Sri Lanka Women vs New Zealand Women, 15th Match, ICC Womens World Cup 2025 - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, 1 run, short again, Nilakshi pulls hard, goes quickly across the turf but straight to the fielder at deep square leg. Only a single off the last ball

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, FOUR, finds the boundary again! Short ball into the body, she pulls it behind square and beats the fielder in the deep. Nilakshi making New Zealand suffer at the death

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, FOUR, fifty off just 26 balls from Nilakshi de Silva - easily the fastest of the tournament! Her teammates are on their feet in applause! Full in the slot, swipes it across the line and finds the gap between long-on and deep midwicket. 250 up for Sri Lanka as well

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, FOUR, stinker of a delivery! Slower loopy full toss down leg, Nilakshi pounces on it and sweeps hard past short fine

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, 2 runs, slower one drifting into the pads as she gives the charge, denies her the swinging room but she somehow drags it off the inside half past short fine. Back for a couple of runs

Jess Kerr to Nilakshi de Silva, no run, goes for a big slog-sweep and drags it off a thick under-edge onto pad. Was made to reach out for this slower ball which was tossed up well wide of off

Jess Kerr to Nilakshi de Silva, 1 run, slower length ball on off, leg-cutter, Nilakshi advances down and swipes across the line. Drags it behind square

Jess Kerr to Nilakshi de Silva, 2 runs, slower one floated up, Nilakshi gets low and sweeps it away through square leg

Jess Kerr to Nilakshi de Silva, wide, Nilakshi advances down the pitch and Kerr bowls it way down the leg-side. Probably saw her coming. The keeper does really well to gather this as she was up to the stumps. But it's so far down leg that Nilakshi easily makes it back before a stumping could even be attempted

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, 1 run, slower one on the pads, clipped through square leg

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, FOUR, Nilakshi continues to roll! Short of length on off, she initially shapes to scoop but then makes a late adjustment and pulls off the reverse-scoop instead. What a blinder of a knock this is already

Amelia Kerr to Nilakshi de Silva, 1 run, slightly short on middle and leg, Nilakshi mistimes the pull to short fine

Amelia Kerr to Nilakshi de Silva, 1 run, single to deep midwicket

Amelia Kerr to Nilakshi de Silva, FOUR, swept hard and the fielder overruns it in the deep! The ball was spinning across the outfield which resulted in the undoing of the fielder

Eden Carson to Nilakshi de Silva, 1 run, slow length ball on leg, turns in past the inside edge and hits the pad as Nilakshi looks to nudge it into the on-side

Eden Carson to Nilakshi de Silva, SIX, brilliant from Nilakshi! Superb knock from her towards the end. Uses her feet, gets close to the pitch and hammers it over mid-off to clear the ropes

Eden Carson to Nilakshi de Silva, no run, is that another missed stumping? Difficult again for Gaze. Length ball on off, Nilakshi shimmies down, looks to sweep but misses. There's a slight deflection off the body and that puts the keeper off. Oh the replay shows that it actually came off the toe-end and Gaze wasn;t able to hold on

Eden Carson to Nilakshi de Silva, 2 runs, darted in on leg, back of a length, Nilakshi pulls it behind square and there's a good effort in the deep to cut it off

Amelia Kerr to Nilakshi de Silva, no run, slow, loopy and wide of off, Nilakshi reaches out and knocks it to backward point

Amelia Kerr to Nilakshi de Silva, 2 runs, goes for a slog-sweep, skies it up off a thick top-edge and it lands well in front of long-on

Amelia Kerr to Nilakshi de Silva, 1 run, drifting in on middle, good length ball, Nilakshi gets low and sweeps to deep backward square

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, 1 run, pace off in the channel, back of a length, Nilakshi tucks it through square leg

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, 1 run, advances down the pitch, gets a short ball and pulls it hard to deep backward square

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, 2 runs, good length on off, Nilakshi clips it behind square and charges back for two

Bree Illing to Nilakshi de Silva, 1 run, angling in on middle and leg, Nilakshi shuffles across and glances it to fine leg

Bree Illing to Nilakshi de Silva, FOUR, smoked over midwicket! Illing bowls a full toss from round the wicket and Nilakshi dispatches it in some style. Good start to her innings

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, 1 run, where's that gone? Good length outside off, she walks across for a premeditated scoop and it balloons off the edge over the keeper. Falls short of short third and there's a wild there which allows them to get across for a single. Umpire initially called byes but there was clearly a huge deflection off the edge. Seems like the correct decision has eventually been made

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, FOUR, new to the crease or not, they're going for it. Dilhari had the same approach, and now Nilakshi too. Walks down the pitch despite the keeper being up to the stumps, gets one in the slot and tonks it over mid-on

Devine to Nilakshi de Silva, no run, back of a length on off, blocked from the crease