The Indian women’s cricket team has once again proved its strong claim by making a 5-0 clean sweep in the T20 series against Sri Lanka. In the fifth and last T20 match played in Thiruvananthapuram, India ended the series brilliantly by defeating Sri Lanka by 15 runs. After this victory, the biggest question in the minds of the fans is what number the Indian team is now in the ICC Women’s T20 Rankings.

India’s position in ICC T20 rankings

According to the latest ICC Women’s T20 Team Rankings released on 30 December 2025, the Indian women’s team remains at the third position. India has played 49 T20 International matches so far, in which it has got a total of 12,968 points. The rating of the Indian team is 265, which keeps it among the top-3 teams of the world.

Australia and England ahead

Australia’s women’s team is at number one in the ICC rankings. Australia has scored 9,260 points in 31 matches and its rating is 299. Whereas the England team is in second place. England has collected 12,751 points in 46 matches and its rating is 277. India is still a little behind these two teams, but the distance is not considered to be too much.

India benefits from victory over Sri Lanka

India has got a direct advantage in the ranking due to the 5-0 win against Sri Lanka. Although there was no change in India’s position, the points and ratings have definitely strengthened. At the same time, the Sri Lankan team remains at seventh position even after this defeat. Sri Lanka has scored 9,741 points in 43 matches and its rating is 227.

Rest of the teams in top-5

New Zealand’s team is in fourth place, just below India. New Zealand’s rating is 253. After this, South Africa is present at fifth position with 242 rating. West Indies is at sixth position, while Sri Lanka remains at seventh position. Overall, India currently stands firmly at number three in the ICC Women’s T20 Rankings and is ready to give a tough challenge to Australia and England by performing better in the upcoming matches.

Indian women’s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur has become the top Indian to win the most ‘Player of the Match’ titles in the T20 format. He equaled Mithali Raj. Both the players have done this feat 12-12 times so far.

In this list of Indian women players, Shefali Verma (8) and Smriti Mandhana (8) are jointly at second position. Harmanpreet Kaur scored 68 runs facing 43 balls in the fifth T20 match played against Sri Lanka at Greenfield International Stadium. During this period, his innings included 1 six and 9 fours.

Harmanpreet Kaur made a partnership of 61 runs with Amanjot Kaur at a time when the Indian team had lost 5 wickets till the score of 77.

On the other hand, Shefali Verma, who scored the highest 241 runs with an average of 80.33 in 5 matches of this series, was chosen as ‘Player of the Series’. This was the third time that the 21-year-old player was awarded this title. With this, Shefali has jointly become the number-1 Indian in terms of winning the most ‘Player of the Series’ titles.

Apart from Shefali, Mithali Raj, Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma have been awarded this title 3 times each. Talking about the match, India scored 175 runs losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. For India, captain Harmanpreet Kaur scored the highest innings of 68 runs, while Amanjor Kaur scored 21 runs and Arundhati Reddy scored 27 not out.

In response, the Sri Lankan team could score only 160 runs after losing 7 wickets in the stipulated overs. For this team, opener Hasini Perera scored 65 runs, while Imisha Dulani played an inning of 50 runs. By winning this match by 15 runs, India made a clean sweep of the series 5-0.

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India Women vs Sri Lanka Women 5th T20: In the fifth T20 match, India has scored 175 runs while playing first. In this match being played in Thiruvananthapuram, Sri Lanka won the toss and invited Team India to bat first. Indian batsmen kept losing their wickets from one end, but captain Harmanpreet Kaur was possessed by the spirit of thrashing the bowlers today. He scored 68 runs at a stormy strike rate of 158. In the last overs, Arundhati Reddy also scored 27 runs in a flamboyant manner.

Shefali Verma, who was coming after scoring half-centuries in 3 consecutive matches, did not work this time, who was out after scoring only 5 runs. Smriti Mandhana did not play in this match, G Kamalini opened in her place, but she too was out after scoring only 12 runs. Harleen Deol also got out cheaply, within no time Team India had lost 3 wickets till the score of 41.

Captain Harmanpreet created havoc

On one hand, Indian batsmen were continuously losing their wickets, on the other end, captain Harmanpreet Kaur thrashed the Sri Lankan bowlers. Harmanpreet played an inning of 68 runs in 43 balls, in which she hit 9 fours and one six with her bat. At one time half of the Indian team had returned to the pavilion till the score was 77. Meanwhile, Harmanpreet Kaur and Amanjot Kaur helped the team out of trouble with a partnership of 61 runs.

