Defending champion India will look to translate its overwhelming dominance within the Ladies’s Asia Cup to a record-extending eighth title whereas dealing with a feisty Sri Lanka within the remaining in Dambulla on Sunday.
India has lorded over its opponents on this continental showpiece – hammering Pakistan by seven wickets and adopted it up with facile wins over UAE (78 runs), Nepal (82 runs), and Bangladesh (10 wickets).
India’s top-order batters and bowlers fired in tandem, not giving their rivals even an iota of likelihood to mount a struggle.
Openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma have scored properly in extra of 100 runs and at a wholesome strike-rate of over 140, giving India solidity and fast begins alike on the high.
However the administration might be much more happy with the best way bowlers responded to the problem, notably Deepti Sharma and Renuka Singh.
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Deepti is the main wicket-taker of this occasion with 9 wickets and Renuka is third on the chart with seven scalps.
However their economic system charge throughout 4 matches has been sensible – 4.37 and 4.31 respectively. It ensured that the opposition batters don’t have any respiration area on the high or within the center overs, phases when Renuka and Deepti usually function.
It has additionally aided different bowlers, as batters usually search for aid photographs towards them, and left-arm spinner Radha Yadav affords a major instance.
She has taken six wickets at an economic system of 5.5, whereas feeding on the success of her senior colleagues’ success.
Whereas there is no such thing as a palpable fear within the Indian camp, it might simply be a tad involved in regards to the lack of batting time for skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues.
Harmanpreet has batted simply twice in three matches, although she made a riveting 66 in one among them, whereas Rodrigues is but to hit the highest gear in three innings.
The suppose tank will hope that these skilled campaigners can discover their vary, if the state of affairs involves that.
“They won’t have gotten that a lot time within the center, however everyone seems to be working laborious at nets, and I’m positive they are going to fireplace when the time comes,” wicketkeeper batter Richa Ghosh had stated.
However, Sri Lanka too is undefeated on this occasion and it additionally has scored the largest victory by way of runs – a 144-run toweling of Malaysia within the group stage.
The first purpose behind its supremacy is the positive type of skipper Chamari Athapaththu, the main run-scorer with 243 runs.
Nevertheless it additionally has a bleaker facet to it. Aside from Athapaththu, none of its batters has scored over 100 runs with Rushmi Gunarathne a distant second with 91 runs.
Its bowling too affords an analogous story. Besides off-spinner Kavisha Dilhari (7 wickets, economic system 5.35), others Lankan bowlers have did not make an affect as but.
In that context, the Islanders would require a fast all-round enchancment towards a settled India to have a smidgeon of likelihood even to stretch it.
SQUADS
India: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Uma Chetry (wk), Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Sobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sajana Sajeevan
Sri Lanka: Chamari Athapaththu (c), Anushka Sanjeewani, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Hasini Perera, Ama Kanchana, Udeshika Prabodani, Vishmi Gunarathne, Kawya Kavindi, Inoshi Priyadarshani, Sugandika Kumari, Achini Kulasooriya, Kaveesha Dilhari, Nilakshi De Silva, Sachini Nisansala, Shashini Gimhani.