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Women's Asian Games 2023 Final India vs Sri Lanka: India beat Sri Lanka by 19 runs to win gold medal

Published - 25-SEP-2023 12:5 IST | Updated - 10-APR-2024 5:44 IST

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The Indian women's cricket team won the gold medal in its inaugural match of the Asian Games on Monday, defeating Sri Lanka by 19 runs in a hard-fought and low-scoring final on a challenging pitch. Facing a challenging pitch for batting, the Indian women's team could only score 116 runs for seven wickets, which proved to be enough.

Titas Sadhu gave a remarkable performance

Star of the match Titas Sadhu, who is just four days away from his 19th birthday, produced a brilliant performance. He bowled explosively in the first spell and finished with impressive figures of 4-1-6-3 and was instrumental in restricting Sri Lanka to a total of 97 runs for eight wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.

Rajeshwari Gaikwad gave India the desired success by taking the wicket of Perera

At 14/3, Sri Lankan Women got the lead thanks to a 36-run partnership between Hasini Perera and Nilakshi de Silva. Rajeshwari Gaikwad gave India the desired success by taking the wicket of Perera but the job was completed. After this, India maintained its dominance in the last five overs and won the first gold medal in cricket for India.

This came after India Women suffered another batting collapse and posted a total of 116/7 against Sri Lanka Women in the Cricket Gold Medal final. From 89/1, the team lost six wickets for just 27 runs in the last five overs. Although the pitch was not at all suitable for batting, INDW should still have aimed for a big score. Batting was challenging on this pitch, but Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues showed commendable resistance against the Sri Lankan spinners. He made a strong half-century partnership by adding 73 runs for the second wicket.

After INDW, captain Harmanpreet Kaur, Shafali Verma, and Mandhana both hit early fours. But Shefali was soon stumped. After a promising partnership, Mandhana fell just four runs short of her half-century as Sri Lanka dismissed her and Richa Ghosh in quick succession. From that point on, Indian women faced defeat, with the wickets of Harmanpreet, Pooja Vastrakar, Rodrigues, and Amanjot Kaur falling in quick succession.
 

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