Overview
- An eight-wicket win in the third T20I at Thiruvananthapuram sealed a 3-0 lead, with the chase finished in 13.2 overs.
- Harmanpreet Kaur moved to a record 77 wins as T20I captain, and Deepti Sharma completed the rare 1,000 runs–150 wickets double, reaching 151 T20I wickets.
- Renuka Singh Thakur marked her return with 4/21 and called Kerala her lucky ground, while Shafali Verma powered the chase with an unbeaten 79 off 42 balls.
- Harmanpreet underscored a more aggressive template and ongoing rotation, with management set to use the last two matches to test combinations and bench options.
- Sri Lanka’s captain Chamari Athapaththu acknowledged persistent batting struggles, as attention shifts to the fourth T20I in Thiruvananthapuram and toward the 2026 event in England and Wales.