Harmanpreet Kaur opts to bat against Sri Lanka in Asia Cup 2024 final: Check playing XIs

India have won the toss and opted to bat at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla in the final of the ongoing Asia Cup 2024 on July 28, Sunday. Team India are currently unbeaten in the tournament. Harmanpreet Kaur-led side will look to repeat the same final against hosts Sri Lanka. India are seven times Asian champions out of eight so far. On the other hand, Sri Lanka are also unbeaten they had comfortable wins over Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Thailand. India did not make any changes to the playing eleven from their semifinal against Bangladesh. Sri Lanka made one change, bringing in Sachini Nisansala for Achini Kulasuriya.

What did the captains say?

Harmanpreet Kaur at toss 

We are gonna bat first, the reason is both the semis were played on this pitch, that's why. We really work hard, so today it is looking like a long batting lineup, it's good for us. They are a good side, we just think what we have to do, we have to play good cricket. Same team for us.

 

Chamari Athapaththu at toss: 

If we had won the toss, we were looking to bowl first. We have to improve our fielding and hopefully our batters will bat well. Yeah. 80 percent okay. One change for us - Sachini Nisansala comes in for Achini Kulasuriya

 

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India Playing XI

 

India Women: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Uma Chetry, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav, Tanuja Kanwar, Renuka Thakur Singh.

 

Sri Lanka Playing XI

 

Sri Lanka Women: Vishmi Gunaratne, Chamari Athapaththu(c), Harshitha Samarawickrama, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshi de Silva, Anushka Sanjeewani(w), Hasini Perera, Sugandika Kumari, Inoshi Priyadharshani, Udeshika Prabodhani, Sachini Nisansala

 

Women's Asia Cup since inception in 2004:

No. of editions before 2024: 8
No. of titles India won: 7
No. of finals India played: 8
No. of finals between IND-SL: 5
No. of finals where SL beat IND: 0

 

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