By Srian Obeyesekere

Sri Lanka Women were again found wanting in an 8-wicket defeat 3-nil T20 5-match series surrender to India Women’s 115 race for two wickets in making light of the visitors 112 for 7 off the 20 after being put into bat with the managable highest score of 27 by Imesha Dulani exposing another sub standard batting performance as in the previous two games that has been the let off factor in that debilitation yesterday mainly against the 4-wicket right arm medium fast Renuka Singh and spin of Deepti Sharma 3 for 28 at India’s Thiruvananthapuram International Stadium.

Sri Lanka’s name made talisman skipper Chamari Athapaththu dug out for 3 by Deepti Sharma who had her caught by Herman Kaur as the Lankan trump card batter struggled to rediscover her batting magic that propelled her among the world greats in the game was core to the running debacle with one drop Harshitha Samarawickrama following soon after caught and bowled by Singh for 2 as Sri Lanka collapsed to 98 for 7 after 17.4 overs with next best scores of 25 off 18 balls by opener Hasini Perera, Kavisha Dilhari 20 and Kaushini Nuthyangani 19.

India’s new found heroine was the 42-ball 79 Shafali Verma who followed her Player of the Match 69 in the previous game by a 11 boundary and six onslaught though Renuka Singh’s telling 4 for 21 heroics with the ball tilted the stand out player award her way though Sri Lanka’s Kavisha Dilhari had the personal satisfaction of removing star batters Smriti Mandhana for 3 and Jemima Rodrigues for 19 as skipper Harmanpreet Kaur on 21 off 18 joined Verma in the victory thrust.

India 115 for 2 (Shafali 79*, Dilhari 2-18) beat Sri Lanka 112 for 7 (Dulani 27, Renuka 4-21, Deepti 3-18) by eight wickets.