India Women’s National Cricket Team vs Sri Lanka Women Match Scorecard ICC Women’s World Cup 2025

India was in serious trouble at 121 for 5. Five wickets gone. The top order dismantled. Ranaweera on a spell that looked unplayable at the time.

What happened next is what separates teams with depth from teams without it.

India Women defeated Sri Lanka Women by 59 runs (DLS Method) in the opening match of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 at Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati. The full India women’s national cricket team vs Sri Lanka women’s match scorecard tells a story in two halves: a collapse that nearly derailed the innings, and a recovery that ultimately won the match.

Match Summary at a Glance

India Women won by 59 runs (DLS Method). India posted 269/8 in 47 overs. Sri Lanka were bowled out for 211 in 45.4 overs. The DLS target, revised due to a brief weather interruption, remained comfortably beyond Sri Lanka’s reach from the 30th over onwards.

Detail	Information
Match	1st Match, ICC Women’s World Cup 2025
Venue	Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati
Toss	Sri Lanka Women won, elected to field
Result	India Women won by 59 runs (DLS Method)
India Score	269/8 in 47 overs
Sri Lanka Score	211 all out (45.4 overs)
Player of the Match	Deepti Sharma (53 runs + 3/54)

Match By The Numbers

A quick statistical snapshot of how the two teams compared across the key metrics.

Metric	India Women	Sri Lanka Women
Total Runs	269/8	211 all out
Overs Faced	47	45.4
Boundaries (4s)	28	21
Sixes	4	4
Top Score	Amanjot Kaur 57	Chamari Athapaththu 43
Best Bowling	Deepti Sharma 3/54	Inoka Ranaweera 4/46
Extras	15	14
Partnerships 50+	2 (103 + 52)	1 (52)

India Women Batting Scorecard

India’s innings had two completely different stories inside 47 overs. The top order managed respectable starts but gifted wickets under pressure. The lower order produced the most impactful batting of the entire match, adding 145 runs after the sixth wicket fell.

Top Order: Starts Without Substance

India’s openers laid a platform. Pratika Rawal’s 37 off 59 balls was composed, and Harleen Deol’s 48 off 64 looked like it would build into a major innings. But both were dismissed by Ranaweera at critical moments.

What most coverage missed: Ranaweera was not bowling unplayable deliveries. She was bowling disciplined off-spin on a surface offering minimal turn. India’s middle-order batters, Harmanpreet Kaur (21), Jemimah Rodrigues (0) were dismissed through poor footwork and indeterminate shot selection, not outright brilliance from the bowler.

• Smriti Mandhana: 8 off 10 (c Gunaratne b Prabodhani)
• Pratika Rawal: 37 off 59 (c Gunaratne b Ranaweera)
• Harleen Deol: 48 off 64 (c Dilhari b Ranaweera)
• Harmanpreet Kaur (c): 21 off 19 (c Sanjeewani b Ranaweera)
• Jemimah Rodrigues: 0 off 1 (b Ranaweera)

The crisis: India collapsed from 81/1 to 124/6 inside seven overs. Ranaweera’s 4-wicket burst was clinical in its timing, not necessarily its quality.

Lower Order: Where the Match Was Won

This is the part of India women’s national cricket team vs Sri Lanka women’s match scorecard that most quick recaps skim over. Three players, Deepti Sharma, Amanjot Kaur, and Sneh Rana, collectively scored 138 runs after the fifth wicket fell.

• Deepti Sharma: 53 off 53 balls, 3 fours, 0 sixes, SR 100.00
• Amanjot Kaur: 57 off 56 balls, 5 fours, 1 six, SR 101.79
• Sneh Rana: 28* off 15 balls,2 fours, 2 sixes, SR 186.67
• Richa Ghosh (wk): 2 off 6 (early dismissal)

Unique insight: Deepti Sharma batting at a strike rate of exactly 100 from the No. 6 position is textbook anchor batting. She did not slog. She rotated strike, absorbed pressure for 53 deliveries, and created space for Amanjot to attack freely. That role clarity within a partnership is rarely analyzed; it should be.

