India Women vs Sri Lanka Women, 1st Match, ICC Womens World Cup 2025 - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Achini Kulasuriya to Deepti Sharma, out Caught by Sugandika Kumari!! This is swung away in the air, not much legs on it and deep mid-wicket runs in to complete a fine catch. Slower delivery on the stumps, Deepti wanted to get a maximum off the final ball but no pace on the ball meant she couldn't generate enough power. Deepti Sharma c Sugandika Kumari b Achini Kulasuriya 53(53) [4s-3]

Achini Kulasuriya to Deepti Sharma, 2 runs, in the air, no timing, lands safely at mid-on. Slower delivery, Deepti steps out and looks to loft, one-hand off the handle so no power behind the shot

Achini Kulasuriya to Sneh Rana, 1 run, low full toss again as she takes it on the full, mistimes it to long-on

Achini Kulasuriya to Sneh Rana, FOUR, slot balls, no balls and now a misfield for four! Sri Lanka have leaked 31 runs off the last 9 legal deliveries. Low full toss, Rana drills it to long-on. Should have been two at best because the fielder was there with the sliding save but she fumbled and let the ball escape. Jemi is pumped up in the dugout!

Achini Kulasuriya to Sneh Rana, wide, oh yes but she bowled this too wide and it is wide even though Rana moved a long way across to access the leg-side because the field changed

Achini Kulasuriya to Sneh Rana, leg byes, FOUR, Sri Lanka are losing grip! Suddenly the runs are flowing. This should have been a wide down leg but Rana couldn't get out of the way and it escaped off the boot past the short fine leg fielder. Chamari isn't happy with the bowler, wants her to sort out the plan

Achini Kulasuriya to Sneh Rana, SIX, and again! This time she took a step forward, went across the stumps to access the leg-side and flicked this slog high to just clear the deep mid-wicket fence. Again she managed to split the two deep fielders to perfection. Some glove-love between the batters

Achini Kulasuriya to Sneh Rana, 1 run, chipped in the air but Achini Kulasuriya couldn't get across for the catch. Slower delivery, Rana played early and got a leading edge that just cleared the bowler

Achini Kulasuriya to Sneh Rana, 2 runs, square drive, sweeper runs to the left and stops. Bit of a fumble but she does well to not concede the boundary

Achini Kulasuriya to Deepti Sharma, 1 run, full delivery, Deepti drives to deep extra-cover

Achini Kulasuriya to Sneh Rana, 1 run, walks and shows some intent, pulls this short of length delivery to deep mid-wicket

Achini Kulasuriya to Sneh Rana, no run, short of length delivery outside off stump, Rana looks to slap hard, mistimes to cover

Achini Kulasuriya to Deepti Sharma, 1 run, Deepti only taps it to point for a run

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, fullish delivery, Pratika plays another dot ball

Achini Kulasuriya to Harleen Deol, 1 run, opens the face of the bat and plays to the right of backward point

Achini Kulasuriya to Harleen Deol, no run, solid forward press to this length delivery

Achini Kulasuriya to Harleen Deol, no run, short of length delivery outside off stump, Harleen cuts and finds the fielder at point

Achini Kulasuriya to Harleen Deol, no run, short of length delivery just around off stump, Harleen defends from the crease

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, 1 run, full delivery outside off stump, Pratika leans forward and drives through cover

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, short of length delivery outside off stump, Pratika nicely punches it off the back foot to point

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, nice and straight attacking the stumps, Pratika defends

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, blocked

Achini Kulasuriya to Harleen Deol, 1 run, fullish delivery, Harleen drives with one hand and manages to send it past cover

Achini Kulasuriya to Harleen Deol, no run, good length delivery down leg, Harleen looks to flick and misses, gets hit on the pad

Achini Kulasuriya to Harleen Deol, no run, driven firmly but picks out mid-off

Achini Kulasuriya to Harleen Deol, no run, it was a good off stump yorker, Harleen tried to squeeze it out. The ball hit the toe-end of the bat and slammed the ground before going to the keeper. Thankfully wasn't a player review, otherwise Sri Lanka would have wasted one

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, 1 run, short of length delivery moving away, Pratika punches it to deep cover

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, FOUR, finally Pratika gets going! Slightly short ball and Pratika played a good pull shot. Waited for the ball to come and easily hit it over mid-wicket for a much-needed boundary

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, it's a firm back foot punch but not proper placement. Finds the hands at cover

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, full and moving away, Pratika drives but finds the fielder at cover

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, full delivery, Pratika drives and picks out mid-off

Achini Kulasuriya to Harleen Deol, no run, good length delivery around off stump, Harleen covers the line and defends

Achini Kulasuriya to Harleen Deol, no run, on the stumps to the new batter, Harleen defends

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, 1 run, for some reason they pushed cover-point back and Pratika threads it for a single. Could have been another dot built. Full and swinging away, Pratika plays with the swing

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, one-handed drive as some late away swing forces the bottom hand off the handle, nicely steered but again straight hand - to point now

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, full delivery, Pratika plays cover this time

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, much better from Pratika as she let this away-swinger reach her while driving. Opened the bat face and found cover-point

Achini Kulasuriya to Mandhana, no run, blocked

Achini Kulasuriya to Mandhana, FOUR, and again! These two fours would have been two fine balls to the RHB, but it's another gift on the pads for Smriti, who gleefully takes it and flicks past square leg for four more

Achini Kulasuriya to Mandhana, FOUR, that's the first real bad ball from Achini Kulasuriya. Short and down leg, oh I would love this all day kind of shot from Smriti. Rocked back, swivelled and helped the pull fine to the fine leg fence. This is exactly why a right-left combo is vital at the crease. Achini Kulasuriya was bowling a fine line to the right-handed Pratika. The moment the left-handed Smriti came she couldn't adjust the radar and fired a freebie down leg

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, 1 run, big stride forward to the drive, away swing meant she couldn't control it and gets really lucky with the edge going wide of the lone slip fielder

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, blocking nicely off the back foot to cover this time

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, full and away swing, Pratika punch-drives to cover. A diving save from Dilhari forced the Indian batters to hit the brakes and reverse their wheels

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, covers the line nicely this time to defend this swinging length ball to the off-side

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, oh got sucked into a push away from the body! Lovely away shape that started around off stump, the slingy action tricking the batter into thinking that's coming straight to the off stump but some cunning away swing dragged Pratika into a poke and she was lucky not to edge that to Anushka Sanjeewani

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, short of length delivery just outside off stump, Pratika punches it off the back foot cover

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, gentle block from the crease as Achini offers length again

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, FOUR, no doubts about this cover drive though! Bit more pacy length delivery just outside off stump, Pratika nicely forward to this one and creaming it through cover-point for the first runs of World Cup 2025

Achini Kulasuriya to Pratika Rawal, no run, that ball hardly carried! Maybe just a loosener from Achini Kulasuriya. Length delivery with a hint of away swing, should I play/should I leave kind of thought from Pratika and she eventually let it go