Captain Harmanpreet Kaur led from the front with a commanding 68 off 43 balls, while India’s bowlers delivered a disciplined collective effort to seal a 5–0 whitewash over Sri Lanka in the five-match T20I series. The hosts capped off a memorable 2025 season with another emphatic win at home.
The clean sweep also marked India Women’s third 5–0 victory in a bilateral T20I series, following similar results against West Indies in 2019 and Bangladesh in 2024. India rested star player Smriti Mandhana for the match and had G Kamalini play her first T20I match as a replacement.
Kamalini opened the innings with a score of 12. Harmanpreet’s innings provided India the necessary security in the middle overs and propelled them to 175 runs with a total of 7 wickets down. Sri Lanka’s bowlers did a commendable job; each of Kavisha Dilhari, Chamari Athapaththu, and Rashmika Sewwandi took 2 wickets.
In reply, Arundhati Reddy derailed Sri Lanka’s chase by removing the very threatening Athapaththu in the second over of the match, who scored just two runs on that occasion. Although Sri Lanka lost an early wicket, they began to build momentum as Hasini Perera and Imesha Dulani formed a strong second-wicket partnership, contributing 79 runs.
Dulani’s innings, which was her first T20I fifty, ended with her being stumped out by Amanjot Kaur in the 12th over after scoring 50 runs off 39 balls. Perera continued to shine for Sri Lanka, reaching her first T20I fifty in just eight matches—recorded as the second most number of innings taken by a full-member team to achieve their first fifty in T20I matches. She scored 81 runs from 42 balls, hitting eight fours and one six, but succumbed to Shree Charani’s bowling in the seventeenth over.
After the two fifties, the middle and lower order for Sri Lanka crumbled, with only Rashmika Sewwandi making it to double figures, finishing with an unbeaten score of 14 runs from eight balls.
On the bowling side, India were outstanding, with six players collecting at least one wicket. Deepti Sharma set a record, becoming the leading wicket-taker in Women’s T20I after removing Nilakshi de Silva, while Sneh Rana and Shree Charani both finished with identical figures of 1/31.
As a result of this latest loss to India and earlier defeats in a five-game T20I series against the West Indies, Sri Lanka’s woes have continued, leaving them at 0-5 in the series against both of these excellent teams.
Brief scores:
India Women 175/7 in 20 overs (Harmanpreet Kaur 68, Arundhati Reddy 27; Kavisha Dilhari 2-11, Chamari Athapaththu 2-21) beat Sri Lanka Women 160/7 in 20 overs (Hasini Perera 65, Imesha Dulani 50; Deepti Sharma 1-28, Sneh Rana 1-31) by 15 runs.