India Women’s Full Batting Card

Batter	Dismissal	R	B	4s	6s	SR
Pratika Rawal	c Gunaratne b Ranaweera	37	59	3	1	62.71
Smriti Mandhana	c Gunaratne b Prabodhani	8	10	2	0	80.00
Harleen Deol	c Dilhari b Ranaweera	48	64	6	0	75.00
Harmanpreet Kaur (c)	c Sanjeewani b Ranaweera	21	19	2	0	110.53
Jemimah Rodrigues	b Ranaweera	0	1	0	0	0.00
Deepti Sharma	c Dasanayaka b Kulasuriya	53	53	3	0	100.00
Richa Ghosh (wk)	c Prabodhani b Athapaththu	2	6	0	0	33.33
Amanjot Kaur	c Gunaratne b Prabodhani	57	56	5	1	101.79
Sneh Rana	not out	28	15	2	2	186.67
Extras	5lb, 1nb, 9w	15	—	—	—	—
Total	269/8 (47 overs)

Fall of Wickets

14-1 (Mandhana, 3.2) | 81-2 (Rawal, 19.2) | 120-3 (Deol, 25.1) | 120-4 (Rodrigues, 25.2) | 121-5 (Harmanpreet, 25.5) | 124-6 (Ghosh, 26.6) | 227-7 (Amanjot, 43.3) | 269-8 (Deepti, 46.6)

The jump from 124/6 to 227/7 is the match in one line. India scored 145 runs after the sixth wicket fell. That is not a lower-order cameo. That is a match-defining contribution.

Key Partnerships India Women

The Deepti-Amanjot partnership was the single most decisive moment of this match. Without it, India were heading for 180–190. With it, they reached 269.

Partnership	Batters	Runs	Wicket
67	Rawal + Deol	67	3rd
103	Deepti + Amanjot	103	7th
42	Sneh Rana + Deepti	42	8th
52	Athapaththu + Samarawickrama (SL)	52	2nd

The 103-run seventh-wicket stand between Deepti and Amanjot is the highest partnership of the match by a margin of 36 runs. For context: India’s entire top order collectively managed 114 runs across five wickets. The lower order added 155.

Sri Lanka Women Bowling Scorecard

Inoka Ranaweera’s 4/46 headlined Sri Lanka’s bowling, but the real story is what happened before and after her burst. Sri Lanka’s bowling attack was disciplined in patches but failed to finish India off when the tail was exposed.

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Achini Kulasuriya	8	0	42	1	5.25
Chamani Prabodhani	10	1	55	2	5.50
Sugandika Dasanayaka	9	0	46	0	5.11
Kavisha Dilhari	8	0	51	0	6.37
Inoka Ranaweera	9	0	46	4	5.11
Chamari Athapaththu	3	0	24	1	8.00

Here is what’s counterintuitive: Ranaweera’s economy of 5.11 is ordinary for a spinner in 47-over ODI cricket. Her impact came from one concentrated burst in overs 25–27. Before and after that burst, India’s lower order attacked her freely. Sri Lanka’s error was not deploying a seamer-heavy attack when India were six down. Allowing Deepti and Amanjot to settle against spin on a flattening pitch was a tactical miscalculation that cost Sri Lanka 80+ runs.

Sri Lanka Women Batting Scorecard

Sri Lanka needed to chase 269 under DLS. The target was achievable only if Chamari Athapaththu batted deep. She did not. Her dismissal in the 15th over was the moment Sri Lanka’s chase effectively ended.

The Athapaththu Problem

Chamari Athapaththu scored 43 off 47 balls and was the only batter in Sri Lanka’s top order to provide genuine forward momentum. Her footwork against spin was the cleanest in the Sri Lanka innings; she hit four fours and three sixes, showing intent and clarity. But she fell to Deepti Sharma at 82/2 in the 15th over. Sri Lanka needed her batting into the 35th over minimum to have any realistic path to the target.

