IND-W vs SL-W

06:05 PM Iocal and IST: It's time for the Indian players to pose with the trophy. The celebrations will go on as it was a comprehensive performance from the Women in Blue. They were by far the best team in the tournament and hence the result at the end of of it. Like always, it was a pleasure bringing all the live coverage from this encounter. Till the next time, this is myself (Arya Sekhar Chakraborty) taking your leave on the behalf of my fellow commentator Soumarya Dutta. 

Harmanpreet Kaur will collect the trophy and the cheque for winning the tri-nation series, here is what she had to say: Yeah definitely, proud of the entire team, especially the batters who did a fantastic job. We had a talk that if we bat first we have to put up a big score. We have played well but there are a lot of areas where we need to improve ahead of the World Cup. Yeah, our medium pacers have got injured in the last couple of months. The sports staff are taking care of them. Expect Smriti and me, the way the others batted was simply superb. Deepti’s all round effort, Rana’s bowling. We played brilliantly and we have enjoyed the conditions in Sri Lanka. We want to enjoy the moment.

Sneh Rana is the Player of the Series, here is what she had to say: Very pleased to contribute for my team. It was very hard to come here after so many months and deliver for my team. Plan was pretty simple, I stick to my plans, bowling pace off and yorker length deliveries. I had a talk with my coach and it paid off. Pretty much confident of the team and really happy with the win.

Smriti Mandhana is the Player of the Match, here is what she had to say: Yeah today after the innings I am a reluctant talker. Yeah I think that's how we mostly plan our innings in ODI cricket. We have to access the conditions, how the wicket is. They bowled well early on but later on we found ways to score runs. All the wickets has been really good batting wickets. Not great to bowl but our bowlers did a great job.

Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka Women Captain) - "I would like to Congratulate India for playing great cricket. 300 plus is not easy to chase. We were ordinary in the field and dropped chances. Our bowling unit struggled in the middle overs when Smriti Mandhana played really well. We will look to improve our fielding, catching and run out before the World Cup. We need some different coaches especially for fielding so that we can get it right. We need to improve our batting. We require the power hitters and hopefully we can keep up the performances for the World Cup. " 

05:45 PM local and IST: India Women won by 97 runs

Smriti Mandhana 116(101) | Sneh Rana 4/38(9.2)
Chamari Athapaththu 51(66) | Sugandika Kumari 2/59(10)

It turned out to be a thoroughly comprehensive showing from India Women as they defeated Sri Lanka Women by 97 runs in the final of the tri series to win the match and with that the trophy for the tri series. The Indian Women were just too good on the day and a target of 344 was always going to be a massive task for Sri Lanka. Hasini Perera was castled by a beauty of a delivery from Amanjot Kaur in the opening over but from there on Vishmi Gunaratne and captain Chamari Athapaththu built a good partnership which got Sri Lanka back in with a chance. 

Vishmi looked more fluent among the two and scored a 41 ball 36 which included five fours before getting bowled by Amanjot in her second spell. Athapaththu couldn't quite get going and despite scoring a half century, her strike rate was a matter of concern especially when Sri Lanka were nearly seven an over. Nilakshi de Silva looked good and played some fine shots. 

Just when Athapaththu started expressing herself, she was castled by Sneh Rana and that was a big nail in the coffin for the home team. Nilakshi and Harshitha looked in good touch but never managed to keep pace with the required rate and the pressure kept building. All of a sudden following Harshita’s dismissal, there was a mini collapse for Sri Lanka as they collapsed to 178/6 from 173/3. The match was almost sealed by then but the pair of Anushka Sanjeewani and Sugandika Kumari had other ideas. They put on a fifty run stand to delay the inevitable before Sneh Rana finished with a four wicket haul to hand India a convincing victory.

05:42 PM local and IST: India Women have comprehensively beaten the Sri Lanka Women in the final by a massive margin of 97 runs. Once they posted a score of 342, it was always going to be an uphill task for Sri Lanka. They fought at different junctures of the game but it in the end, it was a mountain too steep to climb. Sneh Rana bags her fourth wicket of the day and what a tournament she had. 15 wickets for the right arm offie and she will take a lot of confidence going into the home World Cup. 

48.2 Sneh Rana to Anushka Sanjeewani, TAKEN THIS TIME! INDIA WOMEN TAKE THE FINAL BY 97 RUNS and WIN THE TRI SERIES! It was flighted up and around middle stump. Sanjeewani once again danced down the track and tried to go big over long on. There was no timing and the fielder at long on, Amanjot Kaur took an easy catch. Sneh Rana ends up with four wickets. 

48.1 Sneh Rana to Anushka Sanjeewani, DROPPED! It was tossed up and around the middle stump line. Sanjeewani chipped it towards the short wicket region but Harmanpreet Kaur couldn't hold on to it. 

Madara goes for a first ball duck and Sneh Rana's continues her dream run in the tri series. The fourth time, Rana has picked three or more wickets and just one more wicket needed to seal the deal.