While fans are waiting for Team India's Sri Lanka tour, a fierce competition is already going on in Sri Lanka. This competition is going on between Asia's top-8 women's teams, where there is a competition to capture the Asia Cup title. In this tournament, Team India made a strong start in its very first match and defeated Pakistan by 7 wickets. Now host Sri Lanka has also started with a win, that too against its arch rival team Bangladesh. The star of this victory was an 18-year-old batsman, who played an explosive innings of 417 runs 2 years ago.

This match was played between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh on Saturday 20th July in Dambulla. There is a fierce rivalry between the two countries in men's cricket, which is visible not only in the performance of the teams but also in the fights between the players. This is not the case in women's cricket at the moment but still their match is watched closely. It was expected that there would be an exciting match here but it did not happen and Sri Lanka won the match very easily.

Bangladesh's batting flopped

Bangladesh batted first in this match but its top and middle order flopped badly in front of the Sri Lankan bowling attack. Out of the top-6 batsmen, 2 could not even open their account while 3 were out in single digits. Only captain Nigar Sultana faced Sri Lanka bravely and played an innings of 48 runs. Although she also scored these runs in 59 balls, but she kept the team in control. In the end, Shorna Akhtar scored 25 runs in just 14 balls and took the team to 111 runs. Udeshika Prabodhini and Inoshi Priyadarshini took 2-2 wickets for Sri Lanka.

Amazing feat of 18 year old Vishmi

Sri Lanka also lost the wicket of its veteran captain Chamari Atapattu early, but here 18-year-old opener Vishmi Gunaratne along with Harshita Samarawickrama shared a 54-run partnership to ensure the team's victory. In 2022, Vishmi, who created a record by playing an explosive innings of 417 runs in just 128 balls in school cricket at the age of 16, scored her first half-century in international cricket. She scored 51 runs in 48 balls. Harshita was also out after scoring 33 runs, but Sri Lanka won the match by 7 wickets in just 17.1 overs. Nahida Akhtar's economical spell of 3 wickets for 12 runs in 4 overs could not stop Sri Lanka.