Middle Order Collapse: The Persistent Problem

After Athapaththu departed, Sri Lanka scored just 53 runs across the next four wickets. Gunaratne (11 off 28), Dilhari (15 off 12), and Sanjeewani (6 off 10) offered no consolidation.

What people think vs. reality: Many cricket fans view Sri Lanka Women as a genuinely improving side capable of challenging India closely. The reality visible in this scorecard and supported by their recent tournament record is that Sri Lanka’s batting positions 4 through 7 have a consistent inability to score at the required rate once the top order departs. Their openers can entertain. Their lower order occasionally chips in. But there is no reliable second-tier scorer in the middle order, and this match exposed that gap completely.

Lower Order Resistance

Nilakshi de Silva’s 35 off 29 balls at No. 6 showed exactly the kind of aggression Sri Lanka’s middle order lacked. Achini Kulasuriya’s 17 off 31 and Prabodhani’s unbeaten 14 off 26 provided respectability, but by this point, the DLS target required a run rate beyond Sri Lanka’s realistic capacity.

Sri Lanka Women Full Batting Card

Batter	Dismissal	R	B	4s	6s	SR
Hasini Perera	b Gaud	14	20	2	0	70.00
Chamari Athapaththu (c)	b Deepti	43	47	4	3	91.49
Harshitha Samarawickrama	lbw b Sree Charani	29	45	3	0	64.44
Vishmi Gunaratne	lbw b Amanjot	11	28	0	0	39.29
Kavisha Dilhari	c Ghosh b Deepti	15	12	2	0	125.00
Nilakshi de Silva	b Rana	35	29	4	1	120.69
Anushka Sanjeewani (wk)	c Harmanpreet b Deepti	6	10	1	0	60.00
Sugandika Dasanayaka	b Rana	10	19	0	0	52.63
Achini Kulasuriya	c Mandhana b Sree Charani	17	31	3	0	54.84
Chamani Prabodhani	not out	14	26	2	0	53.85
Inoka Ranaweera	lbw b Rawal	3	8	0	0	37.50
Extras	4lb, 1nb, 9w	14	—	—	—	—
Total	211 all out (45.4 overs)

Fall of Wickets Sri Lanka

30-1 (Perera, 6.2) | 82-2 (Athapaththu, 15.1) | 111-3 (Samarawickrama, 22.4) | 120-4 (Gunaratne, 27.3) | 135-5 (Dilhari, 30.2) | 160-6 (Sanjeewani, 36.1) | 179-7 (de Silva, 39.4) | 190-8 (Dasanayaka, 41.3) | 205-9 (Kulasuriya, 44.2) | 211-10 (Ranaweera, 45.4)

India Women Bowling: How They Dismantled Sri Lanka

India’s bowlers executed a clear, structured plan: use pace early, hand over to spin in the middle overs, and finish with variety. It worked almost exactly as designed.

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Kranti Gaud	9	0	41	1	4.55
Amanjot Kaur	6	0	37	1	6.16
Sneh Rana	10	0	32	2	3.20
Deepti Sharma	10	1	54	3	5.40
Sree Charani	8	0	37	2	4.62
Pratika Rawal	2.4	0	6	1	2.25

Sneh Rana’s 2/32 in 10 overs at an economy of 3.20 is the most underrated bowling performance of this entire match. In the same game where she hit 28* off 15 balls, she then came back and strangled Sri Lanka’s middle order through relentlessly tight off-spin across 10 overs. She was the most complete player on the field.

Deepti Sharma’s 3/54 removed the three most dangerous Sri Lankan batters, Athapaththu, Dilhari, and Sanjeewani, at the moments when they could have shifted the game’s momentum. That is not a coincidence. That is match awareness from an experienced player who knew exactly who posed the greatest threat.

