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
Match reduced to 47 overs per side because of two rain delays
Opening game of Women's World Cup, Guwahati
The rain is pouring. The grounds staff are poised and ready. The umpire waves her hand. GO GO GO!
Excellent work, everyone. The covers - a big blue one and some smaller white ones - are on in a flash.
Play halts for rain for a second time.
Ffion Wynne
BBC Sport cricket writer on BBC Radio Sports Extra
Image source, Getty ImagesAmanjot's played so well - a really healthy strike-rate. After wickets teams talk about putting pressure back on the bowlers, it's not always easy to do that. She's looked really calm.
Amanjot Kaur runs two to bring up her half-century off 45 balls.
She was dropped on 18 and dropped again on 37 - and she's making Sri Lanka pay.
An excellent innings so far and a valuable partnership with Deepti Sharma.
Amanjot Kaur sweeps for four to bring up India's 200. She's making the most of her luck.
With a single off the final ball, she'll be on strike for the 40th over with a half-century in her sights.
With 10 overs remaining, India are 196-6, with Deepti Sharma on 33 (31) and Amanjot Kaur - who's been dropped twice - on 40 (38).
This match is rapidly disappearing out of sight for Sri Lanka.
Another lifeline for Amanjot Kaur.
The fielder, running round, made good ground to get there but fumbles the all-important catch.
Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
India have got the platform in the match now, eleven overs to go, if they score five an over they're up towards 250.
If they get 250, for me it's game over.
More salt in Sri Lanka's wound. Amanjot Kaur - dropped on 18 - finds the boundary again, guiding the ball through the covers. She's cruising on 37 from 35 deliveries.
250+ is very much on for India, who have 11 overs remaining. Their collapse from 120-2 to 124-6 feels a very long time ago (even longer ago than my lunch, which I'm regretting inhaling pre-midday).
Four singles.
Deepti Sharma and Amanjot Kaur have batted very sensibly during this partnership. Unlike some of their team-mates...
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There's nothing better than the sound of a silent stadium, or clatter of wickets. Harmanpreet Kaur was saying earlier, "there is no pressure playing a World Cup at home". I'm not so sure about that!
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Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
Image source, Getty ImagesThis over from Kavisha Dilhari has been so much better to watch just purely for the fact that there have been some boundaries.
Momentum has well and truly swung in India's favour.
Amanjot Kaur's six is followed by the return of the Sweeping Sharma Show. Four!
13 off the over. Sri Lanka need to break this partnership.
The second six of India's innings! Amanjot Kaur hammers the ball over mid-wicket.
Kavisha Dilhari, who should have had Amanjot's wicket in her previous over, does not look happy with that.
Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
It looks like there is not going to be a climax to this innings - it is just going to end.
A tidy return to the attack for Sugandika Kumari. Three singles.
Five singles off the over for India, who should be seven down. How costly will that drop prove to be?
Daniel Norcross
Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
A simple catch, shelled! It is slippy out there but Achini Kulasuriya did not address that ball well at all.
Oh, Achini Kulasuriya will not want to see that again. Amanjot Kaur skies the ball high into the leg-side but the fielder puts it down.
Do I mention that that drop coincided almost exactly with Mike Peter's return from lunch?
Henry Moeran
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
It is feeling like the sting is being taken out of the attack and perhaps it is time for Inoka Ranaweera's stint to come to an end.
Amanjot Kaur copies the Deepti sweep and dispatches Inoka Ranaweera for four. Lovely.
India's seventh-wicket pair have added 35 runs off 30 balls.
