 29 runs. Before the upcoming Women’s T20 World Cup, the defeat of the Indian team in this final match is no less than a big shock for them because they have won the Asia Cup tournament 7 times so far.
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