Overview
- An eight-wicket win in the third T20I at Thiruvananthapuram secured an unassailable 3-0 lead with two matches remaining.
- Harmanpreet Kaur became the most successful women’s T20I captain with 77 wins and reiterated a shift to a more aggressive T20 approach.
- Deepti Sharma took 3/18 to reach 150 T20I wickets and became the first cricketer with 1,000 T20I runs and 150 wickets, drawing level with Megan Schutt on 151.
- Renuka Singh marked her return with 4/21 and called Kerala her “lucky place” after helping hold Sri Lanka to 112/7.
- Shafali Verma’s unbeaten 79 off 42 powered the chase as India rotate and test combinations, with some coverage questioning the prep value of the lopsided series before tours to Australia and England.