In the last overs, Arundhati Reddy played a brilliant inning of 27 runs in 11 balls, in which she hit 4 fours and a six.

32 runs scored in the last 2 overs

Thanks to the stormy innings of Arundhati Reddy, the Indian team added 32 runs in the last 2 overs. In the last over, Reddy single-handedly scored 20 runs including 3 fours and a six. At one time it seemed difficult for Team India to score even 160 runs, but thanks to Reddy’s cameo innings, India was able to reach 175 runs.

Indian women’s cricket team’s star opener Smriti Mandhana is going through the best phase of her career in the year 2025. Smriti has now come very close to another big achievement by continuously scoring runs with the bat. He played a brilliant inning of 80 runs in the fourth match of the ongoing T20 series against Sri Lanka. With this he has achieved the milestone of scoring 10 thousand runs in international cricket. Now he has a golden opportunity to create history by defeating Shubman Gill before the end of the year.

A special record is on target in 2025

Smriti Mandhana has scored a total of 1703 international runs in all three formats so far in the year 2025. This figure is the highest for any player in women’s cricket in this calendar year. The special thing is that she can also hold the record of the player scoring the most international runs in both men’s and women’s categories. For this he needs only 62 runs. At present, Indian men’s team captain Shubhman Gill is at the lead in 2025 with 1764 runs.

Chance in the last match against Sri Lanka

The fifth and last T20 match between India and Sri Lanka is to be played on Tuesday. The Indian team has already taken an unbeatable 4-0 lead in the series. If Smriti Mandhana scores 62 runs in this match to be played at the Greenfield International Stadium, then she will become the highest run-scorer in international cricket in 2025. This achievement will also be considered very special for women’s cricket.

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Smriti Mandhana’s ODI performance in the year 2025 has been very excellent. This year he has scored 1362 runs in 23 ODI matches at a strike rate of 110. During this period his average has been around 62. 5 centuries and 5 half-centuries have also been seen from Smriti’s bat. Taking responsibility in big matches and giving a strong start to the team has been his biggest strength.

Smriti did not disappoint even in T20 International cricket. He has scored 341 runs in 9 T20 matches, which also includes a century. His fast start and ability to play big shots has given Team India an edge in many matches.

Shubman Gill’s year was also special

Talking about Shubman Gill, he scored a mountain of 1764 runs in 42 innings of 35 matches in international cricket in 2025. His average was 49 and he scored 7 centuries and 3 half-centuries. However, now Smriti Mandhana can overtake him in the last match of the year.

India has won the fourth T20 match by defeating Sri Lanka by 30 runs. In this match played in Thiruvananthapuram, the Indian team batted aggressively and scored a huge score of 221 runs. This was India’s biggest score in the history of international women’s T20 cricket. In reply, despite a good start, the Sri Lankan team could score only 191 runs in the stipulated 20 overs. Till now India has won all four matches of the series.

Batting first, the Indian team had scored 221 runs. Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma had laid the foundation of a big score by making an opening partnership of 162 runs. Smriti Mandhana scored 80 runs in 48 balls, while Shefali Verma played an inning of 79 runs. Richa Ghosh also made headlines, who played a stormy inning of 40 runs in 16 balls.

Sri Lanka lost despite a good start

Chasing the huge target of 222 runs, Sri Lanka got off to a good start by making an opening partnership of 59 runs even before the end of the powerplay. At one time Sri Lanka had scored 116 runs at the loss of only one wicket. At the same time, captain Atapattu was out after scoring 52 runs.

After that no batsman could play a big innings and the required run rate also started touching the sky. Only after the dismissal of captain Atapattu, Sri Lanka’s hopes of victory started fading. The situation was such that they had to score 106 runs in the last 7 overs to win. Another point worth noting is that even though Sri Lanka lost the match by 30 runs, 191 runs is its highest score in international T20 cricket.

For India, Arundhati Reddy and Vaishnavi Sharma took two wickets each, while Sri Charani managed to take one wicket.

