Summary

  • India win by 59 runs on DLS method - report

  • Sri Lanka struggle to keep pace - Athapaththu top-scoring with 43

  • Deepti stars with ball, taking 3-54

  • India recover from 124-6 to post 269-8

  • Amanjot (57) and Sharma (53) put on 103 for seventh wicket

  • Match reduced to 47 overs per side because of two rain delays

  • Opening game of Women's World Cup, Guwahati

Live Reporting

by Elizabeth Botcherby, Mike Peter & Maisie Gallen

  1. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Shree Charani is getting turn here. She is bamboozling these batters when it lands short.

  2. SL 91-2

    Woops, almost a wicket.

    Left-arm spinner Shree Charani enters the attack for India and Harshitha Samarawickrama offers a big leading edge from her first delivery.

    The ball balloons up and lands just in front of a scrambling short mid-wicket.

  3. Here's how Deepti Sharma dismissed Chamari Athapaththu.

    A match-winning wicket?

  4. SL 87-2

    Just a single now from Sneh Rana's over.

    Sri Lanka have scored just seven runs off the last four overs - their required run-rate has crept up to 6.34 runs an over.

  5. SL 86-2

    Deepti Sharma has tightened up now after her slack first couple of overs.

    Just a couple of singes from her fourth effort, as the Sri Lankan batters look to rebuild without their captain.

  6. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    The crowd has slightly thinned out. People come to watch their favourite players bat so perhaps that is why.

  7. SL 84-2

    The players took drinks after that dismissal, while Vishmi Gunaratne came to the crease - she starts at the non-striker's end.

    Sneh Rana's second delivery passes the bat of Harshitha Samarawickrama and bests the keeper too.

    A wry smile from the India spinner.

  8. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

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    You can see how much that means to Deepti Sharma - she gives a send-off.

    Chamari Athapaththu is fuming. She knows she has been striking it so well and finding the middle of the bat on many occasions.

  9. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    That so often feels like the game when Chamari Athapaththu is out.

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    Athapaththu b Sharma 43 (SL 82-2)

    A crucial wicket!

    The Sri Lanka captain and star player Chamari Athapaththu is gone, bowled by Deepti Sharma with a sharp full delivery.

    The India spinner's first two overs went for 23, but she conceded just a couple of singles from her first five balls here before cleaning up Athapaththu with her last delivery.

  11. SL 80-1

    Chamari Athapaththu tucks into Sneh Rana now.

    She sees a delivery that's sliding down and helps it down to the fine leg ropes for four.

    A further single to long-off brings up the fifty partnership off 43 balls.

  12. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Although it feels poised, India need one wicket and that is it. Chamari Athapaththu is going to have to bat for a long time to give Sri Lanka a chance in this game.

    If India get her, that is it.

  13. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport cricket writer on BBC Radio Sports Extra

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    Sri Lanka have a really solid platform now - Chamari Athapaththu is getting into her groove.

    All the pressure is on India to win the first match of the tournament in front of their home crowd.

  14. 6 runs

    SL 74-1

    Another six for Chamari Athapaththu!

    She slams Deepti Sharma's fourth ball over long-off, having already found four along the ground in the same area.

    She adds another single to - guess what - long-off to retain the strike.

  15. SL 62-1

    Sneh Rana rattles through a second over.

    Two runs come from it - a wide and a single to long-off from Chamari Athapaththu.

  16. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport cricket writer on BBC Radio Sports Extra

    This is quite defensive bowling and it is hard to see how Deepti Sharma is trying to get Chamari Athapaththu out bowling how she is.

  17. SL 60-1

    Four more for Chamari Athapaththu!

    She cuts Deepti Sharma away to the boundary, and adds a further single out to long-off to move to 25.

  18. 6 runs

    SL 55-1

    That's the way to bring up your team's half-century!

    A second off-break bowler in Deepti Sharma comes on to bowl and Chamari Athapaththu smacks her first ball over long-off for six.

  19. Phil Long
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Chamari Athapaththu has only faced two of the last 24 deliveries.

  20. Sri Lanka are keeping pace with India in the first 10 overs.

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