Harmanpreet Kaur and India eye Sri Lankan whitewash
Updated On: 06 July, 2022 12:13 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI
The Indian team have won the opening two games in contrasting fashion to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
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Indian women`s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur at the toss. Source/PTI
A confident India will look to complete the formalities and assert their supremacy by completing a whitewash of Sri Lanka in the third and final women`s ODI here on Thursday. Playing ODI cricket for the first time since the talismanic Mithali Raj retired from the game, the Indian team won the opening two games in contrasting fashion to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. The visitors had bagged the preceding T20I series 2-1. Chasing similar targets, India looked much more confident in the second ODI as they galloped to 10-wicket win on Monday.
India controlled all aspects of the game. It was the kind of dominant display expected out of Harmanpreet Kaur and her troops through out the tour of the island nation. After an underwhelming tour by their standards, star openers Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma finally joined the party with unbeaten half centuries.
The duo, that had struggled to build a decent partnership and provide electrifying starts in the first ODI and the T20 series, would be keen for an encore in the final game. New full-time skipper Harmanpreet has been India`s most consistent player this series. The all-rounder has shone with the bat, her innings often turning out to be the difference between the two sides.
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