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India has scored 221 runs in the fourth T20 match. This is India’s biggest score in women’s T20 cricket. The Sri Lankan bowling was completely destroyed, giving away 136 runs in the last 10 overs. Smriti Mandhana scored the most runs for Team India, with 80 runs. Whereas Shefali Verma scored a half-century and scored 79 runs in the third consecutive match. Except Malsha Shahani, there has been no Sri Lankan bowler who has given away runs at an economy rate of less than 10.

In this match being played in Thiruvananthapuram, Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bowl first. Indian openers Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma created such havoc that the score had reached 61 in the powerplay itself. Within no time, India had scored 85 runs in 10 overs without losing any wicket.

136 runs were scored in the last 10 overs

Team India’s score in 10 overs was 85/0. From here, the Indian batsmen showed such stormy batting that 136 runs were scored in the last 10 overs. Meanwhile, Shefali Verma completed her fifty in 30 balls, while Mandhana took 34 balls to reach her fifty. There was an opening partnership of 162 runs between Mandhana and Verma. This is the fourth time in women’s T20 cricket that there has been an opening partnership of more than 100 runs between Mandhana and Verma.

India’s biggest score in T20

India scored 221 runs against Sri Lanka in the fourth T20 match. This is Team India’s biggest score in International Women’s T20 cricket. Earlier, India’s highest score was 217 runs, which it made against West Indies in the year 2024. In this match, Smriti Mandhana became the Indian batsman who played the biggest individual innings in T20 against Sri Lanka. Earlier this record was in the name of Shefali Verma, who had scored 79 runs against Sri Lanka in the last match. Coincidentally, Shefali has scored only 79 runs in this match also.

221 runs – vs Sri Lanka

217 runs – vs West Indies

210 runs – vs England

201 runs – vs UAE

In the third T20 played in Thiruvananthapuram, the Indian women’s cricket team defeated the Sri Lankan women’s team by 8 wickets. After winning the toss, Harmanpreet Kaur chose bowling, which was proved right by the Indian bowlers. Renuka Singh took 4 wickets and Deepti Sharma took 3 wickets. With this, Deepti Sharma achieved a big achievement, she became the first Indian bowler to take 150 wickets in T20 International. No Indian male cricketer has been able to touch this figure.

Deepti Sharma created history

Deepti Sharma took the first wicket of Sri Lanka’s innings, she dismissed the opposing team’s captain Chamari Atapattu. Atapattu could score only 2 runs after playing 12 balls. After this, Deepti Sharma took her 150th T20 International wicket in the form of Kavisha Dilhari (20). She is the first Indian bowler to take 150 wickets in T20 International.

Even in men’s cricket, Arshdeep Singh, the highest wicket taker for India, has 110 T20 wickets in his name. Deepti Sharma took the third wicket in the third T20 in the form of Malsha Shehani, she bowled Shehani. Deepti gave only 18 runs in the spell of 4 overs with an economy of 4.50.

India took an unassailable lead in the series

In the third T20, Sri Lanka women’s cricket team, batting first, was able to score only 112 runs. While chasing the target, Shafali Verma played a brilliant inning of 79 runs. In this stormy innings played in 42 balls, Shafali hit 3 sixes and 11 fours. Smriti Mandhana’s bat did not work today, she was out after scoring 1 run in 6 balls.

Jemimah Rodriguez scored 9 runs in 15 balls, Harmanpreet Kaur remained unbeaten after scoring 21 runs in 18 balls. Indian women’s team has taken an unassailable 3-0 lead in the 5-match series by winning the match by 8 wickets.

Deepti Sharma becomes only the 2nd bowler to pick 150+ T20I wickets after Megan Schutt!

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Talking about Deepti Sharma’s international record, she has played 5 Tests, 121 ODI and 131 T20 matches for India, in which she has taken 20, 162 and 151 wickets respectively. The 28-year-old all-rounder also played an important role in making India the world champion, she was adjudged the best player of the tournament.

Cricket matches can be canceled due to many reasons. There may be rain, storm or angry fans may enter the field or the lights may go out. The match can be declared canceled due to many such reasons. But if we say that in one match the pitch was so dangerous that the match itself was canceled out of fear, would you believe it?

Dangerous pitch, match canceled

Yes, this incident happened in the year 1997, when the match was canceled due to dangerous pitch. That year, on 25th December, the match between India and Sri Lanka was being played in Indore. In the match, Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat first. Cracks were clearly visible in the new pitch, which made batting very difficult due to unusual bounce.

