Overview

• India beat Sri Lanka by 59 runs under the DLS method in a rain-reduced 47-over curtain-raiser in Guwahati, posting 269/8 and bowling the visitors out for 211.
• Deepti Sharma scored 53 and took three wickets, including the key dismissal of Chamari Athapaththu, to claim Player of the Match.
• Amanjot Kaur struck 57 at No. 8 in a 103-run seventh-wicket partnership with Deepti after India crashed to 124/6.
• Inoka Ranaweera took 4 for Sri Lanka, including three in a single over during India’s collapse, before Sneh Rana’s 28 off 15 lifted the total past 250.
• Some reports noted Amanjot’s lower-order fifty-plus-wicket feat as a possible first in a Women’s World Cup match, and India next face Pakistan in Colombo on Sunday.