06/09Result
3rd T20I (D/N), Sri Lanka Women tour of England at Derby, Sep 6 2023
SL Women won by 7 wkts (18b rem)
Player of the Match
Chamari AthapaththuSri Lanka Women
06/09Result
3rd T20I (D/N), Sri Lanka Women tour of England at Derby, Sep 6 2023
SL Women won by 7 wkts (18b rem)
Player of the Match
Chamari AthapaththuSri Lanka Women

END OF OVER:
17 | 5 Runs | SL-W: 117/3 | RR: 6.88

  • Harshitha Samarawickrama26 (28b)
  • Hasini Perera9 (13b)
  • Kate Cross3-0-20-0
  • Mahika Gaur3-0-22-0

9:13pm: SamD: "As a Sri Lankan fan, This series win is more valuable than the men's team winning the ongoing Asia Cup. Chamari and her team worked hard long time finally they got the results." Spot on, Sam. Not much more to say beyond that. Thanks for joining us tonight. See you all soon - Saturday, actually, for the start of the ODI series between these two teams!

8:59pm: Now time for Chamari Athapaththu - player of the match, player of the series and the winning captain: "I'm really happy with my performance and my team performance. The last two tours against Bangladesh and New Zealand we were playing really good cricket. We continued that performance in this series as well and finally we won!

"My bowling unit have done a really good job today and the whole tournament. I can mention here, especially the batters, doing really good, which is how we won. We have a good head coach, good support staff - it's a new group. We always talk about positive things in our dressing room, never negative things. Sri Lanka Cricket have helped a lot; they've increased our payments and given contracts for the girls. We have 60 plays contracted in the national set-up and we have a good domestic structure as well. We can be a good team in the future."

8:54pm: Heather Knight is speaking to Sky: "I think credit to Sri Lanka, they played brilliantly in the last two plans. They came out with good plans, bowling a lot of spin, and we have areas where we need to get better. We've been a little bit off, we haven't quite been at our best and we've been punished by Sri Lanka. A few of the batters got starts today, including myself, but didn't go on. Certainly an area we can get better is playing spin; they had really good plans for us."

How's this for a stat: This is the first T20i bilateral series England have lose to anyone other than Australia since a 2010 defeat to New Zealand!

16.6
4
Cross to Madavi, FOUR, HISTORY! Sri Lanka have won their first T20i series against England! Cross bowls a full toss, Samarawickrama flicks around the corner and the tourists have secured the series 2-1! Serious questions for England to answer, but what a performance for Sri Lanka!
16.5
0
Cross to Madavi, no run, Same movement, similar length, this time Samarawickrama misses out on the heave to cow corner
16.4
1lb
Cross to Perera, 1 leg bye, Full, inswinger, Perera goes to clear the front leg but doesn't do it well enough. There's a stifled LBW appeal as a single is scrambled. Bouchier meanwhile gathers, throws and misses at the nonstriker's end! That would have been out if she'd hit...
16.3
0
Cross to Perera, no run, Cutter? Grip off a good length, surprises Perera, who plays out to leg with no real conviction
16.2
0
Cross to Perera, no run, Swing into off stump, full enough for Perera to go at, but not good enough connection to beat Capsey at backward point
16.1
0
Cross to Perera, no run, Full, just outside off, driven to mid off

Kate Cross, what have you got?

END OF OVER:
16 | 5 Runs | SL-W: 112/3 (5 runs required from 24 balls, RR: 7.00, RRR: 1.25)

  • Harshitha Samarawickrama22 (26b)
  • Hasini Perera9 (9b)
  • Mahika Gaur3-0-22-0
  • Alice Capsey3-0-21-1
15.6
2
Gaur to Madavi, 2 runs, Full, on leg stump, clipped brilliantly and saved just as well by Kemp, who makes up good ground along the legside sponge and sprawls the last few yards to save a couple

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SL Women 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st65AMCJK AthapaththuMAA Sanjeewani
2nd6MAA SanjeewaniH Madavi
3rd23H MadaviRMVD Gunaratne
4th23GWHM PereraH Madavi