Indian Women Clean Sweeps Sri Lanka As Harmanpreet Singh Shines Again

 Indian Women Clean Sweeps Sri Lanka As Harmanpreet Singh Shines Again

Harmanpreet Kaur (Image Source: Twitter)

After winning the first two matches of the series, Indian women were looking to clean sweep Sri Lanka women as they locked horns on 7 July 2022. However, Indian women fulfilled their desire as they won the match by 39 runs.

The Indian skipper, Harmanpreet Kaur played another match-winning knock of 75 runs as India completed the clean sweep over Sri Lanka. However, after this inning, the year 2022 became the best ever year for the Indian captain in terms of runs scored.

Harmanpreet Kaur scored 533 runs so far in 14 ODIs this year

At the start of this year, Harmanpreet’s selection was in doubt when Indian women visited New Zealand for the ODI series. Even, since March 2021, she failed to register an ODI half-century and had issues with injuries on and off.

But, she proved her critics wrong as she had been enjoying a good run of form in the white-ball format. She scored a match-winning 63-run knock in the fifth match of that series and since then, she continued her dream run in this format. After this inning against Sri Lanka, she managed to cross the 500-run mark (533* runs) in this calendar year in just 13 innings, at an average of 44.41. During this timeline, she also smashed four fifties and one hundred. This is not the first time when she surpassed the 500+run mark in a calendar year as she scored 505 runs in 15 innings at an average of 50.50 in 2020.

Speaking about the match, Sri Lanka women won the toss and elected to bowl first. While batting first, Indian women put up a total of 255 runs by losing nine wickets. Harmanpreet Kaur was the highest scorer with her 75-run knock while Pooja Vastrakar remained unbeaten with a score of 56* runs. In reply, Sri Lankan women failed to chase it down as they got bundled out for 216 runs only. Harmanpreet Kaur picked up a wicket also and for her all-around performance, she was given the player of the match award. Even, she was declared the player of the series for scoring 119 runs along with two wickets.

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