Only 3 overs of play could be played, after which the pitch was examined and both the teams and the umpires agreed to cancel the match. When the match was cancelled, the spectators became so enraged that a case was filed in the Indore court against the captains of both the teams, Sachin Tendulkar and Arjun Ranatunga. The argument was made that the players together cheated the spectators.

There was a ruckus on the pitch

The Indian team had won the first ODI match of the series by 7 wickets. For the second ODI, the Indian team had demanded a pitch with bounce covered with grass. Its purpose was to prevent Sri Lankan batsmen from hitting strokes. But Narendra Menon, who was the pitch curator, on the contrary, prepared such a pitch on which big cracks could be seen from a distance. Menon claimed that this pitch would be helpful for both fast and spin bowling.

After this the Indian team management demanded to prepare a second pitch. There was a heated argument between the team management and the pitch curator, Narendra Menon, after which water was poured on the second pitch to prepare it. The process of preparing the second pitch had not progressed much when the Sri Lankan team entered the field. The Sri Lankan team expressed strong objection to the change of pitch and after the complaint, the match referee Ahmed Ibrahim ordered the match to be played on the original pitch, on which huge cracks were visible.

What happened later on the field during the match was in front of everyone. As a result, the India vs Sri Lanka ODI match was canceled citing dangerous pitch as the reason.

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India has defeated Sri Lanka by 7 wickets in the second T20 match. In this match played in Visakhapatnam, Sri Lanka had scored 128 runs while playing first, in reply Team India achieved the target with 54 balls remaining. Indian opener Shefali Verma created a lot of havoc with her explosive batting, who scored 69 runs in 34 balls playing at a stormy strike rate of 202.94.

In this match played in Visakhapatnam, the Indian team won the toss and chose to bowl first. There was fatal bowling by India, the result was that Sri Lankan batsmen could score only 128 runs in the stipulated 20 overs.

When Team India came to chase the target of 129 runs, Smriti Mandhana was out after scoring only 14 runs. At the other end, Shefali Verma wreaked havoc and thrashed the Sri Lankan bowlers. Verma completed his half-century in 27 balls and scored 69 runs in 34 balls in the match. He hit 11 fours and one six in this innings.

Apart from him, Jemimah Rodrigues scored 26 runs in 15 balls. Let us tell you that Delhi Capitals has appointed Rodrigues as its captain for WPL 2026. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur scored 10 runs in this match. The Indian team won the first match by 8 wickets. Team India is now 2-0 ahead in the series.

Shefali Verma has also made a big record in this match. She has become the batsman to score the most 50+ scores in T20 before the age of 22. He scored more than 50 for the 12th time in his T20 career. Let us also tell you that this is the 9th win of the Indian team against Sri Lanka in 11 matches after the year 2020. Sri Lanka’s last win against India in T20 came in 2014.

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Sri Lanka, playing first in the second T20 match, scored 128 runs. This match is being played in Visakhapatnam, in which Team India won the toss and chose to bowl first. Vaishnavi Sharma and Shri Charani took two wickets each for India. The Indian team is already leading 1-0 in the series. Team India’s bowlers had bowled out Sri Lanka for just 121 runs in the first T20 match. Sri Lanka’s batting line-up has flopped in the second match also.

The Sri Lankan team was invited to bat first, which was shocked by Kranti Gaur on the sixth ball of the first over. Captain Chamari Atapattu handled the innings for some time, but before the end of the powerplay, she was out after scoring 31 (24) runs. After them, Haseena Perera and Harshita Samarawickrama took over the Sri Lankan innings with a partnership of 44 runs.

6 wickets within 24 runs

When Samarawickrama was out, at one time Sri Lanka had scored 104 runs at the loss of 3 wickets. From here the Indian bowling became so dominant that Sri Lanka lost 6 wickets within 24 runs. Out of the last 5 batsmen of Sri Lanka, only one player could touch double figures in terms of runs.

20 year old Vaishnavi Sharma bowled strongly, taking 2 wickets for 32 runs in 4 overs. Shri Charani’s figures were even better, he dismissed two batsmen for only 23 runs in 4 overs. Sneh Rana and Kranti Gaur also took one wicket each.

Very poor coordination has been seen between the Sri Lankan batsmen. In the first T20 match, three batsmen were run out, now in the second T20 match also the condition of Sri Lankan batting remained the same. This time also 3 batsmen were run out.

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