Overview
- An eight-wicket victory in the 3rd T20I at Thiruvananthapuram gave India an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.
- Harmanpreet Kaur became the most successful women’s T20I captain with 77 wins, moving past Australia’s Meg Lanning.
- Deepti Sharma’s 3/18 made her the first Indian to 150 T20I wickets, completed the 1,000 runs–150 wickets double, and drew her level with Megan Schutt as women’s T20I leading wicket-taker at 151 while rising to No. 3 in women’s international wickets overall.
- Renuka Singh Thakur marked her return with 4/21 and called Kerala her lucky ground, and Shafali Verma’s unbeaten 79 off 42 balls powered the chase inside 13.2 overs.
- India’s bowling depth has kept Sri Lanka to modest totals throughout, and Chamari Athapaththu acknowledged her side’s batting struggles as India rotate combinations with a more aggressive T20 approach.