Sri Lanka Won the Women's Asia Cup 2024 Title, Defeating India in the Final by 8 Wickets
Women's Asia Cup Final: Sri Lanka Women's Cricket Team became the Champions of Women's Asia Cup T20 2024. Sri Lanka Lanka beat Team India comfortably in the Final.
Sri Lanka Women's Won Women's Asia Cup 2024 Title: The final match of the Women's Asia Cup 2024 was played between the teams of India and Sri Lanka at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium. In this match there was a big competition between the two teams. But in the end the Sri Lankan team won. Let us tell you, Sri Lanka has won the Women's Asia Cup title for the first time in its cricket history. They have also become the third women's team to win the Asia Cup after India and Bangladesh.
Earlier in this Final Match Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur had won the toss in this match and decided to bat first. But opener Shefali Verma could score only 16 runs. Although Smriti Mandhana batted well. He scored 60 runs on 47 balls. During this period, 10 fours were seen from his bat.
At the same time, a strong performance was seen from Richa Ghosh. He scored 30 runs in just 14 balls, which included 4 fours and 1 six. Jemimah Rodrigues also contributed 29 runs in 16 balls. Due to which Team India scored 165 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs.
Sri Lanka's batters showed an amazing performance in reply to the score of 166 runs. In response to this target, Sri Lanka lost its first wicket for 7 runs. But after this Sri Lanka's second wicket fell at 94 runs. Chamari Athapaththu once again played a strong innings for Sri Lanka. Chamari Athapaththu scored 61 runs on 43 balls. Which included 9 fours and 2 sixes.
After Chamari's wicket Harshitha Samarawickrama took Sri Lankan innings to the win. She scored 69 runs in just 51 balls with 6 fours and 2 sixes. With this Sri Lanka chased the target of 166 runs with 8 balls remaining.
India vs Sri Lanka Women's Asia Cup Final Match Playing 11
India: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Uma Chetry, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav, Tanuja Kanwar, Renuka Thakur Singh.
Sri Lanka: Vishmi Gunaratne, Chamari Athapaththu(c), Harshitha Samarawickrama, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshi de Silva, Anushka Sanjeewani(w), Hasini Perera, Sugandika Kumari, Inoshi Priyadharshani, Udeshika Prabodhani, Sachini Nisansala.
This was the 9th edition of the Women's Asia Cup. Team India has lost every final of this tournament. Before this, it had won the Asia Cup title 7 out of 8 times. He had to face defeat only once. In 2018, Bangladesh defeated Team India in the final. After this, this is the second time when Team India has missed winning the Asia Cup title.