Sri Lanka 124 for 7 (Nilakshika 50, Luh Dewi 3-32) beat Indonesia 49 all out (Athapaththu 7-5) by 75 runs
Sri Lanka, too, had discovered it powerful to fight Indonesia’s mixture of spin and slow-medium seamers as they stumbled to 62 for six within the thirteenth over, however their innings acquired a well timed increase as Nilakshika countered with a trademark backs-against-the-wall effort to tug her facet to a complete that appeared about par on a reasonably sluggish floor. In the long run it proved to be lots.
Sri Lanka battle early on
Having been put in to bat on a contemporary floor, Sri Lanka had been maybe responsible of slightly complacency towards their less-fancied opponents. Repeatedly the highest order sought to search out the boundary, and again and again they failed to search out their timing.
On a wicket the place the ball was hardly approaching, the Sri Lankan batters’ tunnel imaginative and prescient targeted squarely on boundary hitting and eschewed strike rotation; there have been 19 dot balls in a powerplay that had fetched 31 runs for the lack of two wickets.
By the midway level of the innings, the dot depend had risen to twenty-eight. The scorecard, in the meantime, learn 47 for five. Indonesia, to their credit score, did effectively to bowl to their fields and frustrate the Lankan batters.
Sanjana Kavindi obtained to double-digits with a pair of properly struck boundaries, however she was the one one among Sri Lanka’s prime 5 to take action – and he or she was finally carried out in on 15 lacking an tried minimize on a straight one.
Nilakshika brings the Silva-lining
With recognised batting quick working out, Sri Lanka wanted somebody to take management of the innings, and as she has carried out so usually over latest years it was Nilakshika that stood as much as be counted.
Their seventh-wicket partnership finally ended on 50 off 36, reached concurrently alongside facet Nilakshika’s fifty – her third in T20Is – however by then she had already ushered her facet to security.
Athapaththu steals the present
In Chethana Vimukthi, Sri Lanka may need their first ever real quick bowler however on a wicket the place the ball was not fairly approaching, tempo by no means appeared like the reply. For the primary two overs of the chase, Indonesia’s openers did effectively to search out boundaries towards Vimukthi and and fellow seamer Kawya, however then Sri Lanka launched their spinners.
Athapaththu promptly castled Pangestuti earlier than eradicating Corazon and Rada Rani off consecutive deliveries in her subsequent over. Right here she missed her hat-trick by a whisker, a yorker narrowly lacking Desi Wulandari’s off stump.
She introduced herself again into the assault within the 14th and eliminated Nanda Sakarini, and he or she capped issues off by attaining her hat-trick on the second time of asking, taking three wickets off what proved to be the ultimate three deliveries of the innings.