| Batter | Runs | Balls | Dots | 4s | 6s | Minutes | Strike Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rawal,caught Gunaratne, bowled Ranaweera Rawal, caught Gunaratne, bowled Ranaweera | 37 | 59 | 36 | 3 | 1 | 76 | 62.71 |
Mandhana,caught Gunaratne, bowled Prabodhani Mandhana, caught Gunaratne, bowled Prabodhani | 8 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 80.00 |
Deol,caught Dilhari, bowled Ranaweera Deol, caught Dilhari, bowled Ranaweera | 48 | 64 | 35 | 6 | 0 | 89 | 75.00 |
Harmanpreet,caught Sanjeewani, bowled Ranaweera Harmanpreet, caught Sanjeewani, bowled Ranaweera | 21 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 110.53 |
Rodrigues,bowled Ranaweera Rodrigues, bowled Ranaweera | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 |
Deepti,caught Dasanayaka, bowled Kulasuriya Deepti, caught Dasanayaka, bowled Kulasuriya | 53 | 53 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 98 | 100.00 |
Ghosh,caught Prabodhani, bowled Athapaththu Ghosh, caught Prabodhani, bowled Athapaththu | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 33.33 |
Amanjot,caught Gunaratne, bowled Prabodhani Amanjot, caught Gunaratne, bowled Prabodhani | 57 | 56 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 71 | 101.79 |
Rana,not out Rana, not out | 28 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 186.67 |
Extras, no balls 1, wides 9, byes 0, leg byes 5, total 15 Extras, no balls 1, wides 9, byes 0, leg byes 5, total 15 | |||||||
Total,269 for 8 47.0 overs Total,269 for 8 47.0 overs |
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Dots | No balls | Wides | 4s | 6s | Economy rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kulasuriya | 8.0 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5.25 |
Prabodhani | 10.0 | 1 | 55 | 2 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5.50 |
Dasanayaka | 9.0 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5.11 |
Dilhari | 8.0 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6.37 |
Ranaweera | 9.0 | 0 | 46 | 4 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5.11 |
Athapaththu | 3.0 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8.00 |
| Fall of wicket | Batter |
|---|---|
14 for 1 (3.2 overs) | Mandhana |
81 for 2 (19.2 overs) | Rawal |
120 for 3 (25.1 overs) | Deol |
120 for 4 (25.2 overs) | Rodrigues |
121 for 5 (25.5 overs) | Harmanpreet |
124 for 6 (26.6 overs) | Ghosh |
227 for 7 (43.3 overs) | Amanjot |
269 for 8 (46.6 overs) | Deepti |
| Batter | Runs | Balls | Dots | 4s | 6s | Minutes | Strike Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Perera,bowled Gaud Perera, bowled Gaud | 14 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 70.00 |
Athapaththu,bowled Deepti Athapaththu, bowled Deepti | 43 | 47 | 31 | 4 | 3 | 62 | 91.49 |
Samarawickrama,leg before wicket, bowled Sree Charani Samarawickrama, leg before wicket, bowled Sree Charani | 29 | 45 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 60 | 64.44 |
Gunaratne,leg before wicket, bowled Amanjot Gunaratne, leg before wicket, bowled Amanjot | 11 | 28 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 39.29 |
Dilhari,caught Ghosh, bowled Deepti Dilhari, caught Ghosh, bowled Deepti | 15 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 125.00 |
de Silva,bowled Rana de Silva, bowled Rana | 35 | 29 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 46 | 120.69 |
Sanjeewani,caught Harmanpreet, bowled Deepti Sanjeewani, caught Harmanpreet, bowled Deepti | 6 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 60.00 |
Dasanayaka,bowled Rana Dasanayaka, bowled Rana | 10 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 52.63 |
Kulasuriya,caught Mandhana, bowled Sree Charani Kulasuriya, caught Mandhana, bowled Sree Charani | 17 | 31 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 54.84 |
Prabodhani,not out Prabodhani, not out | 14 | 26 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 53.85 |
Ranaweera,leg before wicket, bowled Rawal Ranaweera, leg before wicket, bowled Rawal | 3 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 37.50 |
Extras, no balls 1, wides 9, byes 0, leg byes 4, total 14 Extras, no balls 1, wides 9, byes 0, leg byes 4, total 14 | |||||||
Total,211 all out 45.4 overs Total,211 all out 45.4 overs |
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Dots | No balls | Wides | 4s | 6s | Economy rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gaud | 9.0 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 37 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4.55 |
Amanjot | 6.0 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 6.16 |
Rana | 10.0 | 0 | 32 | 2 | 35 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3.20 |
Deepti | 10.0 | 1 | 54 | 3 | 37 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5.40 |
Sree Charani | 8.0 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4.62 |
Rawal | 2.4 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.25 |
| Fall of wicket | Batter |
|---|---|
30 for 1 (6.4 overs) | Perera |
82 for 2 (14.6 overs) | Athapaththu |
103 for 3 (22.3 overs) | Samarawickrama |
105 for 4 (23.6 overs) | Gunaratne |
130 for 5 (26.2 overs) | Dilhari |
140 for 6 (28.6 overs) | Sanjeewani |
173 for 7 (34.4 overs) | de Silva |
184 for 8 (36.4 overs) | Dasanayaka |
199 for 9 (42.3 overs) | Kulasuriya |
211 for 10 (45.4 overs) | Ranaweera |