India have lorded over their 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 combat.
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 prime.
However the administration could possibly be much more happy with the way in which bowlers responded to the problem, notably Deepti Sharma and Renuka Singh.
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 price throughout 4 matches has been good – 4.37 and 4.31 respectively. It ensured that the opposition batters haven’t any respiration house on the prime or within the middle-overs, phases when Renuka and Deepti usually function.
It has additionally aided different bowlers, as batters usually search for aid pictures towards them, and left-arm spinner Radha Yadav presents a first-rate 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, they might simply be a tad involved concerning the lack of batting time for skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues.
Harmanpreet has batted simply twice in three matches, though she made a riveting 66 in considered one of them, whereas Rodrigues is but to hit the highest gear right here in three innings.
The assume tank will hope that these skilled campaigners can discover their vary, if the scenario involves that.
“They won’t have gotten that a lot time within the center, however everyone seems to be working onerous at nets, and I’m positive they’ll hearth when the time comes,” wicketkeeper batter Richa Ghosh had mentioned.
However, Sri Lanka too are undefeated on this occasion they usually even have scored the largest victory when it comes to runs – a 144-run toweling of Malaysia within the group stage.
The first motive behind their supremacy is the nice type of skipper Chamari Athapathuthu, the main run-scorer right here with 243 runs.
But it surely additionally has a bleaker aspect to it. Aside from Athapathuthu none of their batters have scored over 100 runs with Rushmi Gunarathne a distant second for them with 91 runs.
Their bowling too presents an identical 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 them.
Groups (from): 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.
