Overview
- An eight-wicket win in the third T20I at Thiruvananthapuram gave India an unassailable 3-0 lead after chasing 113 in 13.2 overs at 115 for 2.
- Shafali Verma top-scored with an unbeaten 79 off 42 balls to cap another emphatic chase after early wickets of Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues.
- Renuka Singh Thakur led the bowling with 4 for 21 on comeback and called Kerala her lucky ground, while Deepti Sharma took 3 for 18.
- Deepti became the first Indian to 150 T20I wickets and the first cricketer with 1,000 runs and 150 wickets in T20Is, drawing level with Megan Schutt on 151 and surpassing Ellyse Perry for third-most international wickets.
- Captain Harmanpreet Kaur said India have embraced greater T20 aggression and planned rotation, as Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu admitted batting struggles and analysts questioned whether one-sided games offer sufficient preparation before tours of Australia and England.