Why India Won Despite Being 121 for 5

This is the section most scorecard articles skip entirely. The real reason India won from a position of 121/5 comes down to five specific factors:

• Deepti Sharma anchored. She did not panic. She rotated strike, defended when needed, and trusted Amanjot to score at the other end.
• Amanjot Kaur accelerated. Her strike rate of 101.79 under pressure shows controlled aggression, not recklessness.
• Sneh Rana finished the innings. Her 28* off 15 added runs that pushed India from a competitive to a commanding total.
• Sri Lanka did not attack the tail. They persisted with spin when seamers and yorkers were the logical choice against lower-order batters.
• India’s spinners controlled overs 15–40. Rana and Deepti combined for 20 overs at a combined economy of 4.30, which dried up Sri Lanka’s scoring in their most critical phase.

Key Turning Points of the Match

Three moments define this match. Everything else is context.

Turning Point 1 The Collapse (Overs 25–27)

India went from 81/1 to 124/6 in less than seven overs. Four Ranaweera wickets in one burst. This was the moment Sri Lanka sensed a path to restricting India under 200. It did not materialise.

Turning Point 2 The Deepti-Amanjot Partnership (Overs 27–43)

103 runs for the 7th wicket. This partnership showed exceptional role clarity under pressure; one batter anchored while the other attacked. India added 103 runs in 16 overs while losing only one wicket. This directly turned a potential 185 into 269.

Turning Point 3 Athapaththu’s Dismissal (Over 15)

Sri Lanka were 82/2 with Chamari Athapaththu in full flow. She had hit three sixes. She was batting with purpose. Her dismissal of Deepti Sharma at that moment fundamentally shifted the psychological balance of Sri Lanka’s chase. No batter who followed could replicate her authority.

Tactical Insights Captaincy and Strategy

Harmanpreet Kaur deployed Sneh Rana and Deepti Sharma in tandem through overs 15–35, targeting Sri Lanka’s right-handed middle order with consistent off-spin. Rana’s economy rate of 3.20 and Deepti’s three critical wickets confirm that this was the correct strategic call.

Sri Lanka’s toss decision to field first on a Guwahati pitch was defensible in isolation. But the pitch flattened significantly in the second half of India’s innings. The real strategic error was maintaining spin-heavy bowling when India were six down. A seam attack aimed at targeting lower-order feet would have been more effective in those circumstances.

Original observation: India Women’s genuine strength in this ICC Women’s World Cup era is not their top order, it is a batting lineup deliberately constructed to score runs at every position down to No. 9. Sneh Rana’s 28* off 15 is not a surprise. It is the visible result of a squad built with batting depth as a non-negotiable priority.

India Women vs Sri Lanka Women Head-to-Head Record (Recent)

Indian women have dominated Sri Lankan women comprehensively across all formats in 2024–25. This context is essential when reading the India women’s national cricket team vs Sri Lanka women’s match scorecard from the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 in isolation.

Series	Format	Result
Sri Lanka Women Tri-Nation 2025 (1st Match)	ODI	India won by 9 wkts
Sri Lanka Women Tour of India 2025 (T20I 1)	T20I	India won by 8 wkts
Sri Lanka Women Tour of India 2025 (T20I 2)	T20I	India won
Sri Lanka Women Tour of India 2025 (T20I 3)	T20I	India won
Sri Lanka Women Tour of India 2025 (T20I 4)	T20I	India won
Sri Lanka Women Tour of India 2025 (T20I 5)	T20I	India won
ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 (Match 1)	ODI	India won by 59 runs (DLS)

India has not lost a bilateral series against Sri Lanka Women in recent memory. The 5-0 T20I sweep in December 2025 was followed directly by this World Cup ODI win, confirming that India’s multi-format dominance over Sri Lanka is structural, not situational.

Powerplay Comparison

India’s powerplay (10 overs): 54/1. Steady, conservative, platform-building.
Sri Lanka’s powerplay (10 overs): 45/1. Similar start, but the required rate was already climbing.

The difference is not in the power play. It is in what came after. India’s lower order added 145 runs after losing their 6th wicket. Sri Lanka’s batting collapse from position 3 onwards, losing 9 wickets for 129 runs, is the true